{"id":2370,"date":"2020-12-25T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/?page_id=2370"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:35:03","slug":"grandes-tragedies-histoire-haiti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/grandes-tragedies-histoire-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Tragedies in the History of Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1- Slavery between 1550 and 1795<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extreme human suffering of all kinds: approximately 300,000 to 500,000 dead, not counting those who did not survive crossing the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

2- Haitian Revolution between 1795 and 1803<\/strong><\/p>\n

Severe struggle and enormous sacrifice to obtain freedom: approximately 100,000 to 150,000 dead (1 to 1.5 slaves in 5).<\/p>\n

3- Earthquake of 1842<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cap-Haitien destroyed: unknown number of victims perhaps around 3000 dead (estimate based on 50% of the population at the time).<\/p>\n

4- Hurricane n \u00b0 5 at the end of October 1935<\/strong><\/p>\n

2000 deaths.<\/p>\n

5- "Parsley" massacre of Haitians on the northern border with the Dominican Republic in October 1937<\/strong><\/p>\n

Execution of black civilians ordered by the Dominican dictator Trujillo in order to \u201cde-Haitianize\u201d according to him the northern border area of the Dominican Republic. People who could not pronounce the parsley word "Perejil" in Spanish with the "r" for Hispanic trill were considered Haitians and were killed: 20,000 to 30,000 dead.<\/p>\n

6- Hurricane Hazel of October 12, 1954<\/strong><\/p>\n

Category 2 hurricane killed 1,000 people. It destroyed 40% of the coffee trees and 50% of the country's cocoa crop. Main areas affected: Sud and Grand'Anse departments.<\/p>\n

7- Flora of the hurricane of October 4, 1963\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the deadliest storms of all time killed 8,000 people. Main affected area: South department.<\/p>\n

8- HIV epidemic from 1983 to 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great human suffering and inestimable damage to the nation's international reputation: estimated 240,000 deaths (24,000 deaths based on 2003 data).<\/p>\n

9- Neptune boat accident of 1993<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ferry Neptune sank on February 19, 1993 while sailing towards J\u00e9r\u00e9mie: between 1,500 and 2,000 dead.<\/p>\n

10- Hurricane Gordon of mid-November 1994<\/strong><\/p>\n

1,122 to 1,500 deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

11- Hurricane Jeanne September 17, 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

Severe flooding and landslides in the Artibonite department, causing particularly severe damage in the coastal city of Gona\u00efves, where the hurricane affected around 80,000 of the city's 100,000 inhabitants. The official death toll was 3,004 dead.<\/p>\n

12- Hurricane Hannah of August 8, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

540 dead. Main affected area: Gona\u00efves and Artibonite.<\/p>\n

13- Earthquake of January 12, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

The magnitude 7 earthquake largely destroyed Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and L\u00e9og\u00e2ne. It caused between 250,000 and 315,000 deaths, making it the worst tragedy in modern human history in terms of damage ratio and level, speed of destruction, and percentage of population killed.<\/p>\n

14- November 2010 cholera epidemic<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cholera epidemic that started in Artibonite around Mirebalais killed several hundred people in a few weeks. A Nepalese contingent of UN forces recently arrived from Nepal, where in August of this year there was a cholera epidemic in the city of Nepalgunj, not to mention the epidemics in 2009 and where cholera has never been eradicated , is at the origin of this disaster. The contamination was probably generated by the irresponsible discharge of water containing faeces into a stream flowing in the Artibonite River. Cholera had disappeared in Haiti more than one hundred (100) years ago. The number of victims was approximately 4,627 deaths, 248,442 infected people treated and 133,921 hospitalized as of February 25, 2011.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grandes trag\u00e9dies de l’histoire d’Ha\u00efti 1- Esclavage entre 1550 et 1795 Souffrances humaines extr\u00eames de toutes sortes: environ 300 000 \u00e0 500 000 morts sans compter ceux qui n’ont pas surv\u00e9cu \u00e0 la travers\u00e9e de l’Atlantique. 2- R\u00e9volution ha\u00eftienne entre 1795 et 1803 Lutte s\u00e9v\u00e8re et sacrifice \u00e9norme pour obtenir la libert\u00e9: environ 100 000 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2370\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haitivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}