Santo Domingo.– Dominican presidential elections offer an "extraordinary
opportunity" in the battle for human rights, Amnesty International said
as it urged candidates to take a public stand on a range of issues
including alarming levels of police killings, violence against women and
abuses against migrants.
An open letter details
a series of recommendations for presidential candidates, including the
need for an extensive reform of the police, the appointment of an
ombudsman and the provision of effective measures of redress in cases of
gender based violence, abuses against migrants, denial of identity
documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent and forced evictions.
"The
presidential elections offer an extraordinary opportunity to discuss
the challenges faced by the Dominican Republic, including on how to
better protect and promote human rights," said Javier Zúñiga, Special
Advisor at Amnesty International.
"Human rights must not be seen
as a secondary or separate issue from daily issues of politics and
economics, but as integral and essential to the Dominican society," he aded.
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:50 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
For those who bury the heads in the Purple sand and say everything is fine and we should not criticize what’s happening in DR!
“What are we becoming? A society of violence and indolence."
"I only heard the shots which I believe were three, but a neighbor said they were four." "There are those who say that they were more..."
30 April 2012
Submitted by: Maribel Núñez/special for Acento.com.do
SANTO DOMINGO. Sunday, April 29. This happened just outside my house. You know what that means, I felt violated, something broke, I'm dismayed, horrified, I could not sleep last night, is this image not me removed head. A poor black man lying on the pavement bleeding is.
I only heard the shots which I believe were three, but a neighbor said they were four.
conrinued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:51 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
There are those who say that they were more... no matter the worst was given, it was more than one shot, that should towards the pavement or in the air, but never an unarmed human being, that 9 or so at night in a semi clear street opted to commit an offence and steal the gas tank belonging to the lady that fires in the mornings.
Why not have hollered stop! There is a police station down the street. Or why not have called the police to see if they would respond immediately, like they did in this case.
But it has while now that we have been losing ourselves because of so many vulgar thefts, that we have decided to take justice in our own hands.
I know that it has been a teaching from above, it is State violence already learned by people resembling Hitlerian, terminator groups which still adorn the world.
continued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:52 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
General Candelier and the other heads of the national police (A criminal gang not only in times of Balaguer) are the ones who have taught with the permission of each one of the bad governments we have had: exterminate criminals like flies in the streets to "solve the problem of the corruption".
So why haven’t we decided to do the same with Felix Bautista and the other herbs to infuse our national sociopolitical frying pan with their aromas, rather cannibalize ourselves?
It’s easier to invest in killing than work, or education, possibly for both the thieves and the honorable citizens who assume to exterminate human beings for the mere fact that they are stealing, even though their life and that of others are not in imminent danger.
Why not invest in the functionality of the institutions and even our sometimes unjust laws?
continued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:53 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Why not regulate Light messages by the media, where mega-divas, mega-divos, television productions and commercials live teaching false models of living, voracious consumerism and that if you do not have the brand so not you're nobody?
Messages that come to an illiterate population; yes they say that more than 45 per cent of our country is illiterate, and to that we must add the Haitian illiterate. Who like this Haitian, citizen exercising his human life, are all our streets, buildings, fields and other work centers in the suburbs of neighborhood homes.
It’s very but last night when I left with my camera in hand, some neighbors told me do not go out but I could remain without knowing what was happening. But since I always expect something unjust is happening I took the risk and went out.
continued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:54 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
In this shit of country, we must always walk with cameras all the time, the experience of the Herrera Hospital tells me that it should no longer be just any camera. It must be a cell phone with Internet connection where photos and videos can launched into cyberspace occur instantly and before a genuflecting gorilla appears and compels you to delete them.
Everyone must do this, to perhaps add our little grain of sand by bring light to what has happened and what is happening in this unjust society.
That way we protect ourselves from the continuous outrages to which any one of us can be subjected by any violent illiterate violator of traffic laws, of any police, or any Hitlerian in any of our institutions.
