In 2009, the homes of an estimated 15,000 people in the capital were destroyed.
The United Nations mission in Haiti suffered a tragic blow on Tuesday when its headquarters in Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital, were destroyed.
It began Friday morning, when an American M1 Abrams tank, on the leading edge of the marines' drive into the capital, was destroyed by an Iraqi missile in an ambush.
When the office of an Aids organisation in the capital was destroyed in the quake, a survivor heard neighbours cheering and shouting: "Thank you, Jesus, the president of the paedophiles is dead!" The commission's report said: "Prior to the earthquake, the lives of many LGBT people in Haiti were characterised by secrecy, isolation, discrimination and violence.
In December 2015, the Capital Development Authority of Islamabad submitted a report suggesting that the Christian "ugly slums" of the capital be destroyed to keep the city clean.
However, it has a very weak scientific base as most of its scientific infrastructure as well as human capital were destroyed during the 1994 genocide.
"Unless the company's return on capital exceeds its cost of capital, management is destroying shareholder wealth".
But destroyed is destroyed.
At least 19 people died and the capital, Plymouth, was destroyed by lava and ash.
Assyria was rapidly declining in power, and in 612 its hated capital, Nineveh, was destroyed by the Medes.
