<p>Mexico City: At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child's illness through witchcraft, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said on Sunday.</p><p>All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said.</p><p>Wharf Jeremie gang leader Monel "Mikano" Felix ordered the massacre after his child became sick, RNDDH said, saying that he sought advice from a Voodoo priest who accused elderly people in the area of harming the child through witchcraft.</p><p>Gang members killed at least 60 people on Friday and 50 on Saturday using machetes and knives, it said.</p>.Syrians stroll through Assad's palaces, take furniture and ornaments.<p>Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum by the port of the capital Port-au-Prince, is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti.</p><p>Tight gang control, including the restriction of mobile phone use, has limited residents' ability to share information about the massacre.</p><p>Felix, who heads the Wharf Jeremie gang, was in 2022 banned from entering neighboring Dominican Republic.</p><p>Felix's child died on Saturday afternoon, RNDDH said.</p><p>The United Nations in October estimated that Felix's gang numbered some 300 people and also operated around nearby Fort Dimanche and La Saline.</p><p>La Saline was in November 2018 the site of the massacre of at least 71 civilians, while hundreds of homes were set on fire.</p><p>Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, the face of the Viv Ansanm alliance of gangs across Port-au-Prince, has been sanctioned by the United Nations on charges of planning the La Saline massacre while he was still a police officer, among other crimes.</p><p>In October, at least 115 people were massacred in Pont-Sonde, a town in Haiti's breadbasket Artibonite region, in what the Gran Grif gang said was retaliation for residents working with a self-defense group hindering their road toll operations.</p><p>The government, wracked by political infighting, has struggled to contain armed gangs' growing power in and around the capital.</p><p>Haitian authorities had in 2022 requested international security support for local police, but the mission - based on voluntary contributions - that the United Nations approved in 2023 has only partially deployed and is severely under-resourced.</p><p>Haitian leaders have since called for the mission to be converted into a UN peacekeeping force to ensure it is better supplied, but the plan stalled amid opposition from China and Russia in the Security Council.</p>
<p>Mexico City: At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child's illness through witchcraft, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said on Sunday.</p><p>All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said.</p><p>Wharf Jeremie gang leader Monel "Mikano" Felix ordered the massacre after his child became sick, RNDDH said, saying that he sought advice from a Voodoo priest who accused elderly people in the area of harming the child through witchcraft.</p><p>Gang members killed at least 60 people on Friday and 50 on Saturday using machetes and knives, it said.</p>.Syrians stroll through Assad's palaces, take furniture and ornaments.<p>Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum by the port of the capital Port-au-Prince, is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti.</p><p>Tight gang control, including the restriction of mobile phone use, has limited residents' ability to share information about the massacre.</p><p>Felix, who heads the Wharf Jeremie gang, was in 2022 banned from entering neighboring Dominican Republic.</p><p>Felix's child died on Saturday afternoon, RNDDH said.</p><p>The United Nations in October estimated that Felix's gang numbered some 300 people and also operated around nearby Fort Dimanche and La Saline.</p><p>La Saline was in November 2018 the site of the massacre of at least 71 civilians, while hundreds of homes were set on fire.</p><p>Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, the face of the Viv Ansanm alliance of gangs across Port-au-Prince, has been sanctioned by the United Nations on charges of planning the La Saline massacre while he was still a police officer, among other crimes.</p><p>In October, at least 115 people were massacred in Pont-Sonde, a town in Haiti's breadbasket Artibonite region, in what the Gran Grif gang said was retaliation for residents working with a self-defense group hindering their road toll operations.</p><p>The government, wracked by political infighting, has struggled to contain armed gangs' growing power in and around the capital.</p><p>Haitian authorities had in 2022 requested international security support for local police, but the mission - based on voluntary contributions - that the United Nations approved in 2023 has only partially deployed and is severely under-resourced.</p><p>Haitian leaders have since called for the mission to be converted into a UN peacekeeping force to ensure it is better supplied, but the plan stalled amid opposition from China and Russia in the Security Council.</p>