All Saints Day in Haiti - Cimetiere de Port-au-Prince

Every year in Haiti on November 1st, All Saints Day, many Haitians dress in white, black, purple, and go to Haiti's main cemetary, Cimetière de Port-au-Prince, to honor their dead

November 01 2018, All Saints' Day in Haiti was ruined this year. even the director of the Cimetière de Port-au-Prince was complaining on television because the crowd that was expected to come "fêter avec les morts au cimetière" (party with the dead, an annual ritual in Haiti) were disturbed by street protest and sporadic gun fire.

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