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Patrol boat 'rammed' escaping Haitians Posted: Monday, May 14, 2007 Survivors of a capsizing that killed at least 61 Haitian migrants said today that crewmen aboard a Turks and Caicos patrol boat had towed them into deeper water and abandoned them after their vessel overturned. "They just left us out there," said Dona Daniel, 23, one of a half-dozen survivors who were interviewed by The Associated Press immediately after being repatriated to Haiti from the nearby British territory. The other Haitians corroborated Daniel's account of the tragedy in the pre-dawn hours of Friday. They said their sailboat, loaded with an estimated 160 people, was minutes away from shore on one of the Turks and Caicos islands when the patrol boat rammed them, towed the migrant boat away from land and then refused to take the migrants on board when their vessel capsized. Lovderson Nacon, 19, said many of the migrants didn't know how to swim and were screaming in the darkness, "God help me!" Full Article : theage.com.au Haitian immigrants demand justice in boat disaster off Turks and Caicos Boat rammed, say Haiti survivors Survivors of a capsizing in which 61 Haitian migrants died have said that their vessel was rammed by a patrol boat from the Turks and Caicos Islands. Haitian Survivors Say Officials Left Them For Dead The Haitians said their sailboat, loaded with an estimated 160 people, was minutes away from the shore of Providenciales, one of the Turks and Caicos Islands, on May 4 when the patrol boat rammed them in the predawn darkness. Haitian migrants 'angry and revolted' at alleged boat ramming off Turks and Caicos PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Survivors of the worst sea disaster to hit Haitian migrants in years were "angry and revolted" Wednesday as they accused a Turks and Caicos vessel of ramming their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized, killing 61 in shark-filled waters, a senior Haitian official said. Reports about the alleged involvement of the Turks and Caicos boat has taken days to come out because the 78 survivors are locked in a jail-like detention center and barred from speaking to the media. |
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