 Mayor Jean @-@ Yves Jason said that officials argued for hours about what to do with the volume of corpses . The government buried many in mass graves , some above @-@ ground tombs were forced open so bodies could be stacked inside , and others were burned . Mass graves were dug in a large field outside the settlement of Titanyen , north of the capital ; tens of thousands of bodies were reported as having been brought to the site by dump truck and buried in trenches dug by earth movers . Max Beauvoir , a Vodou priest , protested the lack of dignity in mass burials , stating , " ... it is not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion , it is desecration " . 
 Mayor Jean @-@ Yves Jason said that officials argued for hours about what to do with the volume of corpses . The government buried many in mass graves , some above @-@ ground tombs <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> forced open so bodies could be stacked inside , and others <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> burned . Mass graves <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> dug in a large field outside the settlement of Titanyen , north of the capital ; tens of thousands of bodies <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> reported as <a href='been_done' title='5'><mark>having</mark></a> been brought to the site by dump truck and buried in trenches dug by earth movers . Max Beauvoir , a Vodou priest , protested the lack of dignity in mass burials , stating , " ... it <a href='negative_concord' title='6'><mark>is</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='7'><mark>not</mark></a>in our culture to bury people in such a fashion , it <a href='drop_aux' title='8'><mark>is</mark></a>desecration " . 
Mayor Jean @-@ Yves Jason said that officials argued for hrs about what to do with the volume of corpses . The government buried many in mass graves , some above @-@ ground tombs was forced open soo bodies could b stacked inside , and others was burned . Mass graves was dug in a large field outside the settlement of Titanyen , north of da capital ; tens of thousands of bodies was reported as done been brought to the site by dump truck and buried in trenches dug by earth movers . Max Beauvoir , a Vodou priest , protested the lack of dignity in mass burials , stating , " ... it ain't in our culture to bury people in such a fashion , it desecration " .