It has been three months since the earthquake hit Haiti and there are still thousands and thousands of displaced residents propping up tents where ever they can. Many of the people have gravitated towards schools which is causing problems. The students want to start school again, but because of the many people camping outside and around the schools, it is getting difficult. The tensions are rising between the schools and the displaced people and students are putting on protests to restart the schools again.
"Tensions are rising. Students blocked traffic the other day as part of a demonstration demanding a resumption of classes. Someone set fire this month to a tent and slashed two giant drinking-water receptacles."
And the tensions are not just because the school wishes for the people to be moved, the people are crying out for their government to work for them and how come they haven't found new livable places for them?
"There's a tension between the right of [displaced quake victims] to be in a safe and secure place and the right of private property and the need to get the country back to normalcy," said Elio Tamburi, acting chief of the human rights office of the U.N. authority here, known by its French acronym, Minustah."
Submitted by Tieren Dokes
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-fg-haiti-tension-20100429,0,7594099.story
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