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All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said.<\/p>\n
Wharf Jeremie gang leader Monel “Mikano” Felix ordered the massacre after his child became sick,\u00a0the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said, saying that he sought advice from a Voodoo priest who accused elderly people in the area of harming the child through witchcraft, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n
Gang members killed at least 60 people on Friday and 50 on Saturday using machetes and knives, it said.<\/p>\n
Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum by the port of the capital Port-au-Prince, is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti.<\/p>\n
Tight gang control, including the restriction of mobile phone use, has limited residents’ ability to share information about the massacre.<\/p>\n
Felix, who heads the Wharf Jeremie gang, was in 2022 banned from entering neighboring Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
Felix’s child died on Saturday afternoon, RNDDH said.<\/p>\n
The United Nations in October estimated that Felix’s gang numbered some 300 people and also operated around nearby Fort Dimanche and La Saline.<\/p>\n
La Saline was in November 2018 the site of the massacre of at least 71 civilians, while hundreds of homes were set on fire.<\/p>\n
Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the face of the Viv Ansanm alliance of gangs across Port-au-Prince, has been sanctioned by the United Nations on charges of planning the La Saline massacre while he was still a police officer, among other crimes.<\/p>\n
In October, at least 115 people were massacred in Pont-Sonde, a town in Haiti’s breadbasket \u00a0Artibonite region, in<\/p>\n
what the Gran Grif gang said was retaliation for residents working with a self-defense group hindering their road toll operations.<\/p>\n
The government, wracked by political infighting, has struggled to contain armed gangs’ growing power in and around the capital.<\/p>\n
Haitian authorities had in 2022 requested international security support for local police, but the mission – based on voluntary contributions – that the United Nations approved in 2023 has only partially deployed and is severely under-resourced.<\/p>\n
Haitian leaders have since called for the mission to be converted into a UN peacekeeping force to ensure it is better supplied, but the plan stalled amid opposition from China and Russia in the Security Council.<\/p>\n
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