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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place Staff
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 13, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
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  Tens of thousands of Haitians born in the Dominican Republic are at risk of expulsion.

Overview

• On March 17, the Dominican Republic reopened its consulates in Haiti after weeks of tension and negotiations. The diplomatic outposts had been closed two weeks earlier after thousands of people in the Haitian capital marched from the foreign ministry to the Dominican embassy, protesting the killing of a Haitian man a few days earlier in Santiago, a city in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

  Young men climbed the roof of the diplomatic building in Port-au-Prince and - in retaliation for the burning of a Haitian flag in Santiago - burned a Dominican flag, and tried to raise a Haitian one in its place. Dominican officials subsequently closed their five consulates in Haiti and withdrew their ambassador claiming that the unrest endangered the lives of its diplomatic staff. But last week Dominican officials declared that the Dominican ambassador would return and the consulates would reopen after the Haitian government had agreed to increase security at the diplomatic missions.
  
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  Photo: Haitians push to cross the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti in Malpasse, Haiti [REUTERS]