HAITI / AID SECURITY

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. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:05
• Production Date: 17 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100117m

Description

STORY: HAITI / AID SECURITY
TRT:2:05
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, tent camp of quake refugees on the golf course of the Petionville Country Club
2. Wide shot, refugees of quake in tent camp
3. 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."
4. Pan right, massive tent camp on the golf course
5. Wide shot, American soldiers in front of the crowd waiting for food
6. Tilt up, soldiers distribute their own food rations to hungry people in the tent camp
7. Med shot, children receiving food rations
8. Med shot, US soldier distributing rations
9. Tilt left, soldier standing in front of growing crowd
10. Med shot, hungry crowd grows aggressive
11. Wide shot, soldiers remove the rations and walk away because they can't control the crowd
12. Wide shot, World Food Program distribution in Canape Vert (1 mile away)
13. Wide shot, WFP distribution site
14. Wide shot, victims wait on long lines for the food distribution to start
15. Wide shot, WFP aid workers try to calm the crowd
16. Wide shot, a Haitian police officer pushes people back to get them orderly
17. Med shot, Haitian police officer pushes the crowd
18. Med shot, WFP workers give up, lock the food trucks and leave
19. 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."
20. Wide shot, tent camp in Petionville
21. Wide shot, tent camp in Petionville

Storyline

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—they’ve 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.