Occupation Through Humanitarian Front: The Dominican army? Two people on the Ezili Network Newsletter list sent me the breaking news that the Dominican Republic army sent 1200 military troops to help the Matthew Hurricane victims. (See, Deployment of 1200 Dominican troops to Haiti; L’aide dominicaine est-elle une gifle pour le peuple Haïtien?; and, Haiti sectors […]
Posts tagged Apartheid in the Dominican Republic
How Big Business Fuels Haitian-Dominican Tensions
1. Intro to this post – Corrupt Dominican Rulers, Stop Mass Deportations: No to Apartheid and civil genocide. 2. In this video we see Haiti women merchants fleeing the Dominican Republic. 3. Ezili Dantò interviewed on HuffPost Live segment with Marc Lamont Hill on Dominican denationalization, June 16, 2015. 4. Mark Steiner Show interview with […]
10,000 Haitians protest DR mistreatment and lynching
Brief Summary: In 1937, in a systematic campaign of extermination, the Dominican Republic slaughtered 30,000 Haitians in only five days. The Haitians were massacred in the most horrific ways by Dominican soldiers and civilians wielding machetes, bayonets and rifles. No Haitian or dark-skinned Dominican suspected of being Haitian was spared — women and children were […]
Denounce and boycott Dominic Republic for making racism legal
“The Dominican Republic Constitutional Court ruling to strip the nationality of Haitian descendants going back eight decades is legally absurd, blatantly racist and violates basic laws of fundamental fairness and human rights.” — Ezili Dantò of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ( “HLLN”) End Legal Apartheid in the Dominican Republic “The President of the Dominican […]