American woman and her child kidnapped in Haiti, organization says - Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped on Thursday, the group said.

A New Hampshire woman and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to a faith-based humanitarian organization where the mother works as a nurse.

Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Port-Au-Prince, according to the organization, El Roi Haiti. They were abducted from El Roi Haiti's campus while "serving in our community ministry," El Roi Haiti president and co-founder Jason Brown said in a statement.

"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family," Brown said in a statement on Saturday. "Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus."

Dorsainvil is originally from New Hampshire and has been living and working in Haiti "for some time now," El Roi Haiti confirmed to ABC News. She works as a school and community nurse for the organization and is married to its director, with whom she shares the child, according to El Roi Haiti.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed to ABC News on Saturday that the agency is aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti.

"We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners," the spokesperson said.

"The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas," the spokesperson added.

No further information is being shared by the State Department at this time.

The reported kidnapping comes as the State Department ordered the evacuation on Thursday of family members of U.S. government employees and non-emergency U.S. government employees in Haiti.

"U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options, in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges," a State Department advisory said.


The State Department advises Americans not to travel to Haiti due to widespread kidnapping, as well as crime, civil unrest and poor health care infrastructure.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/american-woman-child-kidnapped-haiti/story?id=101818518

 

[SiccDicc]

"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,"

Well that was her first mistake.

"U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options, in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges," a State Department advisory said.

Not listening to this was her second.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Burned the coal and paid the toll.

 

[Megaton Punch]

There are 195 countries on earth. Of them, Haiti is #188 for places I'd set foot for any reason. It's one of those countries that doesn't even track most crimes because it's not worth trying to count raindrops in a thunderstorm.

 

[RACISM]

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I think this involves niggers.

 

[White Erasure]

Redditards don't bother to research and see that the last two JSOC operators to be killed on hostage rescue missions were rescuing an Indian and random Iraqis respectively.

https://archive.is/bVOYy

https://archive.is/i07AY

Also a bunch of white missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti a couple of years ago and no rescue attempt was made. Probably because even the highest levels of the US military are having difficulties getting and retaining skilled people now.



Redditards don't know that everyone in Haiti is already Christian.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Redditards don't know that everyone in Haiti is already Christian.

Because they're more racist than a guy on KiwiFarms literally named @RACISM

They probably think most Haitians are walking around with voodoo-sticks and a bone in their nose.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Maybe Conan O'Brien can go back and tell us all what fun place for tourists Haiti is.

 

[glass_houses]

What the Haitians do to female kidnap victims is horrific. I have sympathy in principle for someone who went there with the best of intentions, but she took her kid there. I can't find any information about the child, its age, its sex. But regardless of how old or what sex a child is, Haiti is no place for a child. What kind of nutjob deliberately takes her child into the middle of a lawless war zone? I doubt that there's a single mother in Haiti that wouldn't kill for the opportunity to give their children good food, clean water, and a safe place to live.

I am in no way religious, but I did read The Pilgrim's Progress many years ago, and even back in 1680 it was acknowledged that a mother's first responsibility was to her children, not god. If someone feels a calling to help the needy, that's wonderful. But taking your children into dangerous places because you think you can cure the world's ills, or that god will protect you because you're on a holy mission, is just unbridled narcissism.

 

[Dysnomia]

Protip: Don't go to Haiti.

Why did she drag her child to such a dangerous place? She should have got out when she received the warning. What a dumbass.

 

[White Erasure]

What the Haitians do to female kidnap victims is horrific. I have sympathy in principle for someone who went there with the best of intentions, but she took her kid there. I can't find any information about the child, its age, its sex. But regardless of how old or what sex a child is, Haiti is no place for a child. What kind of nutjob deliberately takes her child into the middle of a lawless war zone? I doubt that there's a single mother in Haiti that wouldn't kill for the opportunity to give their children good food, clean water, and a safe place to live.

