Bellerive Says Reports of Haiti Violence Aren’t True

By Greg Quinn

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said today that the country is “calm” and that reports of major violence in the Caribbean nation are not true.

“There is a lot of talk about violence, it’s not true in Haiti,” Bellerive said in Ottawa at a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, adding that people are calm. “I am extremely impressed as prime minister by the resilience of people.”

Bellerive arrived in Canada today. He will attend a donor’s conference in Montreal tomorrow where 20 countries including the U.S., Canada, France, Brazil and Mexico will discuss the reconstruction of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake that has left more than 150,000 dead according to Haitian government reports.

Bellerive said he will use the meeting to explain “ the short-term, mid-term and long-term challenges and to discuss their support.”

“We are fully conscious that the prime responsibility of our future lay in the hands of the Haitian government and the Haitian people,” he said.

Harper told reporters that Haiti has an “unimaginable” task of rebuilding ahead.

To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Quinn in Ottawa at gquinn1@bloomberg.net

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Bellerive is a liar.

There is a surface calm, that is not reality. We had a food riot, here in Petionville a day ago in which several were killed, a few dozen injured. These type of events are to be expected.

However, one does not dare to traverse downtown Port-au-Prince, or many other areas, after dark. Rape, murder, robbery – or all three at once are the specific dangers here. Many have been killed by Preval gangs in the city after dark.

Preval’s gangs in the slums, augmented by the 65 key gang leaders freed on Preval’s personal orders 12 January, have renewed their reign of terror. They have necklaced people to instill fear.

If Haiti is so safe, why did Bellerive try to flee into the Dominican Republic on the night of the quake, with $8,000,000.00  US. It surely wasn’t his money and would feed many starving and injured Haitian children.

Collins

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