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. "
Seyism 12 Janvye 2010
Ann Sonje Sila Yo Ki Pa Avè Nou Ankò!
12 Janvye 2010 - 12 Janvye 2012, sa fè jou pou jou 2 lane depi gwo kokenn katastwòf sa a te detwi Ayiti.
Jounen jodi-a, Nou vle swete bon kouray ak tout frè'n ak sè'n yo. Yon jou soufrans lan gen pou li fini pou nou.
Toujou Kenbe la. Pa lage.
"Haiti to start clearing camp near National Palace"
January 12, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of the most visible symbols of Haiti's earthquake will soon be dismantled as officials relocate nearly 20,000 people from a tent camp outside the collapsed National Palace, the government said ...
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"On Second Anniversary of Earthquake, Cholera Continues to Cripple Haiti"
Jan. 8, 2011
Cat Wise
Mario Tama/Getty Images
With more than 7,000 dead and half a million people sickened, a U.N. health agency is calling the cholera outbreak in Haiti "one of the largest epidemics of the disease in modern history to ...
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"More lawsuits filed over sex abuse of Haitian boys"
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Seventeen Haitian men are suing Fairfield University in Connecticut, the Society of Jesus and others alleging they failed to protect them from a man who sexually abused them when they were poor children or young adults attending a school he founded in Haiti.
The lawsuits bring to 21 the number of alleged victims suing Douglas Perlitz and the others. Perlitz was sentenced in 2010 to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing children at Project Pierre Toussaint.
The victims ranged from ages 9 to 21 at the time of the abuse and ...
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"Long arms of law embrace Haiti"
Vancouver police, other local officers make mission trip to help train counterparts
Haitian police get a few weeks of training, a uniform, handcuffs, a gun and 10 bullets to start their careers, said Vancouver police officer Charlie Ahn, who recently returned from a mission trip to the country. After that, they are pretty much on their own.
“I feel like they’re doing the same work we’re doing here, but it’s just way more dangerous for them,” Ahn said.
To help level the playing field, Ahn and five officers from other Portland-area agencies traveled to Haiti in November to help train members of its police force, provide them with donated safety equipment and ...
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"Dominican Government tells Canada daily it cannot bear Haiti’s weight"
Santo Domingo. - Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales on Tuesday accused Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail of distorting Dominican Republic’s relation with Haiti, in a recent Op-Ed which says that denying descendants of Haitians of Dominican citizenship is “unfair.”
In a letter to the daily, the official called Dominican Republic-Haiti relations normal, harmonious and close, “characteristics extended to Haitian citizens who live and ...
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"President Retires Raunchy Singing Act"
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
December 22, 2011
Michel Martelly will not perform again as his alter ego, Sweet Micky, after all, an adviser said Thursday. Mr. Martelly, who before his election in April had a long career as a singer known for dressing in drag and disrobing on stage, had said in September he would ...
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"Haitian minister robbed by gunmen in Santiago de los Caballeros"
24 December 2011
Santiago, DR.– A presidential adviser in Haiti, Damian Merlo, said late Friday that Minister of Haitians Living Abroad Daniel Supplice was attacked while visiting the Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
Without offering further details, Haiti's newspaper Le Matin reported that four members of the Dominican police force robbed Supplice and his family Thursday of his cell phone and ...
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"Jack suspicious of Blatter's Caribbean move"
Football heads meet in Zurich
By Nikita Braxton-Benjamin
Dec 24, 2011
FORMER FIFA vice president Jack Warner has called the meeting of Caribbean football presidents in Zurich, Switzerland, days ago a plan by FIFA head Sepp Blatter to recolonise the Caribbean.
A decision was taken during the meeting to form a Normalisation Committee to execute tasks on behalf of the Caribbean Football Union.
Warner said such a move could lead to Caribbean countries being unable to qualify for the World Cup and CFU losing ties with the Confederation of North, Central American and ...
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"38 Haitian migrants die when boat sinks off Cuban coast"
CTVNews
The Associated Press
Dec. 25, 2011
According to an official communique read out on state television, 87 others
were rescued by Cuban civil defence forces after Saturday's shipwreck, including...
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"Haitian situation still critical, Rotarians told"
Carmi, Ill
Recovery from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 is excruciatingly slow, members and guests of the Carmi Rotary Club learned Thursday.
The speaker for the club's weekly luncheon meeting was local Rotarian Morris McCall, who (along with former President Jimmy and First Lady Rosalind Carter and a large group of volunteers with Habitat for Humanity) recently visited the Caribbean Sea nation.
McCall explained that even this long after the massive earthquake, which killed over 240,000 people, life in Haiti has not even started to recover. Although most of the earthquake debris has been cleared away, virtually no rebuilding has begun, he said. Most residents in the hardest hit areas are still living in tents, and sanitation conditions are virtually nonexistent.
The Habitat group set out to build as many homes as possible, to move some of the residents out of tents into their own homes. That is very hard to accomplish in a nation such as Haiti, which is still very shaky politically, McCall said.
The homes built were very basic by American standards. Each home is 15 feet square, with no electricity or running water. All cooking is done outside, so there was no space needed for kitchens. The residents use the structures to sleep in and spend the rest of their time elsewhere, McCall said.
To prevent future disasters, each home was built to a code to withstand hurricanes and ...
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Yon Bit (Digit) se yon grenn karaktè nan sistèm nimerik la. Li kapab swa Desimal swa Binè. Kèlkeswa sistèm nan, depi li chita sou yon baz done ki pa kontinyèl li reprezante yon Digit. Yon òdinatè itilize ...