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Over 100,000 feared dead in horrific Haiti quake
PORT-AU-PRINCE: More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti on Wednesday after an earthquake decimated the capital Port-au-Prince, where Men remove the battered body of a young woman from the rubble in Port-au-Prince, a day after a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. (AP Photo) survivors faced a second night on streets still littered with the dead.
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"I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out. Because we have so much people on the streets right now, we don't know exactly where they were living.
"But so many, so many buildings, so many neighborhoods totally destroyed, and some neighborhoods we don't even see people, so I don't know where those people are."
Ren? Pr?val, the president of Haiti, has described the devastation after last night's earthquake as "unimaginable" as governments and aid agencies around the world rushed into action.
The presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties were destroyed in the devastating quake and 30 aftershocks.
The five-story UN peacekeeping headquarters in Port-au-Prince was also brought down by Tuesday's 7.0 quake, which the US Geological Survey said was the most powerful in Haiti in over 200 years. Everyone inside the UN building is believed to have died, France said on Wednesday.
Between 200 and 250 people normally work at the peacekeeping headquarters, located on the road from the city to the hillside district of Petionville, but it is unclear how many were in the building when the quake hit a little after 5pm local time, the deputy peacekeeping chief, Edmond Mulet, said.
The earthquake was felt as far away as Cuba.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping.
Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors. With almost no emergency services to speak of, the survivors had few other options.
"It's really a catastrophe of major proportions," Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
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Those who know a little of Haiti's history might have watched the news last night and thought: "An earthquake? What next? Poor Haiti is cursed." But while earthquakes are acts of nature, extreme vulnerability to earthquakes is manmade. And the history of Haiti's vulnerability to natural disasters - to floods and famine and disease as well as to this terrible earthquake - is long and complex, but the essence of it seems clear enough.
On Tuesday night, when we had less idea of the scope of the devastation, there was singing all over town: songs with lyrics like "O Lord, keep me close to you" and "Forgive me, Jesus." Preachers stood atop boxes and gave impromptu sermons, reassuring their listeners in the dark: "It seems like the Good Lord is hiding, but he's here. He's always here."
The day after, as the sun exposed bodies strewn everywhere, and every fourth building seemed to have fallen, Haitians were still praying . If God exists, he's really got it in for Haiti.
Haitians think so, too. Zed, a housekeeper, said God was angry at sinners around the world, but especially in Haiti. Zed said the quake had fortified her faith, and that she understood it as divine retribution.
This earthquake will make the devastating storms of 2008 look like child's play. No one knows where to go with their injured and dead, or where to find food and water. Relief is nowhere in sight. The hospitals that are still standing are turning away the injured. The headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force has collapsed. Cell and satellite phones don't work. Cars can't get through many streets, which are blocked by fallen houses. Policemen seem to have made themselves scarce.
The current state of affairs: at least 10,000 private organisations perform humanitarian missions in Haiti, yet it remains one of the world's poorest countries.
This earthquake will make the devastating storms of 2008 look like child's play. No one knows where to go with their injured and dead, or where to find food and water. Relief is nowhere in sight. The hospitals that are still standing are turning away the injured. The headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force has collapsed. Cell and satellite phones don't work. Cars can't get through many streets, which are blocked by fallen houses. Policemen seem to have made themselves scarce.
The current state of affairs: at least 10,000 private organisations perform humanitarian missions in Haiti, yet it remains one of the world's poorest countries.
But that is only part of the problem. In the arena of international aid, a great many efforts, past and present, appear to have been doomed from the start. There are the many projects that seem designed to serve not impoverished Haitians but the interests of the people administering the projects. Most important, a lot of firms seem to be unable - and some appear to be unwilling - to create partnerships with each other or, and this is crucial, with the public sector of the society they're supposed to serve.
The usual excuse, that a government like Haiti's is weak and suffers from corruption, doesn't hold - all the more reason, indeed, to work with the government. The goal of all aid to Haiti ought to be the strengthening of Haitian institutions, infrastructure and expertise.
This week, the list of things that Haiti needs, things like jobs and food and reforestation, has suddenly grown a great deal longer. The earthquake struck mainly the capital and its environs , the most densely populated part of the country, where organisations like the Red Cross and the UN have their headquarters. A lot of the places that could have been used for disaster relief - including the central hospital, such as it was - are now themselves disaster areas.
This week, the list of things that Haiti needs, things like jobs and food and reforestation, has suddenly grown a great deal longer. The earthquake struck mainly the capital and its environs , the most densely populated part of the country, where organisations like the Red Cross and the UN have their headquarters. A lot of the places that could have been used for disaster relief - including the central hospital, such as it was - are now themselves disaster areas.
"If this were a serious country, there would be relief workers here, finding the children buried underneath that house," said Florence, a paraplegic who often sits outside her house in the Bois Verna neighbourhood. The house next to hers had collapsed, and Florence said that for a time she heard the children inside crying.
Why, then, turn to a God who seems to be absent at best and vindictive at worst? Haitians don't have other options. The country has a long legacy of repression and exploitation; international peacekeepers come and go; the earth no longer provides food; jobs almost don't exist. Perhaps a God who hides is better than nothing.
Why, then, turn to a God who seems to be absent at best and vindictive at worst? Haitians don't have other options. The country has a long legacy of repression and exploitation; international peacekeepers come and go; the earth no longer provides food; jobs almost don't exist. Perhaps a God who hides is better than nothing.
Haiti's raging God - lol ,God is perfect in all his doings. Remember once you have crossed the line of given mercy, the next is judgement left.All the Jesuit would perish in coming times. All the mumbo jumbo will get exposed. Judgement is over these middleast based religionist. Next 10years would be crucial..defame of genuine saints by untruth peoples......Mahatma and indians (specially Hindu dies) because of the Sins of West and Xian in particular...Jews died because of the Sin of Europe and Catholic in particular...Sanathan dharm sufferred because of the Sin of the same..now deadly days are on the way...lets see wat happen in these comeing days...faith to god will be shaken...Beware
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