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Haitian-Dominican Activist Sonia Pierre Is Dead
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011
Haitian-Dominican human rights advocate Solange Pierre, aka Sonia Pierre, died of a heart attack on Sunday Dec 4. She was 48.
For many years, Sonia Pierre, a Dominican woman born of Haitian parents in a Batey, has been fighting for Haitian rights in the Dominican Republic. Sonia and more than 650,000 others Haitian-Dominicans like her have been denied basic human rights just because they are of Haitian decent.
It is called "Antihaitianismo"... It is a Moral Holocaust... It is a racist bias against Haitians and descendants of Haitians by Dominicans and it is legal...