The 2024 Cité Soleil massacre took place on 6 and 11 December 2024, in the commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the site of a massacre perpetrated by a gang controlling the area of Wharf Jeremie, leaving at least 207 people dead according to the U.N.[1][2][3] Elderly Haitian Vodou practitioners were reportedly the primary targets.
[4] 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 Vodou priest blamed the terminal illness of Felix's son on witchcraft conducted in the slum of Cité Soleil.
[5][4] At least 127 of the victims were elderly (over 60 years of age), although local witnessed attested that some younger people who attempted to intervene with the attacks were also killed.
[7][8] International news of the massacre did not emerge until 8 December 2024, which RNDDH blamed on heavily restricted internet access in gang-controlled areas of Port-au-Prince.
[7] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the government to "conduct a thorough investigation and ensure that perpetrators of these and all other human rights abuses and violations are brought to justice".