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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Ebola crematorium fires up each night in Liberia disturbing area |
| 2014-11-13 |
| snippets from the longer article which has a great WAPO pic of the crematorium lighting up the night sky. It is good they are not burying because this will stop disease from spreading The cremation of Ebola victims in Liberia began in August, when President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued an order saying that it was a critical step in halting the spread of the virus. It wasn’t until September that Boystown entered this arena, when a local Indian community offered the government full access to a crematorium they’d built there 30 years earlier. At 9 p.m. each night, it begins. Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia. The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby. Hot orange flames leap into the sky. “Not a single night passes [without them] burning bodies," Albert Reeves, a community leader in Boystown, told AllAfrica. “The scary thing about it is the heavy explosives; we don’t know whether it’s the heads of the dead bodies that explode like that… it’s like a mini-earthquake; the entire ground shakes.” Boystown residents are protesting now. For the majority of Liberians, whose burial rites involving washing and touching of the body form the foundation of their culture, it’s a tragedy of unfathomable proportions—forcing an abandonment of tradition that causes profound pain for the victims’ family. “We are not used to burning bodies and hearing the sound of our fellow Liberians’ bodies exploding—it’s painful,” Carolyn Doelu, a 30-year-old resident of Boystown told local news. “The odor of burned bodies enters my house. At night, when they start burning them, I find it very difficult to sleep.” |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #2 Burn at night so the EPA doesn't see the smoke. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-11-13 05:31 |
| #1 sorry mods should be in "non WOT" - slip of the finger |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-11-13 00:27 |