JT Buckmaster
01-19-2010, 12:39 PM
:rock :party
Violence and looting are sweeping through the Haitian capital. (NOTHING UNUSUAL THERE THEN!)
Hundreds of thousands of hungry Haitians are still waiting for help, many of them in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.
New estimates put the quake death toll at as many as 200,000; but six days into the crisis, aid distribution was still random, chaotic and minimal, though world leaders have pledged massive assistance to rebuild.
In one incident a starving crowd clamoured to snatch food and supplies from shops. In another, residents caught two suspected looters, tied them together, beat them and dragged them through the streets. :chmpt
Gangs of men, their faces covered with bandanas to mask both their identity and the smell of decaying bodies, brandished machetes and sharpened planks of wood as they ran from shop to shop stealing shoes, rolls of carpet and cooking pots. :lol
Two aid workers from the Dominican Republic were shot and seriously wounded as they handed out food. Carlos Gatas and Milton Matos struggled back to their embassy with gunshot wounds after the attack.
There were also reports of hungry people fighting with machetes over small packages of food that were dropped into a stadium by a helicopter. (GIBS MUH DAT!)
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/police-in-haiti-open-fire-on-starving-survivors-14639443.html#ixzz0d45VWLkL
Violence and looting are sweeping through the Haitian capital. (NOTHING UNUSUAL THERE THEN!)
Hundreds of thousands of hungry Haitians are still waiting for help, many of them in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.
New estimates put the quake death toll at as many as 200,000; but six days into the crisis, aid distribution was still random, chaotic and minimal, though world leaders have pledged massive assistance to rebuild.
In one incident a starving crowd clamoured to snatch food and supplies from shops. In another, residents caught two suspected looters, tied them together, beat them and dragged them through the streets. :chmpt
Gangs of men, their faces covered with bandanas to mask both their identity and the smell of decaying bodies, brandished machetes and sharpened planks of wood as they ran from shop to shop stealing shoes, rolls of carpet and cooking pots. :lol
Two aid workers from the Dominican Republic were shot and seriously wounded as they handed out food. Carlos Gatas and Milton Matos struggled back to their embassy with gunshot wounds after the attack.
There were also reports of hungry people fighting with machetes over small packages of food that were dropped into a stadium by a helicopter. (GIBS MUH DAT!)
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/police-in-haiti-open-fire-on-starving-survivors-14639443.html#ixzz0d45VWLkL