A young boy killed by a kamikaze drone strike on Jun. 3 in Village de Dieu. He was among four children killed, according to Verite Presizyon. Photo: Verite Presizyon
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, June 10, 2026
Israeli military and government officials refer to it as “mowing the grass.”
The term pertains to the genocidal attacks they carry out on innocent civilians – men, women, and children – to supposedly degrade the strength of Palestinian (or today Lebanese) armed groups or parties, like Hamas or Hezbollah, living in their midst. The policy is, in fact, a war crime.
The tactic is what Erik Prince’s Vectus Global mercenary “Task Force,” the UN-sanctioned Gang Suppression Force (GSF), and the Haitian National Police (PNH) are currently carrying out in Haiti’s poor neighborhoods.
While Prince’s mercenaries have been wreaking havoc since December (which Haïti Liberté has regularly documented), the GSF got a new commander, Mongolian Maj. Gen. Erdenebat Batsuuri, on May 14, and the now mostly Chadian force announced it was launching an offensive on Jun. 1, which was when many kamikaze drones again began to blow apart impoverished, innocent Haitians in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Verite Presizyon (Truth Presizyon) is a Whatapp channel which has done a remarkable job of filming and reporting on the slaughter of civilians by drones, mercenaries, and cops in the capital during 2026.
For example, on May 8, the outlet reported that “an armored vehicle killed three people today in the [downtown] Grand Rue [Avenue Jean-Jacques Dessalines] area.” One of the people was a woman who had been shot in the leg. “While the little lady was on the ground, the armored car killed her,” Verite Presizyon reported. “This is the sound of the people’s movement saying they can’t understand why the police are shooting at people like this.”
The outlet documented the Jun. 1 drone strike on Village de Dieu, the neighborhood where Johnson “Izo” André’s Five Seconds armed group is based. One video shows the dead, mangled bodies of four men and a woman killed by a drone. In another, a mother cradles her young daughter with a gaping shrapnel wound in her leg.
“Look at the level of cruelty,” Verite Presizyon wrote. “A child is seriously injured in the leg by a suicide drone attack on civilians. These images are truly heartbreaking and show the limitless cruelty being perpetrated against the civilian population. This cannot continue!”
On Jun. 3, Verite Presizyon put out even more horrific videos of another Village de Dieu drone attack which killed at least four children, according to the outlet. In one video, a young boy lies dead on a stretcher. In another, an elderly woman with her arm blown off at the forearm lies dead. The mercenaries “cut off this [woman’s] arm with a suicide drone,” Verite Presizyon wrote. “Before she died, she said she was suffering a lot.”
The same night, another old man died after he had his leg blown off at the shin by a drone.
Another drone hit Martissant 2B on Jun. 3, and Verite Presizyon presented a video of another old woman showing where she was wounded in her upper arm.
At this writing, the attacks are ongoing. “Over the weekend [Jun. 6 and 7], the use of explosive drones, more commonly known as kamikaze drones, in several neighborhoods of downtown Port-au-Prince, including Avenue Magloire Ambroise, Rue Nicolas and Rue Oswald Durand, Portail Léogâne [the Léogâne Gateway], and the Bicentenaire area, plunged many residents into terror and panic,” reported the site Haiti Libre, which generally is very supportive of the mercenary and de facto government’s war against the Viv Ansanm (Live Together) coalition of neighborhood armed groups.
Despite the new offensive, the Viv Ansanm delivered a symbolic blow to the combined mercenary and PNH forces. On Jun. 3, Izo’s soldiers burned a much feared armored bulldozer known to Viv Ansanm forces as “Satan 2,” which has a twin bulldozer known as “Satan 1.”
“Bullets can do absolutely nothing against it,” Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the Viv Ansanm’s spokesman and leader, once remarked.
The police were so embarrassed by the incineration of one of their most intimidating tanks that they put out a statement claiming that they burned it themselves following a mechanical problem.
“During an operation that the forces of order were carrying out over three days in Village de Dieu, a heavy engine which was doing the penetration for the specialized units broke down for a reason that the police do not know,” read a Jun. 3 PNH communiqué. “To prevent this strategic material from falling into the hands of terrorist gangs, the PNH High Command gave the specialized units a formal order to destroy the heavy engine.”
Unfortunately for the cops, there were videos which showed them trying to extinguish the fire which the Viv Ansanm troops had ignited.
Meanwhile, the GSF has only 800 of the 5,500 troops it had hoped to have deployed in Haiti by October 2026, just over three months away. Last September, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had designed a complicated shell game to illegally pay for the increased number of troops (Anthony Blinken’s Multinational Security Support mission or MSS had only about 1,000 soldiers) by siphoning money for GSF logistics from the United Nation’s Peace-Keeping Operations budget (the GSF is not a UN peace-keeping operation).
But UN Secretary General Antonio said in a Jan. 28 letter to ambassadors that the UN was running out of money and “the crisis is deepening, threatening programme delivery and risking financial collapse.” He predicted that the UN could completely run out of cash by July.
Guterres is scheduled to make a one-day visit to Haiti on Jun. 16, and the UN’s budget woes will surely be on the agenda.
Ironically, the crisis is caused by the UN’s largest debtor, the United States. UN officials say more than 95% of what is due for the regular UN budget is owed by Washington — $2.19 billion as of early February, plus another $2.4 billion for peacekeeping and $43.6 million for UN tribunals. The UN ended 2025 with a record $1.56 billion in outstanding dues, more than twice the amount outstanding at the end of 2024.
By Feb. 8, the due date for membership contributions, only 55 of the UN’s 193 member countries had paid. As of the May session, the situation hadn’t improved. The Fifth Committee’s budget chair opened the May session saying “we are entering this resumed session under considerable strains,” citing the organization’s dire financial situation.
Secondly, there’s a structural trap: the UN had to return $227 million to member states from the regular budget in early 2026 — money it had never actually collected — plus $72 million offset against arrears, which significantly deepened the liquidity crisis. Guterres called this a “Kafkaesque cycle.”
Meanwhile, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reports that from January to May 2026, violence in Haiti has resulted in at least 2,310 deaths, more than 1,100 injuries, 99 abductions, and at least 699 women and girls being victims of sexual violence.
In the past, OHCHR reports have minimized the murderous role played by the PNH and mercenaries in Haiti’s death told, as investigator Travis Ross pointed out in an article in March.
Most Haitian citizens, the residents of poor neighborhoods, would probably say that the majority of killings are carried out by the mercenaries and PNH rather than the “terrorist gangs,” as the “forces of order” call them.
Posted June 29, 2026