Santo Domingo.-Cruster of 400 citizens Haitians in an irregular situation They are voluntarily returning to their country this Friday, after residing for a time in the community Kill mosquita adjacent to the popular tourist destinations of Bávaro and Punta Cana, which was completely dismantled by the Dominican authorities.
The community of Mata Mosquito in Friusa, home of both Dominicans and Haitians, was the epicenter of an intervention by migration and military agents of the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Organizations have described this action as “arbitrary” and “illegitimate”, after the total demolition of homes, mainly built with precarious materials such as zinc and wood.
The Dominican Human Rights activist Santiago Molina told Efe that the eviction was executed without a court order, although he stressed that the displaced were allowed to save all their trousseau.
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“No one was notified, from one moment to another they arrived (migration and military authorities) to evict Haitians and some Dominicans in an arbitrary, illegitimate way, although there were no incidents,” he said.
He explained that he is one of the organizers of the Return to Haiti of the undocumented Haitians through buses that, he said, have been rented by the Haiti embassy in Santo Domingo.
He said he did not know the fate of other Haitians displaced after the demolition of their housing for heavy machines. He estimated that some 400 families resided instead.
“The military, police and migration agents remain in the area to prevent settlements from returning,” he said.
He pointed out that it is not true that Mata mosquito was a “cave of criminals” that disseminated “falsely” on social networks and in other media and assured that in the place they lived “peacefully” Haitians and Dominicans.
On March 30, a nationalist organization headed a march to the sector of Hoyo de Friusa, adjacent to Mata Mosquito, to denounce the “mass” of undocumented Haitians.
The march concluded with incidents between the police and protesters, since some people tried, precisely, to reach Mata mosquito and the permission of the authorities did not contemplate it.
The Dominican government began in October a wide deportation operation of undocumented Haitians and on Monday began to stop the Haitian parturients who go to Dominican hospitals, an action criticized by the United Nations and Amnesty International, as well as by the Haitian government.
