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Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
481 [3]
Article-Summary: 

“Everything we owned got smashed. We lost everything.”... Getro Nelio was not referring to the devastating earthquake of January 12. The unemployed, 24-year-old Haitian was speaking about losing his home a second time in three months, on this occasion due to the government. Since late March, armed Haitian police have been closing camps and destroying the shelters that quake victims created out of whatever supplies they could scavenge, from cardboard to small strips of tin. U.N. troops sometim...read more [4]

“Everything we owned got smashed. We lost everything.”... Getro Nelio was not referring to the devastating earthquake of January 12. The unemployed, 24-year-old Haitian was speaking about losing his home a second time in three months, on this occasion due to the government. Since late March, armed Haitian police have been closing camps and destroying the shelters that quake victims created out of whatever supplies they could scavenge, from cardboard to small strips of tin. U.N. troops sometimes aid in the evictions.

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Human Security [5]
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