Last night I reconfirmed how violent we have become. When I came out and asked why they shot this young man, someone I do not know who said: "Ignore her, that if he had been to her, they would have killed her" or something like that.
continued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:55 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
They wanted to justify what happened, but legally and humanely they not find justification. I asked about the ambulance, I was informed they had already been called; I saw police dismount from a van they looked and just left. They did not put the victim in the back part to take him to the hospital, they looked and moved on. I think they called another unit and that was the one that finally took the wounded man. I went to my house, desperately calling 911 who never answered the call.
Friends if you have ever had been emergency waiting an ambulance in this country, let me say that it is terrible and I don't want to have to wait for one with a serious ill family member. The experience is frightening.
More than an hour and a half went by and the ambulance never came, are calls and more calls.
And the good girl that took the phone which I imagined sanding her fingernails, tells me: "Doña, (Mam) and you think that yours is the only emergency there?"
continued:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:56 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
I hung up on her and called a Movimed who came quickly. Of course you have to have around Rd $5,000.00 to pay them immediately or an insurance card.
How much I regret hearing all the negative messages. By that I mean all Dominicans that live abroad who say that will never return to this jungle, because there are no guarantees.
I remember a friend, very thoughtful and well read, who quite a few years ago that she had decided lock herself in her house, so as to not endure the indignities and this has been the case. She has almost no social life. I read that last year with hers sons and daughters in laws she decided to have lunch at a restaurant that PUCAMAIMA for the training of their students in hospitality. There came she encounter abuse again by the person who ran the restaurant who tremendously rude, which she then outlined in the newspaper that writes for and Ms. Director was fired. I wonder how many have the ability to write and have their complaints attended?
con:
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 3:57 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Or the case of the son of a UASD Professor who was unjustifiably arrested and risk of death by Honorable Members of the national police, quickly called his father and he in turn called the former Rector of the UASD quickly saved this young man life because he called the Chief of Police who called the head of the East zone, who gave orders to subordinates, and so they saved him from be killed like a dog.
I still think that we live in a shit of country, which does not reach the category of country. It hurts me having to upload this image and I apologize, but i could not just leave it leave it only fixed in my head.
Our self-criticism is needed to move forward.
** The author is a citizen and journalist
Written by: xwill7, 30 Apr 2012 3:58 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
josean,
Let it all out man
Written by: josean, 30 Apr 2012 4:01 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
X,
Please go to the aricle at acento.com and see the gross picture. Brother it will move you, well at least it did this lady and me!
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Just a reminder that the country with most people in prison as a perentage of population is the USA ,,715 per 100,000 ...suggests to me that when the DR has only 175 per 100,000 , that the USA is far more a country of law breakers ,
Indolence ...the big problem is some populations simply do not know how to enjoy themselves and many Dominicans only want to earn enough to look after the cash problems fo a few days while other populations just work and work and work and are as dull as unpolished brass .
Written by: RoyStone, 30 Apr 2012 8:48 PM
From: Australia
Ricky,
The much lower incarceration rate in the Dominican Republic compared to USA is not an indication of a lower crime rate. It is an indication of a failed judicial system, when a convicted murderer can walk free just by paying money.
Blaming criminality on a work ethic is just plain crazy. Countries with the highest work ethic have the lowest crime rates. Give me unpolished brass but spare me the bullets.
From: United States, New York City
Under Hipolito there were assasins on the police payroll "adjusting" local suspected criminals and deportees without mercy. La Soga, the Manny Perez flick from a few years ago, is loosely based on one of these criminals with badges. Hipolito is in no position to speak on human rights. The man barely classifies as human after all.
Written by: josean, 1 May 2012 12:00 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
The Operative Paraphrase:
Dominican are you safer NOW than you were 8 Years ago?
HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: Pepe32, 1 May 2012 10:18 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Sorry to disturb Joseans continuous rant but I would like to hear the candidates plans for containing illegal immigration and what to do with all the illegals already here . They should also state whether they will stand up to the interference of Amnesty International and "humanely" deport the Haitians or continue to look the other way and wait until the Dominican population explodes and the sh... hits the fan!
