What makes it really bad and maybe even unique is that it hit their main town Port-au-Prince and erased the churches, the presidential palace, the prison, the tax office, the parliament, basically all of their infrastructure, and also all their sources of organizing relief operations, such as the churches. This has to be a nightmare, no security, and as far as I understand approx 100 000 bodies strewn about. They are trying to lay them out. Disease has to follow soon, as I can imagine all the plumbing, water and sewerage systems must be also destroyed. I have to wonder however in this day and age of sophisticated equipment how come they could not warn the country. They seem to have been completely unprepared. The President survived, so I wonder whether he must have had a bunker of sorts under his Palace, as his Palace had been completely destroyed. The Arch Bishop of the Catholic Church however died.
Agreed. This is stuff of sinners being punished dreams, quite shocking what Robertson came up with. But yes, amazing how it went for the capital and in one swoop all of the infrastructure destroyed. Totally sad.What are the odds of having the most powerful earthquake in 200 years hit the downtown of the capital of 1 of the poorest nations on the planet?
Sounds like the equivalent of a silver lining around a very dark cloud. I'm a little cynical however, as they are still the same people who have not managed to flourish at any time during their history. And the Catholic Church will probably be rebuilding its Church in full force again.
Sorry, I'm obviously not that clued up on their history. I thought they were pretty much an impoverished people before the earthquake had hit them. With a high crime rate.
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OK, that would say they can revolt, it does not say they are good at managing themselves? They seem to be pretty lousy at doing that.
Maybe they are good at making war, sort of a passionate bunch, but when they have to buckle down and do the mundane task of looking after their own people, they seem to come short with that.
Come off it Dirk, at some or other point the people have to take responsibility for their own existence. They can't keep blaming it on others. I would not even dream to compare Rwanda with Haiti, the people of Rwanda are completely different to those in Haiti, and as far as I can see for this present time anyway, much more willing to take responsibility for their own country. The energy that they have put into getting themselves on track after those awful wars, is far ahead of any of what I have seen in Haiti, people of which seem to be waiting for hand-outs most of the time, unwilling to take charge of themselves.
