From the Daily Mail: "UNICEF boss warns of absolute chaos in Haiti with residents suffering 'serious hunger and malnutrition' while gangs block roads and stop aid: 'Like a scene from Mad Max'."
The UN children's agency chief said the situation in Haiti is the 'worst in decades' as millions face famine amid a rise in gang violence and looting.
Seven bodies were reportedly found in Petion Ville in the Ouest Department of Haiti on Monday after an overnight shooting.
UNICEF said one of its containers holding 'essential items for maternal, neonatal, and child survival, including resuscitators and related equipment' was looted in the capital of Port-au-Prince's main port on Saturday.
Looting and overall violence has further cut some of the country's most vulnerable from basic supplies, coming 'at a critical moment when children need them the most,' the agency said.
That same day, the Guatemala's Foreign Ministry said the offices of its honorary consul in Haiti was ransacked, but didn't give any details of damage or thefts, nor did it say who was responsible.
'It's like a scene out of Mad Max. Honestly, that's what it seems like.
'Gangs, vigilantes responding to the gangs,' UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell told CBS News.
Also:
'Haiti is facing a protractive and mass hunger,' Jean-Martin Bauer, Haiti director for the United Nations' World Food Program, told The Associated Press.
'We have supplies for weeks. I’m saying weeks, not months, that has me terrified.'
And something that should worry Democrats and Neocons alike, a Haitian immigrant that just returned from Haiti after visiting family there had this to say:
Passenger Avlot Quessa, who lives in Boston, traveled from the center of the country to board the charter flight after going to Haiti last month for was supposed to be a weeklong trip to visit his mother.
'It's just terrible. The suffering, you can only imagine,' Quessa told The Miami Herald of the nearby Caribbean nation.
'Haiti is my homeland and it's very stressful to see the homeland going through this act of violence, destruction ... and they are our neighbors.
'I ended up staying 20-plus days' he said noting that it was 'good to be back.'
However, Quessa said he also felt bad for the people he left behind: 'I also need to think about the people back home.
'They are only miles away from Miami. We cannot turn our eyes back on Haiti.
'Look at how much we invest in Ukraine and Israel. So no one is going to tell me that color doesn't matter.'
We can turn our backs on Haiti. We are not the world's piggybank, although that is how we are treated.
"...So no one is going to tell me that color doesn't matter.'
ReplyDeleteThat might be the most accurate thing he had to say. Of course it matters. It matters because the people of Haiti are a specific demographic by violent design (1804 white genocide), which is enshrined in the Haitian Constitution ( No whites allowed), for whatever that's worth. And yet this worthy specimen who calls that place his home instead of the stable white civilization in which he resides and makes his living thinks the rest of use should be doing something. The US has intervened in Haiti with military power several times in the last century +, it has all come to nothing. The problem with Haiti is it is full of Haitians, and they will behave in exactly the same way they always have, which is to say in the manner of poo flinging, cannibalistic, apes who cannot build anything and can only take, consume, and destroy whatever if provided to them.
I don't understand why there is a famine in Haiti. The news reports I see suggest everybody is feasting on barbequed long pork.
ReplyDeleteWell duh! When has it not been so?
ReplyDeleteHmm, just finished my taxes and it looks like I owe another $1,875 to Ukraine and Haiti.
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