The following is a list ofmassacres that have occurred inHaiti, following the end of theHaitian Revolution inSaint-Domingue which declared its independence fromFrance on 1 January 1804 and became the world's first and oldestblack-led republic in theAmericas, the firstCaribbean state and the firstLatin American country as a whole in theWestern Hemisphere after theUnited States (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taíno genocide | 1493 – 1550 | All across the island ofHispaniola | 60,000 to 1,000,000 | After the arrival ofChristopher Columbus in 1492 which led to the Genocide of Taíno population through diseases, starvation, forced labor, abuse and neglect over 80–90% of every Taíno people killed |
| Jaragua massacre | July 1503 | Jaragua,Hispaniola | unknown | Killing of Indigenous natives from the town of Xaragua on the island of Hispaniola |
| 1804 Haiti massacre | February 1804 – 22 April 1804 | All across the country | 3,000 to 5,000 | Genocide of Haiti'swhite population on the orders of the Haitian black generalJean-Jacques Dessalines.[1] |
| Les Cayes massacre | 6 December 1929 | Marchaterre,Les Cayes | 12-22 | United States Marine Corps troops fire upon a group of 1,500 Haitians inLes Cayes who were protesting against theUnited States occupation of Haiti |
| Fignolists massacre | 16-17 June 1957 | Haiti | unknown | After Kébreau's coup against Daniel Fignolé, the Haitian army massacred an unknown number of supporters of the deposed president.[2][3][4] |
| Massacre of 26 of April 1963 | 26 April 1963 | Port-au-Prince | 73 | Assassinations and arrests of dozens of alleged opponents of theDuvalier dictatorship and their families, mostly soldiers, before he declared himself "president for life" the following year.[5] |
| Massacre of the peasants of Mapou | July and August 1964 | Arrondissement of Belle-Anse, Southeast Haiti | 300-600 | In response to an incursion by 15 anti-Duvalier militants of the FARH (Forces Armées Révolutionnaires d’Haïti) on June 29, the Haitian army, the militia, the paramilitary forces, death squads and the secret police known as the Tonton Macoutes (Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale, VSN) killed several hundred residents of the towns of Thiotte, Grand-Gosier, Belle-Anse (Saltrou) and Anse-a-Pitres on the orders of the Haitian dictatorFrançois Duvalier (Papa Doc). The largest numbers of killings occurred in Mapou, a section of Belle-Anse, including at least 45 members of the Madoumbe family. Nineteen members of the family Fandal were shot, mainly in Thiotte. Government forces never successfully engaged the rebels, who abandoned their efforts in August 1964. Arbitrary executions continued to be frequent through 1965.[6][7] |
| Jérémie Vespers | August through October 1964 | Jérémie, Grand Anse, Haiti | 27 | All members of several Jeremie families were executed in retaliation for the attempted guerrilla incursion in August by 13 members of "Jeune Haiti." Children and elderly people were amongst those murdered by the army, the secret police, private militia and other elements of François Duvalier dictatorship. |
| Fort Dimanche massacre | 26 April 1986 | Fort Dimanche, Port-au-Prince | 11-15[8][3] | Soldiers opened fire on demonstrators during a mass in memory of the victims of the 1963 massacre in front of Fort Dimanche facilities in Port-au-Prince, which caused numerous victims. |
| Jean-Rabel massacre | 23 July 1987 | Jean-Rabel | 139-200[9][3] | Battle between wealthy landowners and a land-reform group |
| Haitian general election, 1987 | November 1987 | All across the country | 30-300.[10] | Attacks on voters.[10] |
| St. Jean Bosco massacre | 11 September 1988 | Port-au-Prince | 13-150.[3][11] | Politically motivated attack on a church service, which was being led by future-PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide, who was a priest at the time.[12] |
| Pétionville bombing | 5 December 1990 | Pétion-Ville,Ouest Port-au-Prince | 5-7 | [13][14][15][16] |
| Raboteau massacre | 22 April 1994 | Gonaïves | 8-15[17] | Massacre of civilian demonstrators.[18] |
| 2018 Port-au-Prince massacre | 13–18 November 2018 | La Saline,Port-au-Prince | 71 | Massacre of civilians by masked men[19] |
| Croix-des-Bouquets jailbreak | 25 February 2021 | Croix-des-Bouquets,Ouest | 26 | More than 400 prisoners escaped during thejailbreak |
| Bel Air massacre | 27 August 2020 - 15 May 2021 | Belair, Port-au-Prince | 81 | 16 wounded |
| Battle of Plaine du Cul-de-Sac | 24 April and 6 May 2022 | Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, Port-au-Prince | 200 | Clashes broke out between the400 Mawozo gang and the Chen Mechan gang, Nearly 200 people were killed, many of whom were civilians. |
| 2022 Port-au-Prince gang battles | 8-9 July 2022 | Port-au-Prince | 89 | Outbreak of gang violence occurred in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, leaving 89 people dead and over 74 injured |
| 2022 Cabaret attack | 28-29 November 2022 | Cabaret | 20+ | 20 people were killed by armed gangs in the town ofCabaret, a suburb of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. |
| 2024 Pont-Sondé attack | 3 October 2024 | Pont-Sondé,Artibonite department | 115+ | Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, killing 115+ people and seriously injuring 50 others |
| 2024 Cité Soleil massacre | 6-7 December 2024 | Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince | 207[20] | Massacre of elderly practitioners of Haitian Vodou. |
| Labodrie massacre | 11-12 September 2025 | Labodrie,Arcahaie | 50+[21] | Massacre of Labodrie village residents by Viv Ansanm militants |
