UN publishes new death toll for massacre of older people and Vodou religious leaders in Haiti

UN reports massacre committed by criminal gang in Haiti

The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday issued an investigation report on a massacre carried out by the Wharf Jérémie criminal gang in the municipality of Port-au-Prince of Haiti between December 6 and 11. They noted at least 207 people (134 men and 73 women) were executed by gang members. The leader of the gang accused the Vodou priests and elderly people of being r…

UN publishes new death toll from gang massacre in Haiti

The U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti said in a report that more than 207 people were killed by the Wharf Jeremie gang. The gang took people from their homes and from a place of worship, interrogated them and then executed them with bullets and machetes. Initial reports had put the figure at 100

Haitians Massacred For Practicing Voodoo Were Abducted, Hacked To Death: UN

The victims were suspected of involvement in voodoo and accused by a gang leader of poisoning his child, with the suspects taken to a "training center" where many were dismembered or burned after being killed.

207 Haitians killed for practising voodoo were abducted, hacked to death: UN

A gang leader, who accused the victims of poisoning his child, ordered the brutal ‘manhunt’ earlier this month.

The massacre of more than 200 people in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in December led to a real “manhunt...

UN condemns summary execution of over 200 people in Haiti this month

The United Nations reports a brutal 'manhunt,' with victims taken from their homes in Port-au-Prince to be executed. The operation was ordered by a gang leader convinced that his son's illness had been caused by voodoo practitioners.