I am in no way religious, but I did read The Pilgrim's Progress many years ago, and even back in 1680 it was acknowledged that a mother's first responsibility was to her children, not god. If someone feels a calling to help the needy, that's wonderful. But taking your children into dangerous places because you think you can cure the world's ills, or that god will protect you because you're on a holy mission, is just unbridled narcissism.

Protip: Don't go to Haiti.

Why did she drag her child to such a dangerous place? She should have got out when she received the warning. What a dumbass.

She married a Haitian man. The man in the photo is her husband. I don't know how Haitian laws work but I assume her mulatto child is a Haitian citizen.

 

[BelUwUga]

Well that was her first mistake.

Not listening to this was her second.

Dammit I hate re-runs. Secondary archive. Published April of fucking 2010. Reproducing text since original article is dead:

We are not your weapons – we are women

By Amanda Kijera, civic journalist and activist in Haiti

Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.

It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.

Accepting the helplessness of my situation, I chucked aside the Haiti bracelet I had worn so proudly for over a year, along with it, my dreams of human liberation. Someone, I told myself, would always be bigger and stronger than me. As a woman, my place in life had been ascribed from birth. A Chinese proverb says that “women are like the grass, meant to be stepped on.” The thought comforted me at the same time that it made me cringe.

A dangerous thought. Others like it have derailed movements, discouraged consciousness and retarded progress for centuries. To accept it as truth signals the beginning of the end of a person–or community’s–life and ability to self-love. Resignation means inertia, and for the past two weeks I have inhabited its innards. My neighbors here include women from all over the world, but it’s the women of African descent, and particularly Haitian women, who move me to write now.

Truly, I have witnessed as a journalist and human rights advocate the many injustices inflicted upon Black men in this world. The pain, trauma and rage born of exploitation are terrors that I have grappled with every day of my life. They make one want to strike back, to fight rabidly for what is left of their personal dignity in the wake of such things. Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy, but their anger is misdirected.

Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women–and particularly women of color–are forced to bear the brunt of the Black male response to the Black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefitted from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.

The United Nations, western women’s organizations and the Haitian government must immediately provide women in Haiti with the funding that they need to build domestic violence and rape crisis centers. Stop dividing Black families by distributing solely to women, which only exaggerates male resentment and frustration in Haiti. Provide both women and men with job training programs that would allow for self-sufficiency as opposed to continued dependency on whites. Lastly, admit that the issue of racial integration might still need addressing on an international level, and then find a way to address it!

I went to Haiti after the earthquake to empower Haitians to self-sufficiency. I went to remind them of the many great contributions that Afro-descendants have made to this world, and of their amazing resilience and strength as a people. Not once did I envision myself becoming a receptacle for a Black man’s rage at the white world, but that is what I became. While I take issue with my brother’s behavior, I’m grateful for the experience. It woke me up, made me understand on a deeper level the terror that my sisters deal with daily. This in hand, I feel comfortable in speaking for Haitian women, and for myself, in saying that we will not be your pawns, racially, politically, economically or otherwise.

We are women, not weapons of war. Thankfully, there are organizations here in Haiti who continues to fight for women’s human rights like, MADRE, SOFA and Enfofanm.

Rather than allowing myself to be used in such a fashion, and as opposed to submitting to the frustration and bitterness that can be born of such an experience, I choose to continue to love and educate instead. My brothers can be sensitized to women’s realities in Haiti and the world over if these are presented to them by using their own clashes with racism and oppression as a starting point.

They must be made to understand the dangerous likelihood of the oppressed becoming the oppressor if no shift in consciousnesses takes place and if no end to the cycle of trauma occurs. I intend to see that it does…by continuing to live and work fearlessly with justice in mind, through the creation of a safe space for women in Haiti and by creating programming for Haitian men that considers their needs, too. Weapons annihilate, dialogue bears fruit.

It’s the fruit I’m interested in now, no matter how strange or bruised it might appear.

It's been known for decades Haiti is an irredeemable shithole. Those that elect to go there in 2023 are effectively asking for what they get. Edit: the juxtaposition of her two remaining tweets is pretty funny:

 

[Matt Damon]

They probably think most Haitians are walking around with voodoo-sticks and a bone in their nose.

