TodaysNetworkNews: HAITI: RELIEF SUPPLIES vs. SECURITY CONCERNS, RIOTING (U.N. MINUSTAH)

TodaysNetworkNews: 17 January 2010 - U.N. MINUSTAH - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - As government officials, non-governmental organizations and charities around the world are rushing disaster relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Haiti, reports of rioting are fueling security concerns and security concerns are also being blamed for the delay in distributing food and water.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Quake victim:
"The way they just dump the food from the helicopters, it's awful. Most people here don't get any food, people start fighting, banging heads and breaking bones. It's complete disorder."

At this make-shift camp on the golf course of the Petionville Country Club located in the affluent suburb of Port-au-Prince, American soldiers deliver their own food rations to the quake victims. But as the crowd grows more aggressive, they are forced to walk away.
At a distribution point a mile away, the World Food Program doles out high energy biscuits and food rations, only to lock up their truck and move on after the crowd becomes unruly.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Quake Victim:
"I wasn't one of the ones fighting. I have seven kids, and we lost everything. I wasn't fighting! If they could only give us something, It's unfair, I am an adult, I don't fight."

UN Spokesman for the mission in Haiti David Wimhurst said that one of the problems is that there is no longer a functioning police force. The national Haitian police are not visible at all—theyve simply vanished, he said, and the ability of humanitarian organizations to meet people's basic needs is limited. He warned that potential anger among the Haitian population is rising. ................................................................................­............................... ( UNITED NATIONS MINUSTAH ) ................................................................................­................................TodaysNetworkNews:
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