Case file · Witch trials
Vodou practitioners killed during the cholera epidemic
In December 2010, weeks after cholera reached Haiti, mobs in the Grand'Anse region killed dozens of people, many of them Vodou priests, accusing them of spreading the disease by sorcery.
2010 CE · 18.65, -74.12 · status: official
The account
Officials reported around 45 deaths. The epidemic, later traced to UN peacekeepers' sewage, killed nearly 10,000 people over the following years.
The sceptical view
The disease was introduced by an infected contingent near Mirebalais; the killings show how witchcraft accusations surge in epidemics.