Info for those not Brits: Ross Kemp used to be an actor, playing a 'hard man' in a soap. Now he does documentaries, and while I didn't rate him as an actor, I can't fault his nerve. He's done docs on the world's toughest gangs, spoken to people who might well have just decided to shoot him and hide the body. He's been out to Afghanistan, patrolling with troops and being shot at (an education to see him going from peeing himself the first time he was shot at to not even blinking as bullets ping all round). He's shown us the shocking reality of some of the poorest places on the planet (18 month old kids sniffing glue...)
Now he's gone to Haiti, to see how the aid operation is doing after the quake. Accidentally topical, huh?
Quite frankly the aid operation isn't going (or wasn't at the time of his filming, oct/nov 2010). Thousands still living in tents with no proper sanitation power or clean water, or living in houses that are partially collapsed. Fights over fresh water, outbreaks of cholera, bodies still in collapsed houses...only a fraction of the aid given has actually made it to the people who need it most. Add to that the desctruction of several prisons during the quake, releasing something like 60% of the prison population, doctors that have to pay 'protection' fees if they want to enter the IDP camps and treat people, stats like 4 policemen to protect 50 000 people and an election(that cost $29 million) so rigged that many people couldn't vote at all...
I found the doc on youtube (as the Americans among us won't be able to see the Sky doc, I don't think) ETA: I should probably add that some images are disturbing.
I'm not 100% why I'm posting this here tbh. There's probably not a damn thing I can do about the situation. But shit, I wish there was.
Now he's gone to Haiti, to see how the aid operation is doing after the quake. Accidentally topical, huh?
Quite frankly the aid operation isn't going (or wasn't at the time of his filming, oct/nov 2010). Thousands still living in tents with no proper sanitation power or clean water, or living in houses that are partially collapsed. Fights over fresh water, outbreaks of cholera, bodies still in collapsed houses...only a fraction of the aid given has actually made it to the people who need it most. Add to that the desctruction of several prisons during the quake, releasing something like 60% of the prison population, doctors that have to pay 'protection' fees if they want to enter the IDP camps and treat people, stats like 4 policemen to protect 50 000 people and an election(that cost $29 million) so rigged that many people couldn't vote at all...
I found the doc on youtube (as the Americans among us won't be able to see the Sky doc, I don't think) ETA: I should probably add that some images are disturbing.
I'm not 100% why I'm posting this here tbh. There's probably not a damn thing I can do about the situation. But shit, I wish there was.
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