Parc Kado Refugee Camp, Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, 16 October 2015 - Hundreds of refugees living in squaler in refugee camps in the southern border town of Anse-a-Pitres, since the Dominican government started deporting Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. The region is non-arable with no possibility of farming, no work and so far there is been no help from the Haitian government and very sporatic assistence from a couple of NGOs. Additionally, cholera has hit the camps and is spreading amongst the population. © Tony Savino

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The Forgotten refugees

Tony Savino | Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti

Parc Kado Refugee Camp, Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, October 2015 - Hundreds of refugees live in squaler in refugee camps in the southern border town of Anse-a-Pitres, since the Dominican government started deporting Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. The region is non-arable with no possibility of farming, no work and so far there is been no help from the Haitian government and very sporatic assistence from a couple of NGOs.

The conditions of the camps are abysmal. People are literally starving to death. Many of the residents have been there since June, when the Dominican state ramped up its deportations in accordance with it’s new immigration laws which have stripped the nationality of tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, retroactive to 1929.

The Haitian government is criminally negligent. The United Nations and the foreign armies occupying the country are not to be found. And now there is a perfect storm with the introduction of cholera in the camps; challenged immune systems from malnutrition, no sanitation and no place to wash one’s hands. The slow-motion genocide has gone from a crawl to a sprint.

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