In front of the Port-au-Prince city cemetery hangs a placard: "No more room for dead. All places are occupied." Behind it, the fresh surface of a recently-dug mass grave can be seen with a human leg bone rolling around on top among rags of clothes. "The upper layer of bodies lies just 30 centimetres under the surface," says Emmanuel Gaudin, a local resident who witnessed the burial process a few weeks ago.
The 12 January earthquake killed more than 220,000 Haitians, left 1 million peopl...
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