Another day, another atrocity beyond comprehension in Haiti.
So far, according to the ever-reliable United Nations, around 5000 people have been murdered in political violence in Haiti this year, with 184 dying over the weekend because a gang lord decided to go on a killing spree after a VooDoo priest told him that elderly people had cursed his son, causing him to die.
The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti’s spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000.
“Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area,” Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. “These latest…