Written by: RoyStone, 1 May 2012 11:17 PM
From: Australia
Pepe32,
Expel all the illegal Haitians then who's going to provide the cheap labor to do the hard work the Dominican's don't want to do? I agree you have a problem with population explosion and there are probably more Haitians than you need, but you also have population explosion from the unplanned pregnancy of uneducated teenage girls.
Amnesty International used to do good work for those wrongly incarcerated (political prisoners, etc.), however of late I think they have become an extreme-left wing pressure group, meddling in situations they don't understand. I met one of their international field workers and he confirmed this.
Written by: josean, 2 May 2012 1:32 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
dup
Written by: josean, 2 May 2012 1:33 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"from the unplanned pregnancy of UNEDUCATED teenage girls."
But the METRO is the Priority!
Written by: zooma, 2 May 2012 7:50 AM
From: United States
Truth be known, human rights has a low priority in any Dominican government administation no matter what the party color. If the government took a stand on human rights it would be a sign of its weakness to maintain control of the public mind and behavior. Don't upset the applecart, it has more to gain by maintaining the status quo by living off the fruits of traditional Dominican politics and policy.
Written by: josean, 2 May 2012 8:28 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Exactly build METROS to transport the illiterate Slaves and make them think they are progressing!
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For those who bury the heads in the Purple sand and say everything is fine and we should not criticize what’s happening in DR!
“What are we becoming? A society of violence and indolence."
"I only heard the shots which I believe were three, but a neighbor said they were four." "There are those who say that they were more..."
30 April 2012
Submitted by: Maribel Núñez/special for Acento.com.do
SANTO DOMINGO. Sunday, April 29. This happened just outside my house. You know what that means, I felt violated, something broke, I'm dismayed, horrified, I could not sleep last night, is this image not me removed head. A poor black man lying on the pavement bleeding is.
I only heard the shots which I believe were three, but a neighbor said they were four.
conrinued:
There are those who say that they were more... no matter the worst was given, it was more than one shot, that should towards the pavement or in the air, but never an unarmed human being, that 9 or so at night in a semi clear street opted to commit an offence and steal the gas tank belonging to the lady that fires in the mornings.
Why not have hollered stop! There is a police station down the street. Or why not have called the police to see if they would respond immediately, like they did in this case.
But it has while now that we have been losing ourselves because of so many vulgar thefts, that we have decided to take justice in our own hands.
I know that it has been a teaching from above, it is State violence already learned by people resembling Hitlerian, terminator groups which still adorn the world.
continued:
General Candelier and the other heads of the national police (A criminal gang not only in times of Balaguer) are the ones who have taught with the permission of each one of the bad governments we have had: exterminate criminals like flies in the streets to "solve the problem of the corruption".
So why haven’t we decided to do the same with Felix Bautista and the other herbs to infuse our national sociopolitical frying pan with their aromas, rather cannibalize ourselves?
It’s easier to invest in killing than work, or education, possibly for both the thieves and the honorable citizens who assume to exterminate human beings for the mere fact that they are stealing, even though their life and that of others are not in imminent danger.
Why not invest in the functionality of the institutions and even our sometimes unjust laws?
continued:
Why not regulate Light messages by the media, where mega-divas, mega-divos, television productions and commercials live teaching false models of living, voracious consumerism and that if you do not have the brand so not you're nobody?
Messages that come to an illiterate population; yes they say that more than 45 per cent of our country is illiterate, and to that we must add the Haitian illiterate. Who like this Haitian, citizen exercising his human life, are all our streets, buildings, fields and other work centers in the suburbs of neighborhood homes.
It’s very but last night when I left with my camera in hand, some neighbors told me do not go out but I could remain without knowing what was happening. But since I always expect something unjust is happening I took the risk and went out.
continued:
In this shit of country, we must always walk with cameras all the time, the experience of the Herrera Hospital tells me that it should no longer be just any camera. It must be a cell phone with Internet connection where photos and videos can launched into cyberspace occur instantly and before a genuflecting gorilla appears and compels you to delete them.
Everyone must do this, to perhaps add our little grain of sand by bring light to what has happened and what is happening in this unjust society.
