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Entities warn of stampede of Haitians to Dominican Republic territory

SANTO DOMINGO.- Social and political organizations in the Dominican Republic?s north region warned yesterday that the social insecurity ruling in Haiti could spark a massive stampede of undocumented Haitians to the neighboring country.

Haiti?s situation in "is more and more complicated" due to the insecurity, the violence and the confrontations between members of the United Nations Haiti Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) and armed civilians, added the sources quoted by the local newspaper El Nuevo Diario.

The leftist party Force of the Revolution "defenseless" the denounced that daily young Haitians die due from the country?s violence while the MINUSTAH soldiers "besiege the poor districts, arresting and killing citizens."

"This situation is making the Haitians hopeless and many look for various formulas to escape to the Dominican Republic," added the political party.

The Committee for Human rights and the Christian Congregation "Cristo Vive" on the country?s north said that thousands of Haitians have settled down in the cities the Dominican north after fleeing from Haiti?s violence.

"We see how the streets of Santiago (north) and other provinces fill daily with illegal Haitians whom have had to leave their belongings due to the repression, the insecurity, the unemployment and the lack of opportunities," added the human rights organization .

Some one million mostly undocumented Haitians who work mainly in the sugar and the construction industries live in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island Hispaniola with Haiti.