Almost 200 massacred in Haiti as Vodou practitioners reportedly targeted

[Coventina]

About 200 people were killed in violence in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, many in a massacre in which a gang boss reportedly targeted Vodou practitioners.

The killings of at least 110 people were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil organisation the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD).

“He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and Vodou practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son,” a statement from the Haiti-based group said. “The gang’s soldiers were responsible for identifying victims in their homes to take them to the chief’s stronghold to be executed.”


The UN rights commissioner, Volker Türk, said at least 184 people had died over the weekend. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people,” he told reporters in Geneva.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/09/voodoo-haiti-massacre

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I mourn my vodouyizan brothers and sisters.

[Deep State Witch]

1. Awful

This is awful.

[Coventina]

2. kicking. For those of us who practice folkways, this is so personally upsetting.

[electric_blue68]

3. A couple of decades back the African Museum in DC had a whole exhibit on Voodum. It was so interesting!...

There was a heck of a lot of information on the powers, why's of each diety, ways of honoring them, etc Way more nuanced, and positive, than the average, mostly negative description people generally espose.