Over 200 killed in Haiti’s Cite Soleil massacre, UN report finds
Reuters At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti’s portside neighbourhood of Cite Soleil earlier this month, the United Nations said in a report on Monday, revising up a death toll it initially estimated at 187. In a new report on the massacre, the UN Office of the […]
Haiti gang massacres around 180 people, targeting elderly
Reuters Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil area, Haiti’s Prime Minister’s office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft. “A red line has been crossed,” the office said in a statement, […]
Haiti gang massacres at least 110 people in Cite Soleil, rights group says
Mexico City Reuters At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child’s illness through witchcraft, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said on Sunday. All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said. Wharf […]