Though communicating inside and outside Haiti has been a huge challenge and most people have not been able to have reliable -if any – information concerning their relatives and friends, news has come, interestingly enough, from bloggers outside of Haiti, about famous people missing or already declared dead.
The bloggers of Espas Ayisyen [1] [Fr] quote a post published on Radio Kiskeya [2] [Fr], on Wednesday January 13th. It features a testimony by Haitian journalist and photographer Liliane Pierre-Paul [here is a stream of her pictures published on Flickr [3]], who draws a list of well-known people who were officially found dead after the disaster. About it she says [Fr]:
ce nombre impensable de personnalités disparues laissait le pays dans un état de quasi-vacance décisionnelle.
Here is the list to which she refers:
Hédi Anabi / Patron de la MINUSTAH
-.Luis Dacosta / No 2 de la MINUSTAH
-.Monseigneur Serge Miot / Archevêque de Port-au-Prince (Décédé au cours de l’effondrement de la Cathédrale de Port-au-Prince)
-.Le Juge Roc Cadet / Doyen du tribunal civil (Décédé au cours de l’effondrement du Palais de Justice)
-.2 sénateurs décédés au cours de l’effondrement du Parlement
-.2 ministres du gouvernement en deuil : – Ronald Beaudin – Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances qui a perdu son fils lors de la catastrophe. – Patrick Delatour qui a perdu ses parents (Son père et sa mère)
-.3 directeurs généraux qui sont morts dans leurs ministères respectifs.
-.Mirna Narcisse Théodore, directrice générale du ministère de la Condition Féminine et des Droits de la Femme.
-.Le géographe et écrivain Georges et Mireille Anglade
-.Luis Dacosta / No 2 of MINUSTAH
-.Monseigneur Serge Miot / Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (died as the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince collapsed)
-.Le Juge Roc Cadet / Dean of the Civil Court (died as the Courthouse collapsed)
-.2 Senators died as the Parliament building collapsed
-.2 Government ministers are in mourning : – Ronald Beaudin – Minister of Economy and Finances lost his son during the earthquake. – Patrick Delatour lost both parents (his father and his mother)
-.3 managing directors died in the buildings of their respective government departments.
-.Mirna Narcisse Théodore, managing director of the Ministry of Feminine Condition and Women's Rights.
-.The geographer and writer Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille.
As for Georges Anglade, Métropole Haïti published a post [4]announcing his death along with his wife [Fr]:
La scène littéraire haïtienne vient de perdre un grand homme, Georges Anglade et son épouse ont trouvé la mort lors du séisme qui a ébranlé l'île le mardi 12 janvier. L'auteur haïtien se trouvait à Port-au-Prince à l'occasion du festival Étonnants Voyageurs qui devait se dérouler du 14 au 17 janvier.
Cyberpresse.ca also wrote a post [5] questioning (or asserting!) the death of Haitian artists from the music industry [Fr]:
L'épouvantable séisme qui a frappé Haïti mardi a aussi décimé sa communauté de musiciens, chanteurs, rappeurs et professionnels de la musique résidant à Port-au-Prince, sans compter les autres artistes haïtiens de la diaspora de passage.
In the same post, Espas Ayisyen Toulouse [1] reminds readers that besides those well-known people, there are numbers of unidentified corpses in the streets [Fr]:
[…] Et une masse de “Tijosèf” c'est-à-dire des anonymes et des sans nom.
Find out more about the earthquake in Haiti on our Special Coverage page [6].