Haiti In Pictures: Winnie Tilin And Redjeson Hausteen Make Sense Of The Incredible
THE horror in Haiti is best told in pictures and aided by celebrities – or not. All the broadcast media can do is delivers images of hope. After Redjeson Hausteen today’s ray of light is Winnie Tilin, a 16-month-old pulled alive from the rubble of her family’s home after 68 hours.
In other news, the NOTW says “a further 150,000 are feared dead”.
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The talk was of 500,000 as the papers competed to see which of them could come up with the biggest number.
* Haitian authorities say [the quake] killed 200,000 people.
* Haiti’s Home Secretary Paul Bien-Aimé said: “We have already ¬collected around 50,000 dead ¬bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total.”
The bigger the number the less fathomable the disaster. Each digit is a life. Better, perhaps, to look at the saved, one at a time. Only by looking at them can be begin to comprehend the immense loss…
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Posted: 17th, January 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
