In 1916, the U.S. military started a Haitian army that would later become the Garde d'Haiti. Beginning with the Caco Wars, during the US occupation, and continuing until the 1990s, the Haitian army was implicated in a number of human rights abuses against the Haitian people.
In 1916, the U.S. military created a Haitian military unit that would eventually transform into the Garde d'Haiti. The Haitian army was involved in numerous human rights transgressions from the Caco Wars onwards and continued to be implicated until the 1990s.