punisa
13th January 2010, 20:43
Hundreds of thousands of people are feared dead, Haiti's prime minister says, after a massive earthquake destroyed most of the capital city Port-au-Prince
Terrible tragedy wouldn't cause such a high death toll if the country was not plundered by the imperialists for years.
Today Haiti is one of the poorest and most starving nations on Earth.
If people had decent housing quake causalities would be much lesser.
Here is a good documentary that will tell a story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw
some interesting info about former president Aristide:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. He was then ousted in a February 2004 rebellion in which former soldiers participated. He alleged that he was kidnapped by the United States military and forced into exile in South Africa.
In 2003, Aristide demanded that France pay Haiti over 21 billion U.S. dollars, what he said was the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs Haiti was forced to pay Paris after winning its freedom from France as the hemisphere's first independent black nation 200 years ago.
Terrible tragedy wouldn't cause such a high death toll if the country was not plundered by the imperialists for years.
Today Haiti is one of the poorest and most starving nations on Earth.
If people had decent housing quake causalities would be much lesser.
Here is a good documentary that will tell a story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw
some interesting info about former president Aristide:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. He was then ousted in a February 2004 rebellion in which former soldiers participated. He alleged that he was kidnapped by the United States military and forced into exile in South Africa.
In 2003, Aristide demanded that France pay Haiti over 21 billion U.S. dollars, what he said was the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs Haiti was forced to pay Paris after winning its freedom from France as the hemisphere's first independent black nation 200 years ago.