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Haiti marks quake with national holiday

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:28 — Dave Culver
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People walk in front of the collapsed National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Haitian President Michel Martelly announced Wednesday (Jan 11) that two years after the earthquake, and with the help of Canada's government, nearly 20,000 people who have been camped across the street from the palace, will be relocated to homes north of the capital. (AP Photo - Ramon Espinosa)

Haitians are marking the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake with church services throughout the deeply religious country.
Women in white dresses and men in dark suits walked to church through streets were unusually quiet on what is a national holiday of remembrance.

Memorial services were planned at a U.N. base and the site north of the capital where thousands of quake victims are buried. President Michel Martelly is attending Thursday's (Jan 12) opening of a new university with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The government has said the disaster killed 316,000 people and displaced 1.5 million. More than 500,000 are still in temporary settlement camps.

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Stop the Occupation of Haiti! Money for Reconstruction not Militarization!  Global Research / School of the Americas Watch

  • In addition to funding its own soldiers in Haiti under the guise of earthquake recovery, the US government has contributed 40% of the 1.5 billion spent by the UN to maintain another force of 12,000 soldiers and police, known as MINUSTAH.
  • While the name MINUSTAH is a French acronym for stabilization force, most Haitians view them as an occupation force. The recent SOAW delegation to Haiti confirmed the omnipresence of armored tanks and gun-totting soldiers throughout the streets of Port-au-Prince.
     

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