The World - News from Aug. 30, 1987

More than 200 Haitians were killed and 100 were wounded in the July 23 massacre in the remote farming town of Jean Rabel, an investigating commission found. The commission’s report said a longstanding land dispute had sparked the unrest, in which a Roman Catholic Church-led agrarian reform group, Tet Ansamn, attacked and killed 10 people before it was surrounded. Hundreds of the group’s members were then killed or injured in what was but the latest violent incident between Tet Ansamn and a group that includes the area’s major landowners. At the time of the massacre, conflicting reports from the poor region, 150 miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince, estimated that 30 to 235 people had died.