La sete.

 

Across town two more women were pulled from a collapsed university building, while in another part of the capital a Mexican-led team freed Ena Zizi, a 69-year-old who was attending a meeting at the residence of Haiti's Catholic archbishop when the earthquake struck.
In the darkness she had spoken with a priest who also was trapped but he fell silent after a few days, leaving her alone. "I talked only to my boss, God," she said, lying on a foil thermal blanket, her hair coated in white dust. "And I didn't need any more humans."

"I'm all right, sort of," she said.

(Port-au-Prince resilience shown as survivors still emerging)

Obama un anno dopo.

Inghiottito.

Gao Zhisheng has already paid a heavy price for his work as one of China's leading human-rights lawyers. Five years ago he was the darling of the Chinese legal community, feted with awards for the cases he took defending clients in medical malpractice or business disputes. His decision to represent controversial clients such as the victims of forced evictions led to increasingly severe retaliation by the government. Today some observers are worried that he may have died at the hands of the police.
State security forces took Mr. Gao into custody last February, and one of those policemen last week told his brother that he went "missing" while on a walk on Sept. 25. The family's lack of contact with Mr. Gao, in contravention of China's own laws, had already stoked fears for his safety, and this police claim not to have him in custody suggests that the authorities have something to hide in their handling of the case.
Mr. Gao has been a victim of the very legal system whose corruption he worked to expose.

(Where Is Gao Zhisheng?)

Quelli che con Sarkozy la Francia è un'altra cosa.

"Se trata de ayudar Haití, pero no de ocupar Haití. Se trata de ayudar para que Haití vuelva a recobrar su vida. La ONU está trabajando y espero que tengamos una decisión. Espero que nos precisen el papel de Estados Unidos", declaró el dirigente galo en la radio Europe 1, tras regresar de una visita a la isla, devastada por un seísmo de magnitud 7 grados en la escala de Richter durante la noche del pasado martes.

El Ejecutivo de Nicolas Sarkozy se ha quejado de esta forma de que el aeropuerto se haya convertido en un "anexo de EEUU" y considera que el despliegue estadounidense está estrangulando la llegada de la ayuda humanitaria.

(Francia critica a EEUU por monopolizar la ayuda en Haití)

Oltre Pinochet, oltre Bachelet.

Twitter da Port-au-Prince. Qui alcuni link ad aggiornamenti in tempo reale via Twitter:

InternetHaiti

RT @piccon01: tell people from Delmas that I had people in Delmas 40, they are ok but in the street in a basketball Gym. I hope this helps

Louisoxfam

UN’s OCHA is establishing its operations centre and reception centre at the airport in Haiti

Haiti/3.

Haiti/2. C'è un'estetica nella tragedia, anche se fa male riconoscerlo.

Haiti. Non è che il disastro si abbatta sempre sui più umili. E' che dove ci sono miseria, sottosviluppo, depressione, ogni evento imprevisto è potenzialmente disastroso.

Ancora sulle black jails.

Shi has been imprisoned twice, taken first by security forces to an isolated stockroom and held for days with 100 other people. She was eventually released with her ailing husband, and then was abducted last summer and held for several weeks at a shabby private home.
Jailers denied her requests for water and a piece of paper to swat away the maddening mosquitoes, Shi said.

(China's 'black jails' shove complaints into the dark)

Personaggi: Lyudmila M. Alexeyeva.

Ms. Alexeyeva is now, by her own count, in her 43rd year of provoking official Moscow. The enemy these days is the soft authoritarian government ushered in by Vladimir V. Putin, previously the president and now prime minister, who methodically constricted the human rights movement. But long before that it was the airless confinement of Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, where Ms. Alexeyeva was one of a tiny group of intellectuals who risked their lives to press for freedom and human rights.

(Russian Dissident’s Passion Endures Despite Tests)

Sobria apertura del nuovo anno a Pyongyang.

Standing at the head of the great revolutionary upswing, which is advancing with the might of single-hearted unity, great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il is leading the great battle of powerful state construction to a shining victory. Currently, all the people's army officers and men and the people are presenting their warm gratitude and greatest honor to respected and beloved Comrade Kim Jong Il, who is opening up a splendid future of our fatherland and revolution with his infinite energy and unremitting leadership, and they are full of firm resolve to uphold the party's causes to the end with their burning loyalty and heroic feats.

(North Korea's 2010 New Year's joint editorial)

La bianca Albione.

Lettera a un bambino mai nato: la giustizia cinese.

Ora, il più sporco dei processi politici è finito. Quello che verrà dalla sentenza emessa è facilmente deducibile: è iniziata una nuova fase di sofferenze ancora più grandi per Liu Xiaobo. Sua moglie sarà costretta a passare anni ad andare davanti e dietro da una prigione. Noi, che siamo coinvolti nello stesso caso, non possiamo andare in galera con lui: ma finché lui rimarrà dentro, nessuno di noi avrà un solo giorno di pace.

(Il processo a Liu Xiaobo, ovvero la morte della giustizia)
(Liu Xiaobo)