ハイチのギャング、ブードゥー教徒２００人超を拉致・虐殺　国連

【国連本部（米国）ＡＦＰ＝時事】カリブ海の島国ハイチで今月、ギャングのリーダー、ミカノール・オルテス容疑者の命令による「人狩り」が行われ、２００人以上が殺害された。犠牲者の多くは高齢者で、家から引きずり出され、銃やなたで殺害された。国連（ＵＮ）が２１日、明らかにした。（写真は資料写真）
　犠牲者たちはブードゥー教に関与していたとされ、オルテス容疑者の息子を毒殺した疑いを掛けられていた。犠牲者の多くは「訓練所」に連行されて殺害された後、遺体を切断されたり焼かれたりした。
　ある市民社会団体は事件当時、オルテス容疑者は息子の病気はブードゥー教徒によって引き起こされたと確信していると語っていた。
　国連ハイチ統合事務所（ＢＩＮＵＨ）と国連人権高等弁務官事務所（ＯＨＣＨＲ）は共同報告書で、オルテス容疑者が「１２月６日夜、自身が率いるギャングの構成員約３００人に対し、残忍な『人狩り』を行うよう命じた。構成員は（首都ポルトープランスの）約１０地区に押し入り、犠牲者を家から無理やり引きずり出した」と指摘。
　ギャング構成員はその後数日間、同地区に舞い戻ってはブードゥー教寺院から信者を拉致し、地元メディアに密告した人物を標的にし、逃げ出そうとした人々を虐殺した。
　国連は、遺体の中には「ガソリンをかけられて焼かれたり、ばらばらにされて海に捨てられたものもある」と結論付けている。
　報告書によれば、６日間で合わせて男性１３４人、女性７３人が殺害された。
　ブードゥー教は、アフリカ人奴隷によってハイチに持ち込まれ、今では同国文化の柱となっている。フランス植民地時代は禁止されていたが、２００３年にようやく正式な宗教として認められた。
　ブードゥー教はキリスト教カトリックを含む他の宗教の要素を取り入れている一方、歴史的に他の宗教から攻撃されてきた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/12/24-16:58）

A massacre of more than 200 people in Haiti this month followed a gang-ordered manhunt that saw victims, many of them elderly, pulled from their homes and shot or killed with machetes, the UN said Monday.
The victims were suspected of involvement in voodoo and accused by a gang leader of poisoning his child, with the suspects taken to a training center where many were dismembered or burned after being killed.
A civil society organization had said at the time that the gang leader was convinced his son's illness was caused by followers of the religion.
On the evening of December 6, (Micanor Altes) ordered the members of his gang -- around 300 -- to carry out a brutal 'manhunt.' They stormed into about ten alleys of the (Port-au-Prince) neighborhood and forcibly dragged the victims out of their homes, said the report, authored jointly by the UN office in Haiti, BINUH, and the UN Human Rights Commissioner (OCHR).
In the days that followed, the gang returned to the neighborhood, abducting adherents from a voodoo temple, targeting individuals suspected of tipping off local media and slaughtering people seeking to escape.
Some of the bodies were then burned with gasoline, or dismembered and dumped into the sea, the report concluded.
A total of 134 men and 73 women were killed in total over six days, the report said.
- 'Targeting the most vulnerable' -
A mosaic of violent gangs control most of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The impoverished Caribbean country has been mired for decades by political instability, made worse in recent years by gangs that have grown in strength and organizational sophistication.
Despite a Kenyan-led police support mission, backed by the United States and UN, violence has continued to soar.
According to BINUH and OHCHR, since January 2024, more than 5,358 people have been killed and 2,155 injured, the report said.
This brings the total number of people killed or injured in Haiti to at least 17,248 since the beginning of 2022.
The UN Security Council strongly condemned the continued destabilizing criminal activities of armed gangs and stressed the need for the international community to redouble its efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the population.
A spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said these crimes touched the very foundation of Haitian society, targeting the most vulnerable populations.
Voodoo was brought to Haiti by African slaves and is a mainstay of the country's culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and only recognized as an official religion by the Haitian government in 2003.
While it incorporates elements of other religious beliefs, including Catholicism, voodoo has been historically attacked by other religions.