When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on Saturday and felt the ground begin to shake beneath her feet, the 62-year-old Haitian was flooded by terrifying memories of the earthquake a decade ago that devastated her hometown.
For many in the poor Caribbean nation, Saturday's major quake - which killed more than 300 people and left hundreds injured - revived the trauma of the Jan. 12, 2010 temblor from which the country was still reeling."The neighbors, I saw them running and running. I said ‘What’s wrong?’ They said ‘Earthquake!’ and I rushed to the front door," Jean-Baptiste said. "All of a sudden, I had all those images of January 12 coming to my mind and I felt really, really scared.
Estimates of the number of dead from that tremor vary widely, from below 100,000 to as high as the government’s 316,000. "The trauma is coming back. I am home and we are just wondering, are we sleeping inside? Are we going to sleep on the veranda?" "I am strong but this affected me psychologically and that is probably the same as the rest of the population."
Efforts to rebuild have been hampered by a flawed international aid system, corruption and political turmoil, experts said. Just last month, President Jovenel Moise wasFonie Pierre, director of Catholic Relief Services for Les Cayes, 49, said Saturday's quake was so strong that she could not bring herself to move, and as she stood there in her home, she had flashbacks from 2010.
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