P-to-P, April 16, 2024 [AlterPresse] — The Support Group for Returnees and Refugees (Garr) platform calls for severe sanctions against the author of the alleged rape, perpetrated on Friday, April 5, 2024, on a 14-year-old Haitian girl in the East of the Republic Dominican, in a note dated Monday April 15, 2024, sent to the online agency AlterPresse.
Dominican migration agents broke into the home of a Haitian family. One of them raped a little girl, during a migration operation carried out on Friday April 5, 2024 around 3:00 am until dawn, in Villa Plywood, Verón, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic , reported Santiago Molina, an official of the National Human Rights Commission of the Dominican Republic (Cndh-Rd), cited by the Garr platform.
After the abominable act she suffered, the little girl was taken into custody and her silence was demanded under penalty of death, reveals Santiago Molina, who declares that he, like the girl’s mother, also received threats. , after a complaint has been made.
In a note, the General Directorate of Migration (Dgm) of the Dominican Republic indicated thatan investigation is reportedly underway into an alleged rape of a 14-year-old Haitian minor in Bávaro, in the province of Altagracia, (Eastern Dominican Republic), following a complaint.
“Many houses were destroyed during the kidnapping. The victims ran here and there, all naked, in the cold of the night. A real mess,” human rights activist Santiago Molina also reported in the Dominican press.
“These shameful, infamous practices”, carried out by DGM agents, are commonplace, denounces the Garr platform, referring to a spectacular rape perpetrated, on Friday, September 15, 2023, by a Dominican agent at Las Americas International Airport (in Santo Domingo) on Haitian national Stephy Graph Cadichon, in the presence of her four-year-old son.
Haitian migrants, including pregnant women, confide in having suffered sexual abuse from Dominican migration troops, according to testimonies often collected by the Haitian group for the defense of the rights of returnees and refugees.
The Garr platform mentions “numerous scenes of looting, theft and brutality, racist and xenophobic acts, which punctuate these pseudo operations, more comparable to raiding practices with a commercial aim”.
Such notorious, unpunished, tolerated and recurring practices constitute strategies of persecution against Haitian migrants, condemns the Garr platform.
Dgm agents persist in reproducing the same practices with complete impunity, despite repeated remonstrances from the Garr platform, the Amnesty International organization, the United Nations and many other institutions, to force the authorities of the Dominican Republic to respect the rights of Haitian migrants, and stop racist and xenophobic practices against them.
The Garr platform invites all relevant national and international actors, including the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani), a decentralized institution. of the Dominican State, “to stand together to demand that light be shed on this case of rape of a minor and the many others, which the neighboring Republic often tends to stifle, thus giving free rein to total impunity”.
The Support Group for Returnees and Refugees and Amnesty International platform called on the government of the Dominican Republic to end its racist migration policiesin separate notes.
While condemning the wave of racism and xenophobia against Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, the Garr platform says it welcomes the initiative of the organization Amnesty International, which urged the Dominican authorities to suspend violations of the rights of migrants and Haitian migrants and refugees found on their territory. [emb rc apr 16/04/2024 10:35]
