Voice Of The Oppressed

Cameroonian Human Rights Specialist Perished In Haiti Quake

Source: Washington Post (From the Article 'Dead U.N. workers were fond of their life in Haiti'

She had fallen in love with Haiti during the heady days when she was fresh out of Smith College and Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the fledgling president of a poor country seemingly filled with promise. By Tuesday afternoon, as she sat in a meeting in a basement room of the U.N. headquarters there, Lisa Mbele-Mbong had worked in Port-au-Prince as a human rights specialist for 3 1/2 years. When the trembling began, she was the first out of the meeting to find out why.

Horror In Haiti

By Neba-Fuh

We weep with thee from far away.
Cursing nature's fury on a people deprived
Yelling  in trapped harbours
Mangled by the severity of Earth's wrath.