Crisis in Haiti: Hundreds of bodies pile up in morgue

[seemslikeadream]

Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - 3 hours ago
... The failure of Haiti's government to attend to the most basic needs of the poor ... in the capital had added to the corpses piling up in the morgue, three trucks ...

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Haitian hillside a dumping ground for bodies

BY JOE MOZINGO

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TITANYEN, Haiti - Near an old car axle on a dry hillside, the small bleached-white skull of a child rests under a thorny bush. Nearby a pelvis is still wrapped in the tattered elastic band of a boy's underwear.

Bones are scattered for hundreds of yards -- teeth, femurs, vertebrae, skulls -- half covered, like the broken bottles and car parts, in the fine red dust of this eroded coastline.

This is where the main morgue in Port-au-Prince, 20 miles away, brings the destitute and unclaimed, the thousands of people who die every year with no means for a private funeral.

Administrators at the General Hospital, which runs the morgue, say they make sure they properly bury the bodies. But some say otherwise.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8222762.htm



GRIM LANDSCAPE: Milo Austan, who walks the hills north of Port-au-Prince for sticks to make brooms, says he has come across human remains for years. PETER ANDREW BOSCH/HERALD STAFF

[seemslikeadream]

1. Dead appear and disappear mysteriously in Haiti

UNCLAIMED: A worker, carrying the body of a baby, makes his way through corpses piling up at the General Hospital's morgue in Port-au-Prince after weeks of political violence. PETER ANDREW BOSCH/HERALD STAFF

By Ibon Villelabeitia
REUTERS
7:04 a.m. March 15, 2004



Statistics of people killed since bloodshed began on Feb. 5 have fallen victim to chaos. Estimates by rights groups range from 200 to several hundred. Many killings occurred in the provinces, where relatives are afraid of taking their dead to hospitals for fear of persecution and bury them in secret.

U.S. Marines spearheading an international peace mission say they have killed at least six people in battles. But they admit that helping the Red Cross retrieve the bodies has been difficult. In some cases, U.S. Marines say, bodies of gunmen vanish after nighttime shootouts, leaving behind only casings and a trail of blood leading off into the labyrinth of slums.

"Once dead, the body has no value," said Max Beauvoir, a 69-year-old "hougan," or voodoo priest. "The real value of the human being lies within his spirit. Your spirit makes you beautiful or horrible," said Beauvoir, sitting in his white linen trousers in his voodoo temple outside Port-au-Prince.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040315-0704-haiti-dead.html

[peacetalksforall]

2. And some of those corpses are brought to you by OUR ILLUSTRIOUS

ADMINISTRATION and the cabal that calls the shots. Then, include the World Bank and some Developmental Banks and the corporations of our country....all in cahoots with the French. And only a few people are saying anything against the takeover - no majorleaders of the world and no citizens of major ocuntries of the world.

[Dirk39]

3. This could teach the U.S. liberals a lot about...

Europe's "anti-war" agenda against the war in Iraq, esp. about the french government. But only a few people care.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[tlcandie]

5. Thanks Dirk39.. I've seen AND am paying attention!!

:hi:

[dax]

4. Mostly the US and IMF-they embargoed and froze the money

They don't even have clean water, which if the loans had been released, even if Aristides' government bought themselves a few suvs, they would probably have fixed that problem by now. The other piece is the economy-the purpose of IMF is to make economies dependent markets for the big corporations. They order them to allow agribusiness dumping and destroy all the small farmers. Then they tell them what to plant as a cash crop, usually with misguided inappropriate methods using chemicals and seeds that are not native to the country. When those crops fail, or even if they don't, everyone is now an indentured servant because they can no longer grow what they need to survive. In Haiti, they had a chicken parts industry. Tyson dumped the dark meat pieces Americans don't eat and drove them all out of business. Families used to keep pigs as a hedge against hard times. You could eat them, use their hides etc. During an American occupation the colonial junta decided to kill the pigs-all the pigs (the pigs were messing with the cash crops). When the people were starving, they realized it was a mistake, but the pigs they brought in from Iowa just could not survive in Haiti's climate.

[struggle4progress]

6. kick

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