Je pense que faire payer, sous la menace des canons, un peuple qui a gagné sa liberté et son indépendance par la force de l’espérance et par le sang, est une injustice incroyable, un crime sans précédent et surtout sans succession dans l’histoire de notre planète.
Father of Haitian Independence, January 1st, 1804.
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques (1758-1806), black leader and self-proclaimed emperor of Haiti (1804-1806).
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Papa Endepandans Ayiti, 1 Janvye 1804.
Jan Jak Desalin premye chèf Leta peyi d Ayiti te fèt nan Grann Rivyè di Nò jou ki te 2 fevriye 1758, epi li mouri nan Pon-Rouj jou ki te 17 Oktòb 1806. Pandan dire tan li te sou pouvwa a, li te proklame tèt li Anperè peyi d Ayiti.
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Pawòl Selèb : « koupe tèt, boule kay »
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Toussaint Louverture
" By overthrowing me, you have merely succeeded in cutting the trunk of Saint Domingue's Tree of Liberty: but it will grow again, for the roots are deep, and many. "
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" Nou ranvèse mwen, kidonk nou rive rache pyebwa libète moun nwè yo nan Sendomeng; men li gen pou li pouse ankò nan rasin li yo paske rasin sa yo fon nan tè epi yo anpil. "
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" En me renversant, on n'a abattu à Saint-Domingue que le tronc de l'arbre de la liberté des nègres; il repoussera par les racines, parce qu'elles sont profondes et nombreuses. "
“Governor General to visit Haiti”
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean will head to Haiti next week for a brief visit to witness the reconstruction efforts that began shortly after the country was hit by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 12.
The visit will be the Governor General’s first trip to Haiti since the earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 and …
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“Obama to Haitians: 'You will not be forsaken'”
Anonymous writes "Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama promised $100 million in immediate American relief aid to Haiti on Thursday - an amount the president said will grow in the year ahead.
"This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership," he said at the White House. "One of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is …
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“Haiti govt gets only 1 cent of every US aid dollar”
Anonymous writes "By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 8:22
Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.
Less than two weeks after President Obama announced an initial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. government spending on the disaster has tripled to …
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“French president makes historic visit to Haiti, pledges help”
Anonymous writes "Wednesday, February 17,2010
By McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in a landmark visit Wednesday that his country would cancel Haiti"s $56 million in debt as it pledged hundreds of millions in aid to help its former colony recover from a crippling quake that claimed more than 200,000 lives.
Signaling a fresh chapter in diplomacy between Haiti and France, Sarkozy's four-hour trip marks the first time a French leader has set foot in Haiti since the Caribbean nation expelled the French in a slave revolt and …"
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“Protecting HIV-positive mothers and their children after the quake in Haiti”
By Diana Valcarcel
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 2 March 2010 – Jeanne (not her real name) sat on a mattress in her tent in a makeshift settlement for displaced people that has sprung up in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. As the afternoon sun burned through the plastic walls of the tent, she told her story.
Jeanne is 28 years old, HIV-positive and six months pregnant. On 12 January, the day a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, she was walking home from the market. Her first thought was for her unborn baby, and…
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"EU envoy visits Haiti, defends lateness of trip”
Mar 3,2010
European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton visited quake-hit Haiti with pledges of long-term aid and sought to defend her delay in making the trip.
"I wouldn't have been helpful, I would have got in the way," Ashton told AFP as she…
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“Haiti charges U.S. missionaries with child kidnapping”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Ten U.S. missionaries were charged on Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association for illegally trying to take children out of Haiti
The 10 Americans from two Idaho-based Baptist churches were formally charged with "kidnapping minors and …
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“Millionaire acts to aid Haitians”
The Miami property developer, volunteering after Haiti's earthquake, was horrified to see children sleeping in the dirt under makeshift tents of bed sheets propped up on sticks. A global, billion-dollar aid effort should be able to do better, he thought.
He decided he could do better himself.
Michael Capponi flew home, collected donated tents, flew them back to Haiti and…
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“Obama to Haitians: 'You will not be forsaken'”
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama promised $100 million in immediate American relief aid to Haiti on Thursday - an amount the president said will grow in the year ahead.
"This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership," he said at the White House. "One of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is …
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“Emotional Michaelle Jean moves Calgary crowd with song at Glenbow forum”
CALGARY - In a powerful and melodious voice that left a crowd of about 200 Calgarians holding its collective breath, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean broke into a Haitian song that her mother used to sing to her when she was a child.
The emotional moment underscored the message she brought to a Calgary forum about the power of art to heal, whether it's here, or …"
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