They're not?

 

[glass_houses]

Ah, Amanda Kijera. The woman who got repeatably raped by a black man in a country composed of 95% blacks who've been free of white rule for two hundred years... and still managed to blame the white man.

Don't you just love the backflips narcissistic rainbow warriors do when they're confronted with the fact that they're not the saviour that the poor discriminated against darkies have always dreamed of, and are instead treated like the borderline animal that those unfairly maligned men see all women as?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

What the Haitians do to female kidnap victims is horrific. I have sympathy in principle for someone who went there with the best of intentions, but she took her kid there. I can't find any information about the child, its age, its sex. But regardless of how old or what sex a child is, Haiti is no place for a child. What kind of nutjob deliberately takes her child into the middle of a lawless war zone? I doubt that there's a single mother in Haiti that wouldn't kill for the opportunity to give their children good food, clean water, and a safe place to live.

I am in no way religious, but I did read The Pilgrim's Progress many years ago, and even back in 1680 it was acknowledged that a mother's first responsibility was to her children, not god. If someone feels a calling to help the needy, that's wonderful. But taking your children into dangerous places because you think you can cure the world's ills, or that god will protect you because you're on a holy mission, is just unbridled narcissism.

I have some relatives who were missionaries in Iraq after 2003 and even raised their daughters there. According to them, places like this are not too terrible, as long as you know where the safe part of town is, set up your compound there, know the right local people in that neighborhood, do not ever leave that area (except surrounded by people you absolutely trust), and when tensions really rise, you get the fuck out of there until it cools down.

 

[TerrifyingPterodactyl]

Yup

Ah, Amanda Kijera. The woman who got repeatably raped by a black man in a country composed of 95% blacks who've been free of white rule for two hundred years... and still managed to blame the white man.

Don't you just love the backflips narcissistic rainbow warriors do when they're confronted with the fact that they're not the saviour that the poor discriminated against darkies have always dreamed of, and are instead treated like the borderline animal that those unfairly maligned men see all women as?

Yup dumb bitch was literally blaming white people as it was happening.
"I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face."
Absolutely amazing how their minds work.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Because they're more racist than a guy on KiwiFarms literally named @RACISM

They probably think most Haitians are walking around with voodoo-sticks and a bone in their nose.

Nigger their presidents are knee deep into vodou they literally elected a witch doctor thats the best of the best now imagine the average person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Duvalier

not to mention the average presidency was something like a year they were either deposed or killed .

Ah, Amanda Kijera. The woman who got repeatably raped by a black man in a country composed of 95% blacks who've been free of white rule for two hundred years... and still managed to blame the white man.

Don't you just love the backflips narcissistic rainbow warriors do when they're confronted with the fact that they're not the saviour that the poor discriminated against darkies have always dreamed of, and are instead treated like the borderline animal that those unfairly maligned men see all women as?

Holy shit at least she walks the talk goes to good negroes countries instead of grifting in predominatly white countries how they are raycist . Good riddance we should form an organization that encourages these women to take one way ticket to any 90 per cent blacks country .
Either way sertifiable privileged white woman moment .

 

[Marvin]

If she survives this, she should be prosecuted for child endangerment when she gets back to the US. Even if the kid is half Baron Samedi himself.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I have some relatives who were missionaries in Iraq after 2003 and even raised their daughters there. According to them, places like this are not too terrible, as long as you know where the safe part of town is, set up your compound there, know the right local people in that neighborhood, do not ever leave that area (except surrounded by people you absolutely trust), and when tensions really rise, you get the fuck out of there until it cools down.

Arabs have a tradition of hospitality, which was probably necessary for survival in a nomadic, desert-dwelling culture. I don't know if Haitians have such a tradition.

She's a nurse in an organization that provides education to hundreds of children. She's probably a genuinely good person who wanted to alleviate the suffering of others. It's very sad, but I guess there are practical benefits to the aphorism "charity begins at home."

 

[LurkTrawl]

Nigger their presidents are knee deep into vodou

Yeah? And half our politicians are balls-deep in kids. So what?