As I was doing research for my paper, I came across an article that I found rather unsettling. I had heard of instances like this happening in passing before but until I really analyzed the situation involving both nations and the history behind it I didn't realize how important this was. In February of this year, a Haitian man was found hanging from a tree in Santiago, Dominican Republic (one of the major cities in the country). His hands and feet were bound and he showed signs of abuse. The police immediately ruled out racism and anti-Haitianism as the reason behind the attack but they did so without even giving enough time for an investigation, as if they were brushing it off.
Earlier someone had been burning a Haitian flag and then coincidentally, a Haitian man is hung from a tree in the middle of a Santiago park. Haitian people have been seen as a plague on the Dominican Republic but this was just "an isolated incident". It is concerning that anti-Haitianism was at the root of one of the Dominican Republic's biggest tragedies and now in the year 2015, it isn't a dictator that is commiting heinous crimes against Haitians..it's ordinary citizens.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/14/384344141/haitians-lynching-renews-protests-against-dominican-citizenship-law
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