It is inconceivable that so-called human rights groups have kept silent while murders continue to increase in Haiti, with over 300 Haitians murdered as a result of the deteriorating social, economic and political situation in that nation, writes the editorial in Listin Diario today, Friday 15 November.
“Not even the leaders of the St. Vincent & Grenadines who have expressed their concern about the human rights of Haitians resident illegally in the Dominican Republic have had anything to say about the murders by shooting of 170 Haitians or the lynching of 30 others from July to September.
The newspaper asks why voices have neither been raised in indignation about the unbridled contempt for human life in Haiti, nor have ventured to assist Haiti, which is so badly in need of a minimum level of institutions to get itself on a better path. In Haiti, the government has given no signs of when it will hold legislative elections, writes the editorialist. “On the contrary, the Haitian leadership seems more interested in fueling fires in other nations against the Dominican Republic that has exercised its sovereignty when defining Dominican citizenship requirements, a right that no one has questioned of any other nation in the world that has set its own migratory and citizenship rules.”
Meanwhile, the bloodshed continues in Haiti, with confrontations between political factions that are incapable of reaching any understanding or harmony, and the silence from the so-called defenders of human rights of the Haitians is the most eloquent proof of the hypocrisy of their stance and their fabulous ability to look away when it is not in their interest,” writes the editorialist.
http://www.listin.com.do/editorial/2013/11/15/299692/La-falsa-defensa-de-los-derechos-humanos
Haiti is ranked second in the world on the Global Slavery index.
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/#rankings