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Each crucifix in this cemetery in Titanyen near Port-au-Prince is the grave of a victim of the earthquake of January 12, 2020. REUTERS / Jorge Silva / File Photo

It was January 12, 2010, at 4:53 pm, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale shook Haiti before dozens of other aftershocks. Hundreds of thousands of homes are destroyed and the toll is very heavy, more than 200,000 dead, 300,000 injured, 1.5 million homeless. Special edition with our guests and our reports on this event that has had a great impact on Haiti and around the world.

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Guests:

♦ François Grünewald , watch and prospective director of Groupe URD (Urgence-Réhabilitation-Développement). François Grünewald has visited Haiti many times before and very quickly after the earthquake. He quickly carried out an on-site study and then returned several months later. He talks about aid and reconstruction and the bitterness of the people 10 years later.

♦ Josette Bruffaerts-Thomas , teacher, president of the Haiti Futur association

♦ Sarah Mongérard, who was there on the day of the earthquake, a student at the École normale supérieure in Port-au-Prince. She recounts what she did when everything collapsed around her.

With duplexes in Port-au-Prince, our correspondent in Haiti Amélie Baron and our special correspondent Stefanie Schuler with Laënnec Hurbon , sociologist and researcher at CNRS.

► All our contents on the earthquake in Haiti
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Haitian blogger Tilou Jean-Paul remembers this terrible day and the tribute of Togolese blogger David Kpelly to the land of Haiti and to those who live there. 01/12/2020 Listen

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The Haitian Mondoblogger Widlore Mérancourt (@Widlore) is sorry that the “surge of solidarity” between Haitians did not last long after the earthquake of January 2010 https://t.co/lSwaI0gY1K pic.twitter. com / ERoVGnnEvu

Mondoblog (@mondoblog) January 12, 2020

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“Powerless, I witnessed the deaths of so many friends and comrades that I loved. And who haunt my dreams every night ”, Mirline Pierre (@MirlineP) Haitian world bloggerhttps: //t.co/8OmVP5t5Ay pic.twitter.com/k2vmkNOklx

Mondoblog (@mondoblog) January 12, 2020