Aid workers in Haiti are traumatized by the mass graves
They followed a magnitude-5.9 temblor a day earlier that collapsed some structures.
In the sparsely populated wasteland of Titanyen, north Port-au-Prince, burial workers said the macabre task of handling the never-ending flow of bodies was traumatizing. "I have seen so many children, so many children. I cannot sleep at night and, if I do,it is a constant nightmare," said Foultone Fequiert, 38, his face covered with a T-shirt against the overwhelming stench.
The dead stick out at all angles from the mass graves -- tall mounds of chalky dirt, the limbs of men, women and children frozen together in death. "I received 10,000 bodies yesterday alone," said Fequiert.
Workers say they have no time to give the dead proper religious burials or follow pleas from the international community that bodies be buried in shallow graves from which loved ones might eventually retrieve them. "We just dump them in, and fill it up," said Luckner Clerzier, 39, who was helping guide trucks to another grave site farther up the road. An Associated Press reporter counted 15 burial mounds at Clerzier's site, each covering a wide trench cut into the ground some 25 feet (8meters) deep, and rising 15 feet (4.5 meters) into the air.
At the larger mass grave, where Fequiert toiled, three earth-moving machines cut long trenches into the earth, readying them for more cadavers.
Others struggle to stem the flow of the dead, even as time is running out even for miracles among the ruins. More than eight days after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake, the Los Angeles-based International Medical Corps said relatives found a 5-year-old in the wreckage of his home. And rescue teams were chasing tantalizing hints.
A Los Angeles County rescue team sent three dogs separately into the rubble on a street corner in Petionville, overlooking Port-au-Prince. Each dog picked up the scent of life at one spot. They screamed into the rubble in Creole: "If you hear me, bang three times." They heard no response, but vowed to continue.
"It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and each day the needles are disappearing," team member Steven Chin said.
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In the sparsely populated wasteland of Titanyen, north Port-au-Prince, burial workers said the macabre task of handling the never-ending flow of bodies was traumatizing. "I have seen so many children, so many children. I cannot sleep at night and, if I do,it is a constant nightmare," said Foultone Fequiert, 38, his face covered with a T-shirt against the overwhelming stench.
The dead stick out at all angles from the mass graves -- tall mounds of chalky dirt, the limbs of men, women and children frozen together in death. "I received 10,000 bodies yesterday alone," said Fequiert.
Workers say they have no time to give the dead proper religious burials or follow pleas from the international community that bodies be buried in shallow graves from which loved ones might eventually retrieve them. "We just dump them in, and fill it up," said Luckner Clerzier, 39, who was helping guide trucks to another grave site farther up the road. An Associated Press reporter counted 15 burial mounds at Clerzier's site, each covering a wide trench cut into the ground some 25 feet (8meters) deep, and rising 15 feet (4.5 meters) into the air.
At the larger mass grave, where Fequiert toiled, three earth-moving machines cut long trenches into the earth, readying them for more cadavers.
Others struggle to stem the flow of the dead, even as time is running out even for miracles among the ruins. More than eight days after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake, the Los Angeles-based International Medical Corps said relatives found a 5-year-old in the wreckage of his home. And rescue teams were chasing tantalizing hints.
A Los Angeles County rescue team sent three dogs separately into the rubble on a street corner in Petionville, overlooking Port-au-Prince. Each dog picked up the scent of life at one spot. They screamed into the rubble in Creole: "If you hear me, bang three times." They heard no response, but vowed to continue.
"It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and each day the needles are disappearing," team member Steven Chin said.
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Posted by Knucklz at January 21, 2010 11:42 AM 
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Categories: International
Tags: Conspiracy Health or Science Government
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