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Massacre in Haiti, criminal groups kill about 200 people in the capital

2024-12-09 19:44:27Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Massacre in Haiti, criminal groups kill about 200 people in the capital

About 200 people were killed in brutal weekend violence in Haiti's capital, the United Nations said on Monday, December 9, with reports that a gang boss orchestrated the massacre of voodoo practitioners.

The killings were overseen by a "powerful gang leader" convinced that his son's illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil society organization Committee for Peace and Development (CPD).

“He decided to cruelly punish all the elders and voodoo practitioners who, in his imagination, would be able to send an evil spell on his son,” the Haiti-based group said in a statement. “The gang’s soldiers were responsible for identifying the victims in their homes to take them to the chief’s stronghold to be executed,” it added.

UN rights chief Volker Turk said over the weekend that “at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by a powerful gang leader in the Haitian capital.” “These latest killings bring the death toll in Haiti this year alone to 5,000,” he told reporters in Geneva.

Both the CPD and the UN said the massacre took place in the capital's western coastal neighborhood, Cite Soleil.

Haiti has suffered from decades of instability, but the situation escalated in February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks on the capital, Port-au-Prince, to topple then-Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The gangs now control 80% of the city, and despite a Kenyan-led police support mission backed by the US and the UN, violence has continued to escalate.

The CPD said that most of the victims of the violence committed on Friday and Saturday were over 60 years old, but among the victims were also some young people who tried to save others. “Reliable sources within the community report that more than a hundred people were massacred, their bodies mutilated and burned in the streets,” it said in a statement.

More than 700,000 people are internally displaced in Haiti, half of them children, according to October figures from the UN's International Organization for Migration.

Voodoo was brought to Haiti by African slaves and is a pillar of the country's culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and was only recognized as an official religion by the government in 2003. While it incorporates elements of other religious beliefs, including Catholicism, voodoo has historically been attacked by other religions.


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