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Edad Mercier ’10, co-president of the Harvard Haitian Alliance (HHA), said Fernández has not done enough for ethnic Haitians in the Dominican Republic...
According to the U.S. Department of State, during Fernández’s tenure Dominican authorities conducted mass expulsions of ethnic Haitians, sending thousands of people in a period of weeks across the Haitian border often solely on the basis of their appearance...
...Relations between the two countries have been strained for over two hundred years. When Haiti won its independence in 1804, it quickly began a conquest of the Dominican Republic, holding parts of the nation to its east until 1844. In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo instituted a program of ethnic cleansing in which his soldiers rounded up and killed more than 25,000 Haitians and black Dominicans along the countries’ border by shooting them, hacking them up with machetes, or marching them into the sea. The river separating the two countries, Rio Massacre, is now named...
...Administration has tried to accelerate nation building in Iraq, ignoring history and human nature and forgetting America's own long struggle to become "one from many." If the Iraqis are nowhere near forming a united country, perhaps letting them settle into states partitioned according to ethnic and religious differences is the most practical and humane policy available. Someday the better angels of the Iraqis' natures may bring them closer to union, but American blood and treasure are not bottomless resources for propping up a largely fictive nation. Steve McGreal, Chicago...
...added that the geographical distribution of Iraq’s distinct ethnic and religious populations, as well as the uneven distribution of oil and water resources, impede any plan to divide Iraq...