Clarens Renois's Rallying Cry Against Humiliations Inflicted on Haitians in the Dominican Republic

PORT-AU-PRINCE.— ‘Haiti: History and Reality, Call to Sign a «Pact for Collective Renaissance»’ is the title of this poignant text; with a somber depth, former presidential candidate Clarens Renois expresses his deep Haitian sentiments, denouncing the humiliating suffering of his compatriots in the Dominican Republic.

In this text, a copy of which reached the editorial team of the online newspaper «Le Relief», Professor Renois highlights the poignant realities of Haitians in the neighboring territory. With a subtlety worthy of his journalist's pen, he denounces these reprisals against the history of the first Black nation, orchestrated by a group of ultra-nationalist Dominicans, while on his own side, everything is being justified.

We offer our readers the full text, without further comment, so that everyone can be enlightened, draw their share of indignation, and respond to this call for the renaissance of the Haitian being, this rallying cry.

We wish you a good read.

Haiti: History and Reality, Call to Sign a «Pact for Collective Renaissance»

By Clarens Renois

Images and videos circulating on social media show heinous, degrading, shocking acts inflicted upon Haitian migrants chased in the streets, beaten, sometimes executed on Dominican soil. Every day, they are brutally hunted down and deported by thousands. All of this happens in almost general indifference. No protest or condemnation is heard. All that these compatriots (about half a million, according to GAAR) seek there is what the State of Haiti no longer offers its citizens: work, health, education, and opportunities.

My patriotic heart bleeds to see our blood spilled in the streets of Dominican land.

To see our flag trampled, soiled by Dominican extremists, my soul weeps.

To see pregnant women removed from hospital beds and forced to give birth in indignity on a street corner, I am moved to the depths of my being. Recently, Loudya Jean Pierre (32 years old) died after giving birth at home. Her partner and the newborn were expelled, the corpse sequestered. Two infants were also repatriated to Haiti without their mothers.

To know that my compatriots must live as recluses to escape raids and the hunt by Dominican soldiers makes me angry and reminds me of the massacre perpetrated on our brothers and sisters in 1937!

To know that in the bateyes, our viejos live in earthen huts and are held in the cane fields takes me back to the time of the colony.

Every day, we witness the inhumane treatment inflicted on our sisters and brothers, the heinous and degrading acts perpetrated against our compatriots on the soil of the Dominican Republic.

These acts tell us that something is not working at home, in Haiti.