Dominican Republic Demands Haiti Apology for Deportations Slam
Dominican Republic Demands Haiti Apology for Deportations Slam
Published 15 July 2015 (11 hours 21 minutes ago)
The OAS mission looking into the migration situation between Haiti and the Dominican Republic will deliver a report before year-end.
The Dominican Republic is demanding that Haiti apologize for hurling strong comments at the Dominican government over its controversial immigration immigration policy, refusing to resume dialogue with Haiti until a formal apology is received, Prensa Latina reported Tuesday.
Dominican authorities have taken offense to comments made by Haitian President Michel Martelly and Foreign Minister Lener Renauld before the Organization of American States last week, when they condemned the Dominican Republic for treating Haitians inhumanely and urged the country to “come to its senses.”
“Under no circumstances can we accept that the image of the Dominican Republic is affected, because we are a country that has morals, respect, and at the same time has exchanges with the international community, so we can not allow unfounded accusations devoid of legal basis against us,” said Dominican Vice-Minister of the Presidency Luis Henry Molina, according to Prensa Latina.
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The massacre that marked Haiti-Dominican Republic ties
By Nick Davis
BBC News, Caribbean correspondent
13 October 2012
Both communities have come together to mark the anniversary
Seventy-five years ago, the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was the scene of a mass slaughter that has long burned in Haitians' collective memory but was either unknown or forgotten in the wider world.
It earned the name the Parsley Massacre because Dominican soldiers carried a sprig of parsley and would ask people suspected of being Haitian to pronounce the Spanish word for it: "perejil". Those whose first language was Haitian Creole found it difficult to say it correctly, a mistake that could cost them their lives.
Historians estimate that anywhere between 9,000 and 20,000 Haitians were killed in the Dominican Republic on the orders of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Bodies were dumped in the Massacre River, ominously named after an earlier colonial struggle between the Spanish and French.
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