Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Abductions in Haiti: "we live with fear in our stomachs"
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Milo Milfort, winner of the 2022 Pierre Chaffanjon Prize. © RFI
By: Mikael Ponge
2 mins
The 9th edition of the Philippe Chaffanjon Prize rewarded this year 2022 Milo Milfort, 35, independent journalist for his multimedia report "Abductions in Haiti: trapped by fear" produced for Enquet'Action.
He is our guest.
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According to the latest figures from the Crime Observation Unit, which we reveal to you exclusively, at least 90 people were kidnapped in Haiti in May 2022, compared to around thirty in April.
Collective abductions have also seen a marked increase in the past month.
If we compare the figures for the first quarter of last year and those of this year, it is an increase of more than 58%.
A phenomenon that spares no one, as Milo Milfort recounts in his investigation
"Kidnappings in Haiti, trapped by fear"
, rewarded with
the Phillipe Chaffanjon
2022 prize. A report produced in pain because
"the security context prevents us from having access to certain places, because it was difficult to get the victims to speak,"
explains the laureate who denounces
"the normalization of kidnapping which creates a climate of fear in the country, we live with fear in our stomachs, each in turn, anyone can be kidnapped anywhere"
.
A scourge that has driven many Haitians into exile.
According to Milo Milfort,
“it is only in 20 or 30 years that we will know what we have lost with the kidnappings”
.
Renewed tensions against Haitians in the Dominican Republic
We were talking to you earlier this week about the upsurge in the expulsion of Haitian migrants by the Dominican Republic.
In less than two weeks, 1,700 people, including 76 children, have been sent back to the border, some denouncing having suffered violence from Dominican agents.
This renewed tension towards the Haitians arose following an incident which took place on a construction site in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
This was detailed by Edwin Paraison, president of the binational Zilé Foundation, to our correspondent
Amélie Baron.
And on the front page of the newspaper of the 1st
:
the Guyanese consume without knowing it thousands of micro plastic particles each year.
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