ACI Prensa Staff, May 9, 2024 / 18:25 pm
The tragedy that Haiti is experiencing has reached a point where “it runs the risk of provoking a true genocide in the country,” warned Father Henry Marc Siméon, director of the communications office of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital.
In an interview with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Siméon pleaded for support: “The people [of Haiti] who are crying out for help today need men and women of goodwill from all countries to come to their aid to help us, to get out of this situation we’re living in.”
The priest noted that Pope Francis has made repeated calls for peace and in support of the people of Haiti. Just on April 28, on the occasion of the recitation of the Regina Caeli when he was in Venice, the Holy Father prayed “that the God of peace illuminate hearts so that the will for dialogue and reconciliation may grow in everyone.”
Siméon shared the drama they are experiencing daily: “Some say that today Port-au-Prince has become an open-air cemetery. You walk down the street amid corpses. There is not a day when, if we walk through the center of the city, we don’t come across corpses of people whose identity and origin we don’t know, and whose families sometimes cannot give them a decent burial.”