Diario Libre, has published a biased report dealing with Christopher Hartley's departure from the Dominican Republic, calling it the end of an era of conflicts between pro-haitians and  groups defined as nationalists.

The piece is written by Leoncio Comprés who tells of Hartley's departure and reminds the reader of the already sour departure of another human rights defender Pedro Ruquoy- who was 'reassigned' to Zambia, a country of south-central Africa, after a showdown with several government authorities.
Meanwhile, another source -Clave Digital- reports that 25 houses were destroyed by fire at Batey Bayona -one of the poorest sectors of Santo Domingo- which is mostly inhabited by Haitian sugarcane cutters and their descendants, resulting in the death of two children.

This same source tells that authorities have not rendered any comments yet, while locals call the tragedy an arson.

Contrary to what Leoncio Comprés -from Diario Libre- thinks, conflicts are far from over. Thus, Hartley and Ruquoy may be gone, but other human rights defenders shall emerge and go on.

On the months to come, some will try to change the Dominican Constitution to further advance the arbitrary denationalization of Dominican children of Haitian origin.

Those people will try to gain support and further promote bystander apathy.

Let's pay attention to their actions and omissions and give them something extra to worry about.

We shall not stop. We shall not let hostile government authorities and ultranationalists leaders have their way with the vulnerable... We shall not let them have their way with us.