National Council of Haitian Voodoo
The National Council of Haitian Voodoo ( Haitian Konfederasyon Nasyonal Vodou Ayisyen , short: KNVA ) is a civil organization from Haiti that wants to protect the practices of voodoo from persecution and defamation. The chair was held by Max Beauvoir, who was also a houngan of voodoo. He founded the organization in 2005 as Federasyon Nasyonal Vodou Ayisyen and renamed it in 2008. After Beauvoir's death on September 12, 2015, Alcénat Zamor became his successor on December 10, 2015.
The organization complained that in the wake of the cholera epidemic in Haiti from 2010 onwards, 45 voodoo priests were killed and burned by the mob in the villages around Jérémie because they were held responsible for the outbreak of cholera .
Web links
- Vodou Haiti. In: Konfederasyon Nasyonal Vodou Ayisyen. Retrieved December 28, 2010 (Haitian, Creole).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans-Ulrich Dillmann : Murdered and burned. In: the daily newspaper . December 27, 2010, accessed December 28, 2010 .
- ^ Passing away of the New Grand Chief Voodoo of Haiti. Haiti Libre dated December 31, 2015