C'est marrant. Quoi ?

Publié par Elsie HAAS sur 28 Janvier 2007, 22:17pm

photo Dr Caroll /22 janvier 2007
Estherline a 19 ans, les hélicoptères de l'ONU ont tiré sur son épaule gauche et sa poitrine pendant son sommeil. Son visage parle de lui-même, alors qu'elle observe le passage des tanks de l'ONU qui patrouillent, juste à quelques mètres de la Clinique à Cité Soleil.

C'est marrant. Quoi ?
Eh bien, il y a ce médecin Dr John Carroll qui envoie son témoignage sur son travail en Haïti dans les bidonvilles sur un site, Peoria Pundits aux US.

Les lecteurs étatsuniens de "Peoria Pundit" ne sont pas d'accord avec ces reportages qu'ils considèrent comme une invasion de leur site. Ils jugent que les récits du médecin sont trop longs et aussi pourquoi les emm.. avec Haïti dont ils s'en foutent éperdument.
C'est ce que je trouve marrant -ce qui signifie dans ce cas à la fois intéressant,curieux, révoltant, triste et révélateur- qu'un groupe de lecteurs soient agacés par des reportages poignants. C'est dû à quoi ? Racisme, ignorance , égoïsme, peur ? Ou simple indifférence ?
En tous cas, voici le début du reportage du Dr John Carrol. Ceux qui ne sont pas rebutés par la longueur et la langue anglaise peuvent lire l'ensemble du texte à: www.dyinginhaiti.blogspot.com

Haïti on the brink
By Dr. John A. Carroll
January 25th, 2007

Each Wednesday our mobile medical team piles into a nice new truck that has URGENCE brightly painted on the front. We work in two slums in Port-au-Prince. The first slum is called La Saline and the second is Cite Soleil. Both slums are on the water front. Cite Soleil is known for its gang warfare with the UN troops and miserable poverty. La Saline is known for its miserable poverty.

The population of these slums is guessed at around 300,000. Port-au-Prince has a population of approximately 2,000,000.

There were five of us in the truck today as we coursed through a slum called Pele. We stopped at a house in Pele and filled the back of the truck with medication in large picnic coolers that we hand carry into the slum when the streets become too narrow to continue in the truck. As usual, Pele?s streets were full of pedestrians this morning.

However, as we approached Route 1, which runs by Cite Soleil, five United Nations tanks were positioned up and down this street and an a UN soldier stood in front of our vehicle, put his hand up, and motioned for us to stop.

There are almost 9,000 UN troops in Haiti now. The UN has been here since July, 2004. The UN commander in Haiti is Brazilian as are the majority of the troops.
The UN had been shooting inside Cite Soleil early this morning and now had the entire slum entrance and exit blocked off with their white tanks that menacingly sat on Route 1. UN troops had traded gunfire with armed gangs while the UN was taking control of an abandoned school that the gangs had used to fire upon UN troops. The UN is doing all they can to kill gang members and take over their bases, so that Soleil can be turned over to the Haitian National Police.

Route National 1, which is usually fairly busy, was empty of traffic. Pedestrians and their bags and wheelbarrows, were searched before they could continue walking past the slum. The white UN tanks and their machine guns were aimed directly into the slum.

La suite à: www.dyinginhaiti.blogspot.com

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