Violence

Here is a picture of Jean Marie Liphete who was shot dead in Petion-Ville.

On Friday, May 27, 2016, Jean Marie Liphete, a former candidate for Deputy from Petit-Trou-de-Nippes under the banner PONT (Pou Nou Tout) was shot dead near l'enterprise AIDA. Jean Marie Liphete (born May 16, 1971) was an employee of the house AIDA, a Faculty of Law and Economics. In the last election, he obtained 43.21% of the votes, but he lost to Claude Luc Guillaume from Renmin Ayiti who received 56.21% votes. He never accepted this defeat, always proclaimed that he was a victim of unfair mechanism.

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Here is a picture of thr Administrative Complex in Verrettes that burned down.

On January 27, 2016, a group of protesters set fire to the Administrative complex of Verrettes. It is a complex where along with several other government offices, the office of BEC (Communal Electoral Offices), a wing of the BED (Bureau Electoral Départemental) is located. BED is a decentralized body of the CEP (Provisional Electoral Council). BED executes the operational plan of CEP through the actions of BEC under its dependence. Verrettes is a commune in the Saint-Marc Arrondissement, in the Artibonite Department. It is an uneventful, peaceful city which had remained unaffected so far by Haiti's political turmoil. The fire was deliberately set by some unknown assailants on the night of January 27th.

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For most of the manifestations in Haiti, the Haitian population uses tire burning. It is a generally accepted form of popular protest. This practice became popular in Haiti following the exile of Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier

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This is an example of weapon distribution. In 2010 the Haiti presidential candidate accused Haitian President Rene Preval of Distributing fire arms to gangs in Haiti in order to disrupt the election

This allegation was investigated by the Uneted Nation and no evidence of the claim was found

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