"As if an underground power had decided to wipe out"
testimony
Jean-Claude Bajeux, head of an NGO for human rights Port -au-Prince, book, Liberation , a moving testimonial about the disaster that struck Haiti.
75 reactions < http://www.liberation.fr/
Collected by Christian and Christian Losson Lionet
"Tuesday, January 12. 16:50. The roar that I had just heard me back 70 years ago, this class of eighth where I was. Everyone was immediately plunged into the courtyard. Now, on top of Petion-Ville, as there are over half a century, was total silence until suddenly begins in the streets surrounding the noise of thousands of steps, the concert of cries and questions, the great rumor generated by three million urban residents, seized by the phenomenon. On the hill climbs a white cloud that was beginning to surround us: the dust. On the road to Peggy City. both sides of the street, a river of pedestrians walking with that special bouncy cadence and concentrated which is not that the promenade while, bewildered, we consider both sides of the buildings collapsed and the bodies of dead and injured.
not access at home. The whole fence is spread like a carpet of concrete blocks in the street, with a tangle of vegetation, poles and electric son. Since then, we have learned in bits and pieces the size of the disaster. What we see here is repeated everywhere. Everybody in the street, the crowd camped in all spaces, empty streets if necessary. The famine began to be felt. The fuel is scarce. No electricity. Thousands of bodies are aligned. This is the worst earthquake in three centuries.
communications are cut off and resume on Thursday, intermittently. Everyone is trying to obey the instruction to sleep outdoors in the streets if necessary, outside the houses became threatening. Now after 48 hours, the reality is necessary. The horror would be commonplace. Powerlessness and solidarity. After the screams, tears, songs at night, in all neighborhoods, the magnitude of the disaster forced to be silent.
The amount of dead bodies is astounding. They are lined up all along the streets. The list of those we know who, yesterday, attending our meetings is growing. In our neighborhood, more than thirty dead bodies waiting to be picked. And the list goes on, goes on ... Water is scarce. Everywhere there are injured. How to feed and care for all those people who organize such services?
All major buildings, starting with the national palace, the government departments, churches, banks, hotels, schools, all collapsed. As they sat on their lower floors. It happened within minutes. Leaving thousands of people under the rubble, some die because nobody was there to liberate them. It's been 10 years since we accumulate disaster but it looks like a coup de grace as if a subterranean power had decided to wipe out the world. "
