Never Again. Mass Graves At Titayen

As most of you know, on January 17, 2010, I watched a segment on 60 Minutes regarding the earthquake in Haiti that changed the course of my life and for the last three days the camera man from that episode, Stan Wilkins, has accompanied me throughout the country.

Today we traveled to the mass grave sites in Titanyen.

For a couple of hours we walked, and documented, the disgraceful and heartbreaking condition of the mass grave site most known to Haitian’s and the International community. Weeds, cattle manure and human bones littered the site.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, Stan called out to me and indicated that a nearby ox, (one of five such animals that were grazing next to the governments memorial) had a bone in its mouth. Upon closer inspection it was a femur bone and the other oxen began to vie for its possession.

Outraged, I contemplated wrestling the bone out of the oxen’s mouth but chose not to out of concern that my colleagues would view me as a crazy person. In the wake of this event, I have cried repeatedly and I’m ashamed of myself for doing nothing.

I will never again worry about doing what my heart and soul tells me to do. Never again.

This is all I have to say for today.