Vo.4-Moshirnia-Final
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2013 / Valuing Speech and OSINT in the Face of Judicial Deference 446<br />
the town at the epicenter of the earthquake, was essentially obliterated, with<br />
ninety percent of its buildings collapsed. 324 The infrastructure of Haiti was<br />
severely compromised, with the country’s UN headquarters, presidential<br />
palace, parliament, and the great majority of ministries destroyed or<br />
otherwise heavily damaged. 325 The human infrastructure was also tragically<br />
crippled, as the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti and 100<br />
members of the UN staff were killed in the earthquake. 326<br />
The extent of the devastation engendered a rapid international<br />
commitment of aid. 327 However, the traditional international aid system<br />
could not easily integrate data from the Haitians themselves. Existing aid<br />
information was inadequate; for example, there was a noted lack of accurate<br />
road maps and poor understanding of existing Haitian infrastructure. 328 In a<br />
particularly telling example, local Haitians were unable to enter the UN<br />
logbase, the informational hub of the UN relief effort, without first<br />
registering and obtaining a security badge. 329 Even if granted access,<br />
Haitians were not included in high-level action meetings. 330 One prominent<br />
Haitian aid organizer noted, “International aid groups compare notes and<br />
discuss strategies for distributing aid at ‘cluster meetings’ from which<br />
324 Christian Fraser, Leogane: Haiti's 'Neglected' Quake-Hit Town, BBC NEWS, Feb. 12, 2010,<br />
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8511762.stm.<br />
325 HEINZELMAN & WATERS, supra note 320 at 5.<br />
326 Neil MacFarquhar, U.N. Honors the 101 Who Served and Died in Haiti, N.Y. TIMES, Mar.<br />
10, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/americas/10nations.html (noting<br />
that the loss was “the largest one-day toll in the history of the organization”).<br />
327 Sara Miller Llana, Haiti Earthquake: With Aid Groups Already There, Relief Efforts Ramp up<br />
Quickly, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Jan. 13, 2010,<br />
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0113/Haiti-earthquake-With-aidgroups-already-there-relief-efforts-ramp-up-quickly.<br />
But there has been great criticism that<br />
much of this promised aid was never delivered. Tom Phillips & Claire Provost, Haiti<br />
Earthquake: Two Years on, and Just Half of Promised Aid has Been Delivered, THE GUARDIAN, Jan.<br />
11, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/11/haiti-earthquake-promisedaid-not-delivered;<br />
see also Sharyl Attkisson, Haiti Earthquake Aid: Nearly $15 Billion in Donations,<br />
CBS NEWS, Apr. 22, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20003180-<br />
10391695.html.<br />
328 Another thing that has slowed down the relief effort is the lack of reliable maps of Haiti.<br />
See Clark Boyd, Online Mapping Helps Haiti Relief Efforts, THE WORLD, Jan. 22, 2010,<br />
http://www.theworld.org/2010/01/online-mapping-helps-haiti-relief-efforts/.<br />
329 HEINZELMAN & WATERS, supra note 320, at 3.<br />
330 Id.