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The grimmest of anniversaries

Posted on by Moni Basu

Anniversary stories are common in journalism. A year ago in Haiti, an earthquake devastated the country… Anniversaries a great peg to revisit stories. Number 10 is a big one and I am sure journalists around the country are gearing up to tell all sorts of stories as we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 …

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What have they done?

Posted on by Moni Basu

I wandered through the Port-au-Prince cemetery today with a Haitian colleague looking for his family crypt. His heart was full of trepidation. What would he find? Had someone tossed his ancestor’s bodies and stuffed fresh ones in there instead. That’s what has happened to so many crypts. We stepped over bones and skulls spread through …

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