Press release: security incident during routine patrol in Tabarre, 22 July 2026

A one-page release issued by the Gang Suppression Force on 22 July 2026, two days after the Special Representative's second briefing to the Security Council, and published in English, French and Haitian Creole in the same file.

The Force reports that one of its units was engaged by armed elements near an illegal checkpoint while conducting a routine security patrol in the commune of Tabarre, in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, West Department, in territory the release attributes to the Kraze Baryè gang. It states that the patrol responded in accordance with its Rules of Engagement, that three armed elements were killed, and that no civilians were injured. It closes on the mission's commitment to transparency and engagement with local communities. The contact given is the Force's spokesperson, Igor Rugwiza.

The document's value in the corpus is as primary evidence: it is the Force's own contemporaneous account of an engagement in which it killed three people, against which the human rights reporting of BINUH and OHCHR and the Haitian press can be read.