Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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Trust the UN?

Darfur, Nigeria, and now Haiti:

Nearby, a human vertebra stuck out of a pile of sludge topped by a tire, one of the unclaimed flood victims that residents buried because so many were rotting before officials ordered mass burials.
Officials say more than 1,500 people died in the storm and some 900 are missing, many of whom are presumed among dead. Most of the victims were in Gonaives, Haiti's third-largest city, where four-fifths of the 250,000 residents were left homeless.
The security chief for the U.N. stabilization mission in Haiti, John Harrison of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, visited Cassolet on Tuesday to scout for a safe place to distribute food.
Earlier, only about 40 people lined up for food at an aid center in another neighborhood where U.N. peacekeepers from Brazil had to shoot into the air Monday to control hundreds of people who rioted when they were prevented from looting the food.
"It's very difficult to get food. We come every day ... People are getting very frustrated," said Manette Jean, 31, one of the few people to show up Tuesday.

She said a piece of metal stuck in her foot when she was shoved and nearly trampled during a previous visit to a food distribution center, but that she had to come so she can feed her five children.

Where's France and Germany? The Haitians do speak Francais.




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