Haiti’s supreme voodoo leader has vowed to wage “war” after Evangelicals attacked a ceremony organized by his religion honoring those killed in last month’s massive earthquake. The attack on Tuesday in the capital’s sprawling Cite Soleil slum came amid rising religious tensions, as Protestant Evangelicals and other denominations recruit followers in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000. Some of the fresh converts have said they did so because they believed God caused the earthquake.
“It will be war – open war,” Max Beauvoir, supreme head of Haitian voodoo, told AFP in an interview at his home and temple outside the capital. “It’s unfortunate that at this moment where everybody’s suffering, that they have to go into war. But if that is what they need, I think that is what they’ll get.” Read more
Efforts were continuing on Saturday to resolve the “gridlock”, accepted by Bill Clinton in the distribution of international aid in Haiti while 10 Americans accused Baptists of child abduction would be transferred to prison. Read more
The legislative and senatorial elections in Haiti under the February 28 and March 3 will be postponed “to a later date, unspecified, due to the earthquake, said the official body responsible for organizing the elections.
Haitian President René Préval announced today that the bodies of “nearly 170,000″ victims of the earthquake of January 12 have already been collected, a figure higher than the latest estimates of the authorities advanced the figure of 150,000 dead.
By recklaz
Filed in Government & Politics
Tagged with Anderson Cooper, earthquake, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Earthquake relief, Haitian Relief, Petion Ville, Port au Prince, Raymond Joseph, State of the Union, temporary protected status, UNICEF
January 27th, 2010 @ 11:48 am
The Ambassador of Haiti to the United States has been invited by the White House to attend his State of the Union Barack Obama Wednesday night in Congress, it was learned from the presidency two weeks after earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean country. Read more
It has been more than 2 weeks since a major 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti’s core, the city of Port-au-Prince, and destroyed hotels, businesses, and slums. Now, day 15 has arrived and the Hotel Montana in Petion Ville hold the lives or whereabouts of at least 60 foreigners including 17 American Citizens. As hope fades for finding anyone alive, the U.S Marines and other search groups continue to dig through the dangerous rubble made of concrete blocks and slabs. They refuse to call it a search and rescue effort or a recovery. Probably because they know that in recovery, bulldozers roam the land and minimize any chances of locating the bodies of the missing Americans to be brought back to the United States for a formal burial.
Residents and citizens of Haiti are fed up with the looting that written fear in the hearts and minds of aid workers and earthquake survivors. The photo above illustrates looters will not be tolerated in a time when many Haitians are in need of a helping hand as this one. Read more
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