Reuters,  Tue Jan 12 22:28:08 EST 2010

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The headquarters of the U.N. mission in Haiti was seriously damaged by a powerful earthquake that shook the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday and many staff are missing, the United Nations said.
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I heard that the UN Chief of Mission in Haiti also perished in the earthquake

proximus wrote:

I heard that the UN Chief of Mission in Haiti also perished in the earthquake

true, and sad.

1000s have perished in the killer quake.


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for Haiti updates:

http://m.cnn.com/primary/_Lih9K9-iabb5lfRET

500,000 feared dead ... ?

What a calamity to start the year 2010 with..

http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/14/india-rushes-aid-to-haiti-5-lakh-feared-dead.htm


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I'm here watching CNN Anderson Cooper explaining all the bodies that's being dumped in mass graves in Haiti. What is interesting he talked about how he saw the mass graves in Sri Lanka after the tsunami but in SL there was organization and all the bodies were photographed and documented so that when and if a relative search for the lost ones, that they would have a record, but no such organization in Haiti. The bodies are simply just dumped and covered.

People should not always complain about Sri Lanka because it is way better than so many places in this planet.


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Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! - Proximus
"I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways" - Michael Jackson

i dont know why yet again the great satan USA has to rescue the Hatians from starvation and death resulting from the earth quake. The work they did to help sri Lanka in terms of money, men and equipment was enormouuse. How come China and India the new super powers cannot do anything about the situation in Haiti. How about Hugo Chavez and Iran? where are you hiding?


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"A nation is a collective enterprise - outside of that it is a gambling hall for the opportunism and adventurism of power."-Wole Soyinka

There has been international assistance
from all over the world. India also rushed
in supplies and a little cash. China must
have done similar help. Agree, they should
try doing more. Haiti is taken
over completely by US, from their airport
to institutions etc. US army, navy, air-force
is directly involved. All this will limit
media focus on other international channels of help.


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