Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Crowds seeking aid in Haiti met with pepper spray and rubber bullets

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7003750.ece


United Nations troops used pepper spray yesterday to hold off a crowd of hungry Haitians queueing for food at a makeshift camp in the grounds of the wrecked presidential palace.

“They’re not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat,” Fernando Soares, a Brazilian army colonel, said. “The problem is, there is not enough food for everyone