Aid workers struggle to help quarter million lost Haitians

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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — Aid workers are struggling to help a quarter-million people abandoned in the heartland of Haiti's uprising, where rebels still hold sway, families have been left without food for weeks and babies are dying.
The struggle for life, traditionally more precarious in Haiti's deforested, flood-prone and isolated north, has become much more difficult since rebels chose the region to launch an armed revolt that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide last month.

"It's frustrating to know you have so many people to help in a situation that is uncertain and security that is tentative at best," said Ilana Benady, a spokeswoman for London-based Oxfam, which is working to supply water to several northern communities.

More than 300 people died in the rebellion, which ended when Aristide fled Feb. 29, but the toll could be much higher in the aftermath for northerners who now have gone for weeks without clean drinking water, electricity, food and basic health care for treatable diseases.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-26-haiti_x.htm

[madrchsod]

1. but they are free

free from the evil former government leader

[seemslikeadream]

2. Yep everything is fine now these guys are in controll

Rebel leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain talks with other rebels at their headquarters in the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Saturday Feb. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli).



Rebel leader Guy Philippe is seen with other fighters at the Hotel Mont Joli in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Thursday Feb. 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli).



An armed Rebel opposed to Jean Bertrand Aristide's government patrols in the Cap Haitien. US President George W. Bush called for deploying an international force in Haiti only if a peace deal ends deadly unrest(AFP/Jaime Razuri)



Rebels patrol in Cap Haitian, Haiti's second largest city. Rebels now control half of the country and have vowed to seize the capital and oust President Jean Bertrand Aristide(AFP/Jamie Razuri)

[seemslikeadream]

3. There is a lot to do

U.S. Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., patrol the streets of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Monday March 15, 2004. (AP Photo/US Air Force, Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway)



A child holds up a poster of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a pro-Aristide march in the Bel-Air district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday March 11, 2004.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)



A Haitian man turns away from a body that had been lying on the side of the road for several hours, and who according to witnesses at the scene had been shot by local police outside an Industrial Park near the airport in Port-au-Prince Haiti Tuesday March 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson, CP)



Elias Sestanis lies in a hospital bed at the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, March 6, 2004, with two broken legs after being hit by a car. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and following the uprising that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, medical supplies are scarcer than ever. (AP Photo/CP, Tom Hanson)

[tlcandie]

6. Very odd this last picture... it seems the little girl has the same

injuries? Both of her knees are bandaged in almost the same exact fashion, no?

Very strange...

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7. maybe there aren't alot of medical supplies

or professionals to care for them and they weren't as lucky as these kids to get a ride out of the country



Relatives of diplomats and Red Cross workers board a Dominican Republic helicopter at the embassy compound in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. Three helicopters from the Dominican Republic evacuated people from the embassy. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



A Dominican Republic officer escorts relatives of diplomats to a helicopter at the Embassy compound in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. Three helicopters from the Dominican Republic evacuated people from the embassy. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



Lovigne Evens lies in the hospital at Gonaives, Haiti, February 21, 2004, accompanied by family members after having his arm amputated. The man had his arm amputated after being wounded by gunfire on February 18, 2004 during violence at the Red Cross food distribution. (Reuters/Carlos Cazalis)

[Just Me]

4. Does anyone wonder who these people would call "evil-doers"?

:cry:

Greed has become the worst of all evils, bringing oppression and hopelessness and despair and death.

:cry:

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5. happier times

http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/