A video of a Haitian man's arm being chopped off with a "Machete" in the Dominican Republic. Many Haitians live inside the Dominican Republic in impoverished sugar cane communities -Known as batey (Sugar worker's town).
Quick back ground:
Every year for seventy years or more, seasonal immigrants from Haiti have arrived to work in the sugar harvest in the Dominican Republic. The migrants are lodged in rooms at the batey sometimes with no facilities and expected to work cropping sugar cane in long days with hard hours. In the past, Dominican heads of state paid Haitian heads of state a finder's fee to round up large numbers of Haitians. These days, land owners pay headhunters, a fee for each cane cutter the headhunter provides. A headhunter may entice the prospective laborer with promises of a work permit, and often requires a large fee from the prospective immigrant. When the Haitians immigrants arrive, they may find that they are not free to leave the batey until they finish the labor, and that the conditions are absolutely deplorable. Effectively, becoming "Slaves" to the land owners and Headhunters.
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Please click on the link below to watch this video. I must warn you all, It's HORRIBLE and very graphic. I can't find words to describe it. The video shows a Haitian man arm being chopped off with a "Machete" in the Dominican Republic as a form of punishment.
http://telelakaytv.com/News/Videos/haitianmanhandcutinbatey.html
