This June 18, 2016 brings the 16th anniversary of "massacre of Guayubin" where, as part of a migration and border security operation, the Dominican military, opened fire on 18 June 2000, on a truck carrying thirty migrants, killing 6 Haitians and Dominicans 1 and hurtful several other of our compatriots.

Dominican military responsible for this serious incident, accused of murder, had been brought to military court in July 2000, which innocented them 5 days later, despite the claims of victims produced in civil courts.

In 2005, following the blocking of the case in the Dominican Republic, victims with the support of the Support Group for Returnees and Refugees (GARR), the Dominicano-Haitian Cultural Centre (CHIC) and the International Clinic for Human Rights (CIDDHU), decided to seize the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to obtain justice.

After 7 long years of proceedings, the Inter-American Court made public on 29 November 2012, a verdict condemning the Dominican State to have attacked, killed and injured arbitrarily thirty Haitian migrants on 18 June 2000. Furthermore, the Court ordered the Dominican government to pay 927,000 US dollars in compensation to victims and their representatives with a delay of 6 months to one year to complete this sentence of Justice, but as of today nothing has been paid.

GARR and the CCDH two institutions, Haitian and Dominican, who represent and support the victims of "massacre of Guayubin" for nearly 16 years, denounce the bad faith of the Dominican authorities who refuse to execute the measures of the verdict of the IACHR.

These organizations intend to continue a series of steps at the national and international level in order to bring the Dominican authorities to implement the judgment of the Inter-American Court in order the victims and their dependents, finally receive compensation.

HL/ HaitiLibre