Latest massacre in Haiti reveals yet again the cruelty of revoking TPS for Haitians

by Haiti Action Committee

Haiti Action Committee condemns the wave of massacres in Haiti and demands that the Trump administration stop deporting Haitians back to Haiti.

On Sunday, Aug. 23, the heavily armed paramilitary death squad Viv Ansanm carried out another major massacre in the Kenscoff commune in the hills outside Port-au-Prince. The death squad attacked survivors of previous violence who were sheltering in a church in one of the villages.

Many people in the church were killed, along with people in their homes. Women and young people were targeted in particular. Community sources have provided different estimates of the number of people killed, but they range from 40 to above 70 people. Women were raped and dozens of people were additionally taken hostage; they remain captive with imminent threats to their lives.

According to local officials, this attack was announced by the paramilitary death squad at least two weeks before it occurred. The police and government authorities were made aware of the threat, but once again failed to provide protection, as has been the case in many other massacres. The population is furious over the obvious collusion between the U.S.-installed puppet government and the death squads.

Kenscoff has repeatedly been targeted by Viv Ansanm as it seeks to consolidate its control of the commune and expand control into the adjacent Petionville region of Port-au-Prince.

Other massacres by paramilitaries, armed with weapons from the United States, have likewise continued across Haiti in recent weeks, notably Gresye south of Port-au-Prince, a village in the Akaye region north of Port-au-Prince, and Dessalines and other towns in the agricultural center of the Artibonite region.

There are now 1.5 million people internally displaced by this violence in Haiti and more than 5.8 million people on the brink of starvation.

These are the conditions into which the Trump regime is attempting to deport 350,000 Haitians who have had their TPS in the U.S. revoked.

Contact your senators and demand that they immediately pass Senate Bill S. 4814 to extend TPS for Haitians! The House has already passed a version of this bill, H.R. 1689, and now the Senate must do the same!

Learn more and contact the Haiti Action Committee at https://haitisolidarity.net/.

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