"The people of Haiti are going through hell today," said Pierre Esperance, director of the independent National Human Rights Defense Network in Port-au-Prince. "This massacre is yet another example of the disregard for human life and the unchecked impunity."
The transitional government described the victims as "mainly defenseless old people" and promised to deploy "the State's repressive machine" to bring "the authors and accomplices" to justice.
Violence in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation has spiraled since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Armed gangs control an estimated 85 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Five thousand people have been killed in Haiti this year, U.N. human rights commissioner Volker Türk said Monday. The weekend killings were the second major massacre since the security mission was deployed in June.
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