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Around December 11, for instance, the UN noted that the gangs killed more than 70 people near the town of Petite-Riviere de l’Artibonite, and vigilante groups killed 67 people, many of them assumed to ...
Groups of Haitian vigilantes fighting gangs are allegedly committing the same abuses they are claiming to fight against, ...
During such incidents, victims are mutilated with machetes, stoned, decapitated, burned alive or buried alive, the report said, while noting that not even children have been spared.
Haiti's gangs have crossed a "red line", after allegedly killing at least 184 people they suspected of witchcraft. Gang leader Micanor Altès is said to have ordered the knife-and-machete ...
A Haitian gang leader reportedly ordered the murder of elderly people based on advice from a voodoo priest, sparking a massacre in Port-au-Prince.
More than 180 people were killed in Haiti’s capital as a powerful warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the ...
A Haitian gang leader ordered more than 110 people to be massacred for “ witchcraft ” after his child got sick and later died over the weekend, a human rights group reported.
American Airlines is halting flights to Haiti indefinitely, a move that comes as the Caribbean nation faces growing gang violence and unrest.
Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for ...
Three days after the armed and machete-wielding brigade members invaded Préval, members of another self-defense brigade headed by a man named “BenBenn” stormed a customs office east of Port ...
The former mayor of a town in Haiti has been found guilty in federal court of lying on his U.S. visa application about rights abuses committed in his country.
A former Haitian mayor was sentenced to nine years in prison after lying about violent killings and assaults on his visa application.