Micanor Altes, aka Wa Mikano or Monel Felix, a local gang leader in Haiti’s Wharf Jeremie, executed the worst massacre of Voodoo practitioners in the country. The Altes gang killed over 180 people, mostly aged above 60, who practiced voodoo. The number of victims has not been officially verified. The victims were shot, mutilated, and burned on the streets of Wharf Jeremie.
Reportedly, the slaughter was planned after the gang leader consulted a houngan, voodoo priest who accused the elders of the death of his son via black magic. This is not the first time the gang was involved in violence against the voodoo community. In 2021, the Altes gang murdered 12 elderly women over accusation of witchcraft. According to the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights, since 1986, over 1000 voodoo practitioners have been killed in the country.
The United Nations Human Rights organization has condemned the violence and massacre perpetuated by the gang in Haiti. The UNHCR suggested stemming the flow of arms in countries like Sudan, Myanmar, and Haiti.
Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitionershttps://t.co/9B38v1dml0 pic.twitter.com/mU6LfhyVWx
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 10, 2024
#UPDATE Close to 200 people were killed in brutal weekend violence in Haiti’s capital, the United Nations said on Monday, with reports that a gang boss orchestrated the slaughter of voodoo practitioners ➡️ https://t.co/gVXz60uSZQ pic.twitter.com/gTCcxD60ar
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 9, 2024
A Haiti gang boss ordered the killing of at least 110 people he said used voodoo to cause his son’s illness. https://t.co/ifGWvSfHsN
— DW News (@dwnews) December 9, 2024
#Haiti Nel fine settimana una nuova strage, 184 persone, membri di una comunità voodoo di Port-au-Prince, sono stati uccisi su ordine di un potente capo di una gang locale.
Di Fabrizio Noli #GR1 pic.twitter.com/xjtzIt66bd
— Rai Radio1 (@Radio1Rai) December 10, 2024
Haiti’s death toll this year has hit startling levels after gangs ordered the revenge killing of at least 184 people over the weekend in the nation’s capital https://t.co/hecG4war66
— Bloomberg (@business) December 9, 2024
https://x.com/UN_News_Centre/status/186618350605894483
Voodoo or Vodou in Haiti emerged from a syncretism between tardional practices of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism, which is now followed by a majority of Haitians. There’s an old adage in Haiti that the island county is 85% Catholic, 15% Protestant, and 100% Voodoo.
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