A powerful Haiti gang unleashed gunfire upon a sizable assembly of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a neighborhood armed with machetes to expel gang members from the area.
At least seven people were killed in Haiti on Saturday, local rights group CARDH said, after a gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince opened fire with machine guns on a protest organized by a Christian church leader.
The « Fondasyon Je Klere » notes with bitterness the painful events that occurred in the Canaan area, Saturday, August 26, where dozens of Protestant faithful responding to the call of their pastor were massacred, injured or kidnapped.
At least seven members of the Evangelical Church of the Pool of Bethesda in Caradeux, Haiti, were executed while several others were injured or kidnapped on Saturday after their pastor convinced them to protest a heavily armed local gang with just sticks, machetes, and the belief that God would protect them from bullets.