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Haiti gives conflicting counts for quake deaths No kidding!! Why would you expect anything better from the government?

On February 10, 2010 MSNC announced that it remains unclear who's doing the counting in the quake-devastated in Haiti. The way the situation was handled by the ineffective, incompetent corrupt government, it was bound to be disastrous. This mishap clearly shows how the framework of government that is found in Haiti is that of a Prime Minister fashioned on the old British Parliamentary system where the power is vested in the government and there are two chambers in a national assembly. The government operates as an authoritarian system often without the will of the voters.

Why would anyone expect anything better from that government? The infrastructure of Haiti has been demolished long before the earthquake days ago, there are no hospitals, no purification of water, no police, no government, no national crisis or emergency center, no fire departments, no system of order, no nothing in Haiti. For years this country has been the victim of a corrupt series of leaders. The funds that have been donated to Haiti have enabled it to become a country where it depends totally on aid and relief.

If the government did not think it was necessary to have the minimum necessary life supports measures available to save lives in the event of a disaster, why would he cared how to account for the dead? Haiti is a country where not one penny has been invested in infrastructure for the past twenty years other than a government palace which oddly enough was demolished in the earthquake. Jean Renee Preval is the current leader since 2008 he has been fending off riots over food prices. Haiti has always depended on aid and its government has totally ignored its own self reliance. Haiti has 10,000 aid organizations that are totally disorganized and are functioning as government because there is no government presently.

All the past leaders since the era of Duvalier, have had little concern for the country, expect to enrich their own pockets. The political corruption in the country is so tremendous that no one has any faith in the government's existence. Haiti's very own government is responsible and has caused its demise not the earthquake, and had the systems of an organized and civilized democracy been in place we would not see the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Haiti today.

In 2006 over 4 years ago Haiti was declared the most corrupt country in the world and its distinction as such has continued to exist for years. You can blame Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted in 2004 as he was in power for 3 years and accomplished no investments in Haiti, no agriculture, no infrastructure, and no system of economics for the country to be self reliant. If you look at the political history of Haiti you will see a series of leaders who have been compliant in corruption and they have allowed the country to deteriorate into its present state. There was a distinct accusation of voter fraud in the year 2000 election and the opposition plus the United States believed it was fraud and there were irregularities in the election.

Since 2000 Haiti has had one bad leader after another, I would blame all of these spineless politicians "Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Yvon Neptune, Gerard Latortue, Jacques-Edouard Alexis, Michele Pierre-Louis" for Haiti's demise and wish I could bring all of them to justice and make them pay for all the genocide crimes they have committed against the Haitian people. These leaders are responsible for the deaths in this earthquake and have destroyed what little democracy it had in the past which today is still non-existent. Church people do not make good government policy and Haiti has its church foreigners from religious groups that are ineffective in rescuing Haiti from being the ghetto of the Caribbean. Wars between religion and Haitians' culture have been a division and have created confusion with the people of Haiti.

During the rescue effort, the government was nowhere to be found, they allowed the bodies to be buried and televised all over the world. They allowed the media to take people's dignities away from them. The government suffered no lost, the poor and the injured lost everything. We lost our country's capital, landmarks alone with more than 100,000 of our mothers, fathers, children, brothers and sisters. We also lost a very important aspect of our lives "our dignity and sense of privacy. Almost every single Haitian family who lives in Haiti is proud to say that they have a family member abroad they can count on.

When departing from Haiti, to escape poverty, and care for those we leave behind in Haiti, we sometimes enter other countries illegally. This is not something we as a people are proud of, however; sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. We do this because our country does not offer the resources we need to sustain our family lives. Our government is by far one of the worst of its kind.

In a natural disaster fatalities are expected; it is unfortunate and unpreventable. Even in other disasters there is usually great loss and fatalities. There were many disasters in other countries and in the United States, such as hurricane Katrina, the Armenian earthquake, the Iranian earthquake, and the South Asian Tsunami, but based on my recollection, the mass grave burial process for these countries were not televised. Why was the Haiti mass grave burial televised in such an inhumane fashion? The answer to that question is because the corrupt government does not care about its people.

One thing that the media needs to understand is that, Haitian people take pride in providing proper burial for their loved ones after their deaths. After the disaster, the people who are living abroad were not allowed to visit the country to say goodbye, nor to retrieve and identify the bodies of their loved ones. These bodies were disposed of and televised for the entire world to see. CNN, MSNBC, FOX News decided to televise the entire event without any regards for those living abroad and the Haitian government allowed it to be broadcasted live.

This day we will never forget! We will never forget how much we have lost, how our lives were disrupted by this disaster. Time will heal almost all of our pain, but we will never forget how our family's remains were disposed of in an inhumane fashion on national television for the whole world to see. And we owe all of these graphic memories to the media and those who allowed it to happen. I understand that it was necessary to bury the bodies in order to stop them from being decomposed, in my opinion it could have been done in a more humane fashion. After all, no matter where we came from, no matter where we live, we are all humans. We simply wish one day we could have a government who will care more for its people other than their deep pockets.

It is a shame that the untold deaths in the earthquake have been hidden by bulldozers and orders to burn the bodies, hiding the dead in open mass graves are based in a policy to hide the corruption of this country and its inhumanity to its own people. The US has been supporting and embracing a crime syndicate government in Haiti which is a place where the governments have stolen millions of dollars in financial assistance.