In revenge for dead son: gang leader has over 100 people murdered and mutilated

By Klaus Blume

Port-au-Prince - An armed gang has murdered more than 100 people in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, according to human rights organizations and media reports .

According to a statement from the organization Committee for Peace and Development (CPD) on Sunday, it was apparently an act of revenge by a gang boss. He had blamed followers of the voodoo cult for the death of his son.

The "New York Times" reported that the massacre was confirmed by a local resident.

According to the report, the bloodbath took place on Friday and Saturday in Wharf Jeremie, part of Cité Soleil, the most notorious slum in the capital of the Caribbean state. The majority of the victims were women and men over the age of 60, whose bodies were mutilated and burned in the street.

According to the information, a son of the gang boss Monel Felix, alias Micanord, had previously died of a mysterious illness. The gang boss then accused the people in the neighborhood of having bewitched his son and decided to punish all elderly people and voodoo followers for this.

The voodoo cult, which has its origins in West Africa, is a recognized religionin Haiti .

Haiti, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, is the poorest country on the American continent. For years, it has been suffering from the violence of heavily armed gangs, most of whom have the capital under their control. Police deployed from Kenya as part of a multinational protection force have so far been able to achieve little.

In November, two passenger planes from US airlines were even shot at in Port-au-Prince.