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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Haiti: 13.7 per 100,000

Last year, Haiti saw its worst violence in decades, as gangs ruled the country in the aftermath of the assassination of the country's president.

The Caribbean nation was on track for 1,630 murders in 2021, an 18 percent increase from 2020, according to preliminary data from the Intelligence and Operations Center (Centre de Renseignement et d'Opération) of Haiti's National Police (Police Nationale d'Haiti) and the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). The country's projected homicide rate of 13.7 per 100,000 people stands as the worst in recent years.

The July killing of President Jovenel Moïse, followed by a devastating earthquake, left the country reeling. Powerful and violent criminal gangs, which have come to control upwards of 60 percent of the territory around the capital of Port-au-Prince, choked off aid and fuel deliveries, blockading the country's roads and ports. Meanwhile, a gang abduction of 17 missionaries put a spotlight on the explosion of kidnappings in the country.

Violence had already picked up before the president's assassination, when gunmen shot and killed at least 19 people in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince, according to reports from the National Human Rights Defense Network (Réseau National de Défense des Droits de l'Homme - RNDDH). Journalist Diego Charles and political activist Marie Antoinette Duclaire were among those murdered.

Between January and September, some 1,200 people were killed.

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