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From: tejek	1/16/2010 1:15:40 PM
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Haiti earthquake: thousands of bodies are dumped in stench-filled mass graves On the barren hillsides around Port au Prince, nameless bodies are being unceremoniously dumped in freshly-dug mass graves as the United Nations and Haitian authorities desperately try to clear the corpses from the streets of the stricken city. There is no dignity in death for most victims of Tuesday's devastating earthquake, only an anonymous final resting place alongside thousands of others in stench-filled pits carved from the red earth. Bulldozers close the ground back over them when the graves are full. Decomposing bodies are first picked from the ground and hurled into trucks operating as makeshift mass hearses that are driving around the city. The vehicles then head for the mass graves, back up to the holes and empty out their contents. It is a grim spectacle. The desperate measures have been introduced amid fears that the decomposing corpses and the mosquitos feeding on them could spread disease. But it means that many Haitians will never know where their lost loves are buried. "You can't dig 50,000 graves," said Thomas Ewald, head of a US rescue unit that arrived on Thursday. "You get to the point where because of the logistics, you end up digging 200 very large graves. read more.......... telegraph.co.uk

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