More than 180 people were killed in Haiti’s capital on December 7 and 8, 2024 as a powerful warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the United Nations and Haitian human-rights groups said Monday.  Gang boss Monel Felix directed his followers to kill residents with guns, knives and machetes after he was advised by a voodoo priest that elderly people practicing sorcery had caused his son to be stricken with a fatal sickness, the National Human Rights Defense Network, a Haitian rights group, said in a report. The ill child died Saturday December 8  as Felix’s gang carried out the killings, the group said. 

Excerpt from Kejal Vyas, Haiti Gangs Kill More Than 180 Mostly Elderly People in Capital, WSJ, Dec. 9, 2024