Sometimes, when I see things like the tragedy in Haiti, I really wonder about the human race. What has happened out there, despite it being a force of nature, has all the marks of humankind's indifference to their fellow beings.

The history of that sad island is, at best, deplorable. A former colony of slaves who took their destiny into their own hands and fought for their freedom. Ever since then they have been punished by the International community and beaten down by a series of despots, with, it has to be said, the support of the major economic powers with a vested interest in the country, the UK, France and more recently the USA. All attempts at real democracy were quickly snuffed out in a similar way to which they were in places like Iran and Chile and countless other emergent nations around the globe.

It's nothing new, it has happened all over the world and continues still to this day.

It's the ordinary people of Haiti that my heart goes out to as they try to carry on surrounded by rotting corpses and the crumbling ruins of their ramshackle homes.

Shame on the so called "Civilised" world. This tragedy did not begin with the first tremors of an earthquake...and it wont end with them either.


(Photo from Reuters)