Haiti Earthquake Survivor Protest Over Evictions From The Django Camp
Haiti Protesters laid down in the middle of one of the busiest streets in the Haitian capital Monday to protest efforts to remove them from a private lot where they have been living since the January 2010 earthquake.
The approximately 60 to 80 protesters began the peaceful protest in the Delmas section of Port-au-Prince about 6 a.m. local time (7 a.m. EDT; 1100 GMT) after more than a dozen police officers showed up, apparently to evict them from a lot where several hundred people have been living in tents and small shacks.
Haitian officials have stepped up forced removals in recent weeks even though President Michel Martelly has said he is opposed to them.
Two weeks ago, the mayor of Port-au-Prince paid families $250 a piece to leave the National Stadium in downtown Port-au-Prince. Some of the families went to a field along Rue Bicentanaire, a major street that runs alongside the bay
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