That way we protect ourselves from the continuous outrages to which any one of us can be subjected by any violent illiterate violator of traffic laws, of any police, or any Hitlerian in any of our institutions.
Last night I reconfirmed how violent we have become. When I came out and asked why they shot this young man, someone I do not know who said: "Ignore her, that if he had been to her, they would have killed her" or something like that.
continued:
They wanted to justify what happened, but legally and humanely they not find justification. I asked about the ambulance, I was informed they had already been called; I saw police dismount from a van they looked and just left. They did not put the victim in the back part to take him to the hospital, they looked and moved on. I think they called another unit and that was the one that finally took the wounded man. I went to my house, desperately calling 911 who never answered the call.
Friends if you have ever had been emergency waiting an ambulance in this country, let me say that it is terrible and I don't want to have to wait for one with a serious ill family member. The experience is frightening.
More than an hour and a half went by and the ambulance never came, are calls and more calls.
And the good girl that took the phone which I imagined sanding her fingernails, tells me: "Doña, (Mam) and you think that yours is the only emergency there?"
continued:
I hung up on her and called a Movimed who came quickly. Of course you have to have around Rd $5,000.00 to pay them immediately or an insurance card.
How much I regret hearing all the negative messages. By that I mean all Dominicans that live abroad who say that will never return to this jungle, because there are no guarantees.
I remember a friend, very thoughtful and well read, who quite a few years ago that she had decided lock herself in her house, so as to not endure the indignities and this has been the case. She has almost no social life. I read that last year with hers sons and daughters in laws she decided to have lunch at a restaurant that PUCAMAIMA for the training of their students in hospitality. There came she encounter abuse again by the person who ran the restaurant who tremendously rude, which she then outlined in the newspaper that writes for and Ms. Director was fired. I wonder how many have the ability to write and have their complaints attended?
con:
Or the case of the son of a UASD Professor who was unjustifiably arrested and risk of death by Honorable Members of the national police, quickly called his father and he in turn called the former Rector of the UASD quickly saved this young man life because he called the Chief of Police who called the head of the East zone, who gave orders to subordinates, and so they saved him from be killed like a dog.
I still think that we live in a shit of country, which does not reach the category of country. It hurts me having to upload this image and I apologize, but i could not just leave it leave it only fixed in my head.
Our self-criticism is needed to move forward.
** The author is a citizen and journalist
Let it all out man
X,
Please go to the aricle at acento.com and see the gross picture. Brother it will move you, well at least it did this lady and me!
Indolence ...the big problem is some populations simply do not know how to enjoy themselves and many Dominicans only want to earn enough to look after the cash problems fo a few days while other populations just work and work and work and are as dull as unpolished brass .
The much lower incarceration rate in the Dominican Republic compared to USA is not an indication of a lower crime rate. It is an indication of a failed judicial system, when a convicted murderer can walk free just by paying money.
Blaming criminality on a work ethic is just plain crazy. Countries with the highest work ethic have the lowest crime rates. Give me unpolished brass but spare me the bullets.
The Operative Paraphrase:
Dominican are you safer NOW than you were 8 Years ago?
HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Expel all the illegal Haitians then who's going to provide the cheap labor to do the hard work the Dominican's don't want to do? I agree you have a problem with population explosion and there are probably more Haitians than you need, but you also have population explosion from the unplanned pregnancy of uneducated teenage girls.
Amnesty International used to do good work for those wrongly incarcerated (political prisoners, etc.), however of late I think they have become an extreme-left wing pressure group, meddling in situations they don't understand. I met one of their international field workers and he confirmed this.
"from the unplanned pregnancy of UNEDUCATED teenage girls."
But the METRO is the Priority!
Truth be known, human rights has a low priority in any Dominican government administation no matter what the party color. If the government took a stand on human rights it would be a sign of its weakness to maintain control of the public mind and behavior. Don't upset the applecart, it has more to gain by maintaining the status quo by living off the fruits of traditional Dominican politics and policy.
Exactly build METROS to transport the illiterate Slaves and make them think they are progressing!