[News] Another Major Massacre in Haiti Exposes Cruelty of Revoking TPS for Haitians

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Latest Massacre in Haiti Reveals Yet Again the Cruelty

of Revoking TPS for Haitians


By Haiti Action Committee


August 27, 2026



Kenscoff Massacre.png

Photo credit AP News 
<https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gang-attack-kenscoff-viv-ansanm-485903ee45cd5ffc1b5270b268ba31e3>


*Haiti Action Committee <https://haitisolidarity.net/>  condemns the 
wave of massacres in Haiti and demands that the Trump Administration 
stop deporting Haitians back to Haiti.*



On Sunday, August 23, the heavily armed, paramilitary death squad Viv 
Ansanm carried out another major massacre in the Kenscoff commune in the 
hills outside of 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 US revoked.


Contact your Senators and demand that they immediately pass Senate Bill 
S.4814 <https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4814>to 
extend TPS for Haitians! The House has already passed a version of this 
billH.R. 1689 
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1689>and now 
the Senate must do the same!


Click here <https://www.senate.gov/states/CA/intro.htm>to reach your 
Senator and call or send an email.


-- 
Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
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35 years of solidarity with the grassroots struggle for dignity, 
democracy and self-determination of the Haitian people! We Will Not 
Forget the Achievements of Lavalas in Haiti 
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Please donate to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund 
<https://haitiemergencyrelief.org/> www.haitiemergencyrelief.org 
<http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org> - all donations are tax-deductible 
and support Haiti's grassroots struggle for democracy





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