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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (7018)1/13/2005 12:37:53 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The UN feels your pain

The Commons blog
By kendra on International

A letter to the editor in today's Daily Telegraph speaks for itself and bears repeating here at The Commons:

Feeding off disaster and at public expense

Sir - Having survived the tsunami in Sri Lanka, I have one abiding memory of the aftermath.

On New Year's Eve, I was returning to my evacuee relief centre, when I passed one of Colombo's finest restaurants. It was with surprise and dismay that I saw it was filled with freshly suited UN officials, their finely polished official cars and dutiful drivers parked ostentatiously outside (News, Jan 10).

I went to bed early, on the floor of a sports hall along with 500 other displaced tourists. I couldn't get into a hotel; they were full of aid officials.

Tarquin Desoutter, Battle, E Sussex
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