At least 110 elderly people were killed in the Wharf Jeremie sector of Cité Soleil, with machetes and knives, in a massacre that began Friday and continued Saturday according to the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH).

This massacre was allegedly the result of revenge by Micanor Altes alias "Wa Mikanò" leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang (which also operates around Fort Dimanche and La Saline), convinced by a voodoo priest that elderly people in the area practicing witchcraft had cast a deadly spell on his dying son and were responsible for the condition, his son died Saturday afternoon...

As a result, elderly people suspected of witchcraft were reportedly targeted, the vast majority of victims were over 60 years old according to the RNDDH.

To be continued...

TB/ HaitiLibre