December 5, 2025
The latest UN (BINUH) report reveals an apocalyptic situation: between July and September 2025, 1,247 people were killed and 710 injured in armed clashes across the country. These figures reflect the state’s glaring failure to curb gang expansion despite repeated promises.
Nearly 61% of victims died during police operations, evidence of an uncontrolled security strategy. Gangs, responsible for a third of the deaths, dominate entire territories, while self-defense groups, left without supervision, also commit abuses.
The capital is the epicenter of the disaster. Delmas, Turgeau, Carrefour-Feuilles, and the Route de l’Aéroport have become battlegrounds where police and gangs fight relentlessly while the government appears powerless.
The violence is spreading to Artibonite and the Central Plateau. BINUH reports increased rape cases, use of explosive drones, and the recruitment of children into armed groups—realities the authorities continue to downplay.
The UN calls for prosecution of 79 police officers involved in extrajudicial killings and demands urgent reform of the PNH. It also insists on operationalizing the judicial units announced months ago but still inactive due to lack of political will.
With 1.4 million Haitians already internally displaced, the international community warns that Haiti risks reaching a point of no return, where the state—hollowed out of authority—becomes merely a spectator of its own collapse.
