- On 16 August four young Haitian men were attacked in the outskirts of Santo Domingo. Three of them were tied up, doused with flammable liquid and then set on fire. The fourth man managed to escape. The three suffering from burns later died in of a hospital in the capital.

- On 24 August four Haitians who were part of a group of six trying to re-enter the Dominican Republic after having been deported to Haiti, their country of origin, were murdered. They had temporarily taken refuge in banana fields in the Barahona region, and were chased, captured and killed by guards in the small hours of the morning.

- A series of murders reported by the Haitian AlterPresse news agency on the 30th August: a foreigner presumed to be a Haitian was found murdered in Santiago, two others were found dead following a dispute in Bavaro, and a 29 year-old Haitian, Bolivar François, was found murdered, with his hands tied, in Jarabacoa.

- Also on 30th August, the Haitian NGO, Groupe d'Appui aux Réfugiés et Rapatriés, reported that Delany Fleury, a 31 year-old businessman of Haitian origin, had been shot three times and died following an arguement with a Dominican in Elias Pinas.

The Haiti Support Group calls on the Dominican government to immediately enact measures to ensure the security of Haitian migrants and of Dominicans of Haitian origin, and to prevent public officials and the media from making statements or using language that may incite racial hatred.

Furthermore, the HSG urges the British government and the European Union to raise the issue with the Dominican authorities as a matter of the utmost urgency.

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