capodominicano said:
The last couple of weeks everybody has been talking about NGOs and their desire to see the DR unite with Haiti & what not.... I have a question which NGOs specifically are spewing these messages. I have searched on the web and nothing, I can only find Amnesty International talking about human rights but it mostly involves the NP & Arm Forces.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-dom/index
Peace,
Capo
Its not an official declaration and its not clear what the desires of the NGO's organizations truly are.
Of course, some NGO groups are truly in favor of progress and well being for all types of peoples, but it's like Chiri once posted, there are NGO's and then there are NGO's.
For example,
An NGO complains that Haitian citizens are denied Dominican citizenship, then during Hipolito thousands of Haitian citizens were given Dominican citizenship, and those NGO continued through the acts of granting Dominican citizenship as if nothing was occuring.
Then there are the organizations presenting the issue at the Interamerican court in Costa Rica. The accusations were made by these organizations presenting the headlines of Dominican newspapers pertaining to the repercussions after the killing of the Dominican woman in Hatillo Palma by a couple of Haitian migrants. These organizations did not presented the newspaper headlines of that particular incident, but they did presented the headlines of the incidents that occured against Haitians by Dominican criminals, etc.
And then there is a host of things that many groups say and then you see them do something that is not consistent with what they said.
All of this leads to this, the allegations of Haitian take over of the island are just that, allegations. No body has concrete proof that this is actually occuring, but no body has concrete proof that is not occuring or that these organizations are or are not anti-dominican in nature.
Remember, being pro-Dominican is often considered to be an act of xenophobia, anti-haitianism, and racism while being pro-haitian is seen as justified, in search of equality, and the such, but never as anti-dominicanism.
There is some truth in both sides, but the word SOME has plenty of weight in this argument.
You can see this phenomenon here on DR1, where a Haitian would claim that they don't want the unification or destruction of the DR and then go on to degrade Dominican culture as something on the same level as Haitian culture, not taking into account that there are differences. Usually, they attempt to minimize the differences and often they charge the DR for things the DR had no say and/or influence over, things that affect Haiti. An example would be the Haitian initiated, executed, and defended coup of Aristide, also the issue of tourists primarily visiting the DR and not Haiti many Haitians consider this to be an act of Dominicans stealing Haitian tourists, in addition to the fact that the Haiti media only publishes anything about the DR when its regarding to deportations, bateyes, and of the sort, but hardly ever do they make comment on anything else that occurs in the DR.
Dominican media does a better job in covering things that occur in Haiti than does Haitian media towards things that occur in the DR, except negative things that occur with illegal Haitian migrants which make front page news and are blasted over and over on radio stations nationwide in Haiti.
You have the current prime minister who earlier this year claimed that Haitians don't need a visa to cross the border, and the list goes on.
To make the matter even less stable, its very clear that if any Haitian reveals his/her anti-dominicanismo and clearly states that he/she is anti-dominican, that would be a blow to the support system they have built around the issue of illegal aliens in the DR. In fact, the reason why the DR is often discredited is because the anti-Haitian phenomenon has been written about extensively, where as the anti-Dominican phenomenon which is just as strong and widespread in Haiti is hardly written about, and when it is its usually a line or two.
The list is long, but this mistrust is nothing new. It has existed since the two countries came into existence. And it will continue to exist as long as people say one thing and then do the other.
As examples take a look at this occurence:
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=6153
If you want to review the Haitian media, check these sites (you will need an understanding of French to get most of the news):
www.metropolehaiti.com
This is one of the few Haitian media sources that actually posts its news in French, Creole, Spanish, and English, in addition to putting attention to the DR:
www.alterpresse.org
To see what attitude other Haitians have towards Dominicans and the sort, look into this forum:
http://www.haitixchange.com/hx/foru...forum=1&searchSort=dateDESC&ReturnPage=Search
-NAL
