Haiti gang massacres 184 people accused of voodoo witchcraft
The BBC reports that the victims, believed to be practitioners of voodoo, were targeted after a powerful gang leader was told that his son's illness had been caused by them.
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On Monday, UN human rights chief Volker Türk reported that at least 184 people were killed over the weekend in violence 'orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang'.
The killings took place in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital.
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According to reports, gang members forcibly seized residents over the age of 60 from their homes in the Wharf Jérémie area, rounding them up before shooting or stabbing them to death with knives and machetes.
Witnesses reported seeing mutilated bodies being set on fire in the streets.
The victims, believed to be practitioners of voodoo, were targeted after the gang leader was told that his son's illness had been caused by them.
"It was the full-on atrocity basically, but given that the UN says there have been 5000 people murdered in Haiti so far this year, it's just another incident and that's probably the most distressing aspect of this."
- Adam Gilchrist
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