According to media and human rights organizations, a massacre of more than a hundred people took place in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Members of an armed gang executed members of a voodoo cult after the gang leader’s son died of a mysterious illness.
According to the statement, the massacre took place on Friday and Saturday in Wharf Jeremy, part of Cité Soleil, the most notorious slum in the Caribbean country’s capital. The majority of the victims were women and men over 60 years old, whose bodies were mutilated and burned in the streets.
Voodoo cult as a recognized religion
Gang boss Monel Felix, alias Micanord, accused the residents of the neighborhood of bewitching his son and decided to punish all the elderly and voodoo followers for this. The Voodoo cult, which originated in West Africa, is a recognized religion in Haiti.
Haiti, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, is the poorest country in the Americas. It has suffered for years from violence from heavily armed gangs, who largely control the capital. Police officers sent from Kenya as part of a multinational protection force have so far been able to achieve little. In November, two American passenger planes were shot at in Port-au-Prince.
Source: Krone
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