Sean Penn’s charity begins demo of Haiti palace-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The aid group led by Hollywood star Sean Penn has begun demolishing the National Palace that was destroyed in Haiti’s powerful 2010 earthquake.

The Haitian government invited reporters Friday to see Penn’s humanitarian organization, J/P HRO, begin the three-month effort of tearing down the presidential home so it can be rebuilt from scratch.

The earthquake damaged hundreds of buildings in the capital of Port-au-Prince and in other cities to the south. The National Palace was among them, and it came to symbolize the scale of devastation brought by the disaster along with government inertia.

Penn’s group volunteered to demolish the National Palace and the dollar amount hasn’t been released.

The government of Michel Martelly is still trying to figure out who will be responsible for the reconstruction

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

I think this is another crime against what is left of Haiti’s heritage. The National Palace and Cathedral were all that was left of the Nation’s history. The Cathedral is gone and the National Palace has collapsed.

Having said that, I believe the remains of the palace should be left as a memorial to the past… a memorial to the 300,000 or more people who lost their lives in the 2010 quake.

Tearing the palace down will just create another ugly parking lot in the city center.

Perhaps Martelly will make a few millions by selling it to some foreign group.

Leave the Palace alone.

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