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2024 Cité Soleil Massacre
The 2024 Cité Soleil massacre took place on 6 and 7 December 2024, in the commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This massacre was perpetrated by the Wharf Jeremie gang, leaving at least 207 people dead according to the United Nations Security Council, United Nations. Elderly Haitian Vodou practitioners were the primary targets. The death toll of 207 fatalities makes this massacre the most deadly gang incident in Haiti in 2024. Attack According to the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), Monel "Mikano" Felix, leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang, ordered the attack on elderly practitioners of Haitian Vodou after a Oungan, Vodou priest blamed the terminal illness of Felix's son on witchcraft conducted in the slum of Cité Soleil. On Friday, 6 December 2024, gang members affiliated with Felix killed at least 60 people, and more than 50 individuals were killed the following day when Felix's child died. The killings were carried out with machetes, other knives, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil (; ; English: ) is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty. The area is generally regarded as one of the poorest and most dangerous areas of the Western Hemisphere and it is one of the biggest slums in the Northern Hemisphere. The area has virtually no sewers and has a poorly maintained open canal system that serves as its sewage system, few formal businesses but many local commercial activities and enterprises, sporadic but largely unpaid for electricity, a few hospitals, and two government schools, ''Lycée Nationale de Cité Soleil'', and École Nationale de Cité Soleil. For several years until 2007, the area was ruled by a number of gangs, each controlling their own sectors. Government control was reestablished after a series of operations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
