PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton flew to Haiti on Saturday to join the country's president, Michel Martelly, at an official commemoration of the third anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed much of the capital, killing more than 250,000 people.
The simple, wreath-laying memorial was held at a mass burial site on a barren hillside at the outskirts of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, where neither Clinton, the U.N.'s Special Envoy for Haiti, nor Martelly made a speech.
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