Posted on 01/23/2010 5:06:58 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Here is video of CNN's Brian Todd showing how the thousands of bodies in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti are being buried in trenches outside the city, along with earthquake debris. Todd went to the site where dump trucks are seen dumping loads of debris that also include bodies of people who died in the Earthquake. One worker said as many as 6,000 dead had been buried at that site in a single day, but it is difficult to even know how many are being buried.
A report like this leaves you speechless. The horror of what Haiti is going through is beyond words. . . . (VIDEO)
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Gotta bury ‘em someplace.
Mass Graves, thousands buried? I only saw 2 bodies filmed from several diffrent angles.
And just what are they supposed to do, take them home and marry them? Thousands dead and you have to do something because rotting bodies are an EXTREME health hazard.
CNN you are indeed leftist scum!
Bush’s fault.
So the Red Cross objects because they’re not “photographing” the bodies for later identification...give me a break.
Those folks are doing the best they can in the situation. If they took the time to photograph bodies, the work would be slowed to a crawl and sanitation concerns would go unheeded.
If disaster strikes New York City or any of the large cities, expect this same scene of people not looking for family members, standing around wringing their hands and not identifying bodies. Lots of unclaimed unidentified bodies will end up in landfills.
In the Galveston hurricane of 1900 in which 8,000 were killed, at first they loaded the dead on barges and towed them way out to sea and dumped them, but many washed ashore. So they realized they had to burn the bodies for sanitation reasons, so they were incinerated along with other debris. A good account of the hurricane is found in the book, “Isaac’s Storm”.
That incident pales compared to this one. It doesn’t appear as if they are loading dump trucks with human bodies en masse, but instead as rubble is cleared any bodies or body parts in the rubble come along with it. It’s such a shame. Imagine the Trade Towers 100’s of times over. It took years to clean up that site and it was just a few city blocks. This is an entire city of millions. There aren’t the time, manpower or machinery to sift through the rubble slowly and carefully as was done in NYC. That would take decades with millions of people’s lives put on hold in the meantime. It’s an unimaginable horror.
Meanwhile the cruise ships dock at the harbor and the vacationers play on the beach. Incredible.
The cruise ships are docking on the north coast of Haiti, many hours by road from Port au Prince. Should the thousands of Haitians who benefit from that trade also be cut off from their livelihood, to make some point?
While I can feel a sense of revulsion for people vacationing so near hell-on-earth, I can also see how Haiti can use what ever capital is generated from tourist trade, now more than ever.
No, Haiti is a big place, I was referring to a thread here in the last few days that said that the cruise ships were docking in Port au Prince harbor.
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