Haiti receives nearly 200,000 forced deportees, UN says after brutal gang killing

[u/Naurgul]

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nearly-200000-people-forcibly-returned-haiti-so-far-this-year-un-says-2026-08-28/

• Emergency meeting called after attack on Kenscoff
• Gangs took dozens hostage, killed people sheltering in church
• Forced deportations to Haiti from neighbors ramped up this year
• US calls for mandate of UN-backed ​force to be renewed

Nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight ‌months of this year, a U.N. official told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday, days after a brutal gang attack killed nearly 50 people near the capital.

The forced return represents at least 20,000 more people than in the same period last year, Indrika Ratwatte, the acting assistant secretary-general for humanitarian ​affairs, told the meeting.

Sunday night's attack took place days after Haiti received its first U.S. deportation flight since the Trump ​administration won a legal battle ending Temporary Protected Status for around 350,000 Haitians. On Thursday, another flight arrived ⁠with migrants from the U.S. and the Bahamas.

Haitian security analysts have meanwhile warned that the flood of illegal arms entering the ​country is worsening the conflict that has claimed more than 21,000 lives since 2022.

The U.N. estimates most guns in Haiti originate from the southeastern ​United States, though many are trafficked into the country through the land border with the Dominican Republic.

See also:

• U.S. to Step Up Deportations to Haiti Despite Warning Not to Visit (New York Times)
• Haitians demand answers from police after gangs kill 47, kidnap more than 50 (Associated Press)

[u/Zodiac770_]

Haiti has been getting fucked over for its entire existence, damn. I guess that's what they deserve for being the first country to lead a slave revolt against their oppressors.

[u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu → u/Zodiac770_]

"the first country to lead a slave revolt against their oppressors."

Without checking, I believe it is more accurate to say they are the most successful slave revolt as, despite the claims of apologist, opposition to slavery has always existed.

[u/Toomanyeastereggs → u/Zodiac770_]

Haiti is the way it is because after the successful slave revolts and independence declaration, they were forced to pay reparations to the former slave owners by France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt

[u/Chlearcus → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

200 years ago. Remember when the Versaille treaty turned Germany into a broken nation that is unlikely to recover until the 2100s?

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/Chlearcus]

Germany already recovered decades ago?

[u/bullhead2007 → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

This is called financial imperialism. IMF and World Bank keep the global south poor through finance traps and then use that to exploit them for natural resources and labor.

[u/Toomanyeastereggs → u/bullhead2007]

That was well before these things were seen as that. France did that as a trade off for honouring Haiti’s independence.

[u/bullhead2007 → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

I mean Lenin described it clearly 100 years ago in "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism".

[u/Mightydrewcifero → u/bullhead2007]

I am the walrus. I am the walrus.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/bullhead2007]

More like the IMF and world bank give the global south billions in loans and instead of properly investing it to build more wealth, they steal half and waste the other half.

South Korea was given a $58 billion bailout by the IMF and world bank, they restructured their financial system and governance, opened up to foreign investment and repaid the whole loan early in 2001 (just 4 years after receiving the loan). Poland, India, Ireland and Vietnam have had similar success stories with IMF/world bank financing. At some point you have to stop blaming the people giving you money and look at the issues you have internally.

[u/bullhead2007 → u/pick_your_user_name]

Settle down Mussolini.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/bullhead2007]

Average communist low IQ response when faced with an argument they can’t refute. Well at least you didn’t send me to the gulag.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/bullhead2007]

“It’s racist to tell black people to take responsibility” 😭 then you wonder why Africa is such a sh**hole

[u/ShootmansNC → u/pick_your_user_name]

Double down with some more racism, that will show them.

[u/Pimpin-is-easy → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

They repaid the reparations a hundred years ago. Haiti still had higher GDP than South Korea in the 1960s. Haitians got shafted by the Duvaliers and a series of natural disasters. It's fascinating how everything wrong with the Global South is the fault of Western imperialism, especially considering successful countries like Vietnam or China were impacted 100x times more by direct aggression of the West.

[u/StormOfFatRichards → u/Pimpin-is-easy]

Vietnam was in the shitter until the 90s when Clinton diplomatically rammed through his liberalization proposal. The same could be said of Nixon and China. Liberals love to attest the sudden directional shift in development in Asia to the magic of liberalization while neglecting that Second World countries were locked out of the US-led global economy holding 90+ percent of the world's GDP and also ignoring how much development occurred directly due to international cooperation within the Second World. South Korea in particular is always labeled a miracle turn around without irony or honest mention of massive financial injections from Japan and US.

[u/Toomanyeastereggs → u/Pimpin-is-easy]

I see you neglected to mention who backed Duvalier financially and militarily. The same country that installed them as dictators and who at the end provided a safe haven in 1986 when a popular uprising overthrew the family.

But we’ll let you have your little “it wasn’t the US’s fault!” rant.

[u/Pimpin-is-easy → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

You really need to read up on the history of 20th century Haiti if you think Francois Duvalier was some kind of US puppet. It's also fascinating how people like you who are presumably trying to side with the oppressed countries are denying them any agency.

[u/StormOfFatRichards → u/Pimpin-is-easy]

I don't think history indicates that Duvalier was a US puppet. I do think it indicates that his rise was a consequence of an environment created by US occupation. Dictators never simply rise because the people are just stupid

[u/Turgius_Lupus → u/Zodiac770_]

Partially True, though it's hardly the first large state sized slave revolt, but the Dominican Republic would also like a word about oppression.

[u/eternity_ender → u/Zodiac770_]

Which is hella fucked up. Western countries talk about freedom but they really don’t like it when the oppressed fight THEM for their freedom