SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
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Storm rips Haiti quake camps Five killed and
thousands of tents for homeless destroyed
BY JONATHANM. KATZ
port-au-prince, haiti — The sudden, powerful storm that ripped through Haiti’s battered capital Friday destroyed thou- sands of tents in the homeless camps where more than 1.3 mil- lionpeople live eightmonths after a devastating earthquake, shelter officials said Saturday. The death toll from Friday af-
ternoon’s stormstood at five peo- ple, including two children, and hundreds of peoplewere reported with varying degrees of injury, Civil Protection chief Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste said. PreliminaryUnitedNations es-
timates are that more than 2,000 tents have been damaged or de- stroyed; international shelter offi- cials said that number could sur- pass 5,000 when assessments are complete. The storm’s effect was exacer-
bated by the flimsiness of tarpau- lins and tents that have been bak- ing, soaking and flapping in the Caribbeanelements since the Jan. 12 earthquake, which killed at least 230,000 people and leftmil- lionshomeless.Hundredsof thou- sands of families are still living on the streets of the capital waiting for temporary housing or money to find newapartments. “Many of the tents that were
destroyed had reached their end of life span,” said Gerhard Tauscher, shelter cluster coordi- nator for the International Feder- ation of theRedCross. Reconstruction has barely be-
gun despite billions of dollars pledged for Haiti after the disas- ter. Less than 15 percent of the money promised at the U.N. do- nor’s conference in March has beendelivered.TheUnitedStates, whichspentmore than$1.1billion in humanitarian aid after the quake, has not delivered any of its promised long-termfunds. Wooden and metal temporary
shelters fared much better in the storm, sufferingminimaldamage. But few of those left homeless by the earthquake have those. Instead they continue living in tarps and tents, sometimes rein-
RAMON ESPINOSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children embrace at a muddy path of a refugee camp in Port-au- Prince,Haiti, where a storm tore down trees and tent homes.
forced with metal or wood. As many as 10 percent of such shel- terswere destroyed in some areas of thecapitalbythesuddensquall, withdamage concentrated incen- tral urban areas,Tauscher said. Camp-management facilities
including office tents, clinics and child-care spaces were shredded, especially in camps perched on the steep hillsides between down- town Port-au-Prince and the sub- urb of Petionville. “Infrastructurehasbeenripped
up: the house, the office, child- friendly spaces. The clinic held up pretty well and there wasn’t any one person hurt, but trees fell and the place looks an absolutemess,” said Emmett Fitzgerald of the American Refugee Council, who manages the 26,000-person camp atTerrainAcra. The storm was not part of any
tropical systembut rather a stan- dard early-fall Caribbean storm caused by cold and dry conditions in the upper atmosphere,U.S.Na- tional Hurricane Center senior
specialist Stacy Stewart said. Windspeed and rainfall data
were not immediately available. Based on the reports of uprooted trees and damaged tents, Stewart estimated winds might have reached60mph—aviolent storm, but far belowhurricane strength. Haiti has not suffered a direct
hit from a hurricane or tropical storm this year, but months of hurricane season remain. Fore- casters are watching the rem- nants of Tropical Storm Matthew off the coast of Central America, which could transform into a “monsoon low” and threaten the WesternCaribbean nextweek. The impoverished nation was
extremely vulnerable to damage from passing storms even before the quake. Port-au-Prince’s Cite Soleil slumwas floodedby rains in 2007. In 2008, four named storms struck in onemonth, killing near- ly 800 people and plunging the coastal city ofGonaives underwa- ter forweeks.
—Associated Press
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The World A21
Thai leader urges Burma to allow ‘inclusive’ politics
Regime should let
jailed opposition head participate, Abhisit says
BY GLENN KESSLER
united nations—The military regime running Burma must al- low for a “more inclusive” politi- cal system, such as allowing the participation of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after disputed elections are held in November, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in an inter- view.
Abhisit also defended his han-
dling of an emergency decree is- sued in April to combat mass protests thatparalyzed the streets ofBangkok.HumanRightsWatch on Thursday condemned the con- tinued use of the measure, which it said was a “draconian law” that “allows authorities to violate rights with impunity.” Abhisit said that the govern-
ment would try to address Hu- man RightsWatch’s concerns but that he was “slightly disappoint- ed” the statement did not recog- nize what he described as contin- ued dangers to the government. “I wish they would recognize
that in implementing this law we are simply trying to make sure there is stability and no violence,” he said. “Iamconfident thatmost ordinary people would say to you they have felt no effect of the law.” Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize
laureate who has been sentenced repeatedly to house arrest since her partywona landslide election in 1990 that the military leader- ship refused to accept. Abhisit noted that Suu Kyi has been barred from participating in the coming elections, which her par- ty, ethnic minorities, monks, stu- dents and human rights groups have denounced as a sham. “I think, realistically, nobody
expected that just having these elections would shift things,” Ab- hisit, 46, said in an interview Thursday evening in New York, where he was attending the Unit- ed Nations General Assembly. “I think it should be seen as a first step. Whether that step is big
enough depends on your expecta- tions and perspective on things.” He added: “For us, what is
important is that once they go ahead, they lead to a more inclu- sive process which would lay the foundation for further steps and also for reconciliation with the minority groups.” Asked specificallywhether Suu
Kyi and her party should regain a role in public life, Abhisit said, “They [the junta] should do all they can to open up the process.” Thailand shares a long border withBurma,alsoknownasMyan-
The coming elections are a “first step.”
—Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai prime minister
mar, and Abhisit is perceived in Asia as having a more jaundiced view of the Burmese regime than his deposed predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra. Although Abhisit took office almost two years ago, he has not visited Burma, which he attributed to scheduling con- flicts. “We should be there next
month unless something comes up,” he said. Ahbisit said Burma has
brought instability, ethnic refu- gee flows, illicit drugs and a heightened military presence along Thailand’s border. He said his government was seeking “fresh mechanisms” to deal with thewaves of migrant labor, which he said would help stop traffick- ing and other crimes. As a first step, he said, the government would seek to verify the number of foreign laborers in Thailand,
which estimates put as high as 3 million but which he said a new census would probably show is much higher. On the sensitive case of alleged
arms dealer Viktor Bout—whom the United States wants extradit- ed to face charges related to a sting operation and whom Mos- cow wants returned to Russia — Ahbisit said the case is working its way through the courts. Ulti- mately, though, he said, he would have to make the final decision. “We don’t want to upset rela-
tions with either country,” he said withasmile. “Wewishthatmaybe the two should talk to each other and resolve it without getting us involved.” Abhisit, along with the leaders
of other Southeast Asian nations, met with President Obama on Friday. It was the second such meeting, and he said it demon- strated that the Obama adminis- tration wants to reengage with Southeast Asia. “But there is now going to be
more pressure that there should be deliverables,” he warned. “We wish to seemoreconcrete propos- als, particularly in the area of trade and investment. That has been missing.” Abhisit said that security and
theU.S. presence in the region are important but that a trade and investment deal would be the quickest way to boost the rela- tionship between the United States and Southeast Asia. He noted that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has a free trade agreement with China, India and other countries. Abhisit said he appreciated the
political difficulty of getting such an agreement through Congress but added, “This is where the engine of growth is going to be in the future—at the global level.”
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