The unknown story behind the massacre in Haiti that left almost 200 dead

All hell broke loose last weekend in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. A massacre
It ended the lives of at least 184 people, including 127 elderly men and women. The national government and the United National Organization (UN) condemned the crime in the Wharf Jérémie sector, in the Cité Soleil neighborhood.

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International media and news agencies reported that the leader of the Nicanor Altès gang, Wa Mikano (‘King Mikano’), is accused of having ordered the crime to be carried out.

“This barbaric act of unbearable cruelty cost the lives of more than a hundred men and women, mostly defenseless elderly.”indicated the Haitian Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who commented that The victims were attacked with knives and machetes.

Preliminary information indicated that the gang committed the massacre between Thursday, December 5 and Saturday, December 7, after King Mikano blamed the community for having performed witchcraft so that his son fell seriously ill. He died on Sunday, December 8.

The human rights organization CDP-Haiti reported that King Mikano went to a voodoo priest for his descendant’s illness. He told him that the elders had given him the evil eye, which is why he ordered the massacre.

Through a statement, the NGO revealed that the leader of the band “he decided to cruelly punish all the elderly people and voodoo practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of casting a bad spell on his son.”

The director of the CPD, Fritznel Pierre, reported that during the massacre, King Mikano’s hitmen “hunted down elders and voodoo followers in Wharf Jeremie (an area of ​​the Cité Soleil neighborhood) between Friday night and Saturday, and executed them before burning their bodies.”

New details about this massacre in Haiti indicate that The victims were sacrificed at the behest of a spirit from the voodoo pantheon that the gang leader served, but it is said that the spirit rejected the oxen offered as sacrifice and preferred humans.

Virtually all Haitian gang leaders believe they secure mystical protection, which “obliges” them to make sacrifices at a certain time of year to fulfill their promises to the spirits they serve, protecting them in particular – they say – from be victims of bullets.

All families with elderly people in their homes are currently under stress. After the massacre in Haiti, the grandparents remain in their homes, because they fear being murdered. Some have evacuated the area.

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