Operation Indravati, Crisis, about Haiti, Key Details

Operation Indravati was launched by the Government of India in March 2024 to evacuate Indian nationals from Haiti to the neighboring Dominican Republic amidst civil unrest and gang warfare.

Since India does not have an embassy in Haiti, the evacuation was coordinated through the Indian Embassy in the Dominican Republic.

About Haiti

• Haiti is a Caribbean country located on the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
• It lies between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean and is part of the Greater Antilles.
• Capital: Port-au-Prince 
• It is the poorest country in western hemisphere. 
• It is known as the Land of Mountains,over 60% of its landmass is covered by rugged, steep mountain ranges.
• Haiti was a French colony. It became the world’s first Black republic in 1804 after a successful slave revolt led by Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
• It is also the first country to abolish slavery through a revolution. 

Haiti Crisis

• Haiti is facing one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises marked by political vacuum, gang violence, food insecurity and crippling economy. 
• Haiti has no elected government since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
• The Transitional Presidential Council, a temporary body constituted by the Council of Ministers to exercise the powers and duties of the president of Haiti until an elected president takes office or 7 February 2026, whichever comes first.
• Armed gangs control nearly all of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital city and victimize communities through killings, extortion and kidnappings. 

• In October 2025, the United Nations authorized a new “gang suppression force” in an effort to improve Haiti’s security crisis.

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Major Overseas Evacuation & Rescue Operations by India

• Operation Brahma (2025): To provide rapid earthquake relief, medical aid and search-and-rescue support to Myanmar.
• Operation Sagar Bandhu (2025): To deliver humanitarian and disaster relief to cyclone-affected Sri Lanka.
• Operation Sindhu (2025): To evacuate Indian nationals from Iran following the escalation of the Iran–Israel war.
• Operation Sadbhav (2024): To deliver humanitarian aid and disaster relief to Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar after Typhoon Yagi.
• Operation Kaveri (2023): To evacuate Indian nationals from Sudan amid civil war between the Sudanese Army and paramilitary forces.
• Operation Dost (2023): To aid Syria and Turkey, after the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes devastated both countries.
• Operation Ganga (2022): To evacuate Indian students and citizens stranded in Ukraine amid Russia-Ukraine war.