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[T]he Haitian people seem to scare aid workers more than Somali warlords, Darfuri Janjawid or Afghan Taleban. Frightened Dutch aid workers abandoned a mission without reaching the collapsed building where people were trapped, and frightened doctors have left their patients unattended.

The experience of CNN’s medical reporter, Dr Sanjay Gupta, is telling. In a makeshift clinic he encountered a Belgian medical team being evacuated in a UN bus. UN “rules of engagement” apparently stopped them providing security for the doctors. The Belgians took most of their medical supplies with them, to keep them out of the claws of robbers.

Dr Gupta and his camera team stayed the night, monitored the abandoned patients’ vital signs and continued intravenous drips — and they were not robbed. Some rescuers are leaning so much toward security that they will allow people to die.

Fear of the poor is hampering haiti rescue - Linda Polman in The Times (UK).

See also: Klein in Newsweek

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    Fear of the poor is hampering haiti rescue...See also: Klein in Newsweek
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    The world turned upside down. What are we doing to each other? This breaks my heart.
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    Everyone should read this whole article. Other telling details come just after what’s
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