By: Edson Wooldy Louidor (*) A few days after the inauguration of Haitian President-elect Joseph Michel Martelly scheduled for May 14, is under increasing threats to people displaced by the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
addition to the violent evictions, the deplorable health conditions, the widespread lack of access to essential services and the growing risks of violence, especially against women and girls, displaced people are threatened by the hurricane season which will begin on the first June.
A team of researchers from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the American University of Colorado cyclones expected 17 and 9 hurricanes that could affect the Atlantic, with a high probability of impact on the Caribbean, where Haiti is located.
The situation could be serious for the displaced. Given the very vulnerable situation in the camps are located, a simple enough rain accompanied with some gusts of wind to destroy the stores and worn by time and flood the camps.
Almost a year and a half of the earthquake, despite specific efforts made by the Haitian authorities and international agencies for temporary relocation of the displaced, the country is still waiting for "durable solutions and decent homes for 680,000 displaced people still living in tents and return to communities, "admitted the head of the mission of the Organization International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Haiti, Luca Dall''oglio.
In this situation, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) calls on the new Haitian authorities to suspend the violent evictions that violate human rights and lives of the displaced, "establish the conditions and provide the means to return voluntary, safe and worthy of IDPs to their homes or places of habitual residence, or their voluntary resettlement in another part of the country "in accordance with principle 28 of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, set by the Organization of United Nations (UN). Intensified threats
violent evictions: Case of the Palais de l'Art Country
On 10 May, over 150 families living in the Palais de l'Art field located at Delmas 33 were locked up as prisoners in the field.
On the morning of the day, when some displaced persons tried to leave the field for their activities, they realized that the access gate to the street was locked. In a desperate attempt to climb the wall outside the ground to jump to the street, several IDPs wounded.
"is a strategy used by the land owner to force us to leave the field," said one displaced.
On May 9, displaced in the same field had sealed with nails found the only bathrooms available to meet their biological needs. In addition, the landowner threatened to retaliate against them if they tried to open the bathrooms.
In a meeting with committee members of the field, with the participation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the SJR, the land owner of Palais de l'Art had given to the displaced until the first of May as deadline to leave the camp.
According to the landlord's lawyer, the Ministry of Interior and Local Authorities had signed with his client a lease for U.S. $ 25 000 that expired since December 2010.
"Despite installments which gave the Ministry to extend the contract, did nothing," said the lawyer.
"I will notify the Ministry of Interior and Territorial Communities our decision to evict displaced within eight days," he said.
displaced Testimonials: "We have no where to go" then placed
testimonies they gave to some IDPs camp SJR Palais de l'Art with respect to the period set the owner of the land:
"Live at the Palais field de l'Art from January 13, 2010. My house is cracked following the earthquake, and I could not go back there ever since because my husband and I are unemployed, I have no money to repair the house. Given the short notice which gives the land owner to abandon the field, I do not know what to do, "he said, helplessly, Marjorie Simon.
"I live in the country since 13 January. The owner (the land) asked us to abandon the field the first of May, but we have nowhere to go, "he said, desperate, Magalie Gilot.
"I'm here for six months. After the earthquake, I returned to my hometown in the province. But then I came to camp because a friend invited me. Since I did not nowhere else to go, came with her to the field. If conditions were good back in my town in the province, would not there. I came to find work, "confessed Benita Pierre.
Source: http://alainet.org/active/46511
(*) Edson Wooldy Louidor Jesuit Refugee Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC SJR)
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