الاثنين، 18 يناير 2010

Cruise ship visits Haiti


The Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' ship Independence of the Seas went ahead with its scheduled stop at a fenced-in private Haitian beach surrounded by armed guards, leaving its passengers to "cut loose" on the beach, just a few kilometers from one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the region's history. The ship's owners justified it as a humanitarian call, because the ship also delivered 40 palettes of relief supplies while its passengers frolicked on zip-lines and ate barbeque within the 12-foot-high fence's perimeter...
This is a headline and blurb that will elicit immediate "knee-jerk" reaction, but before you reach a final conclusion, please read the rest of the story at BoingBoing and then browse through the comments to see some of the different points of view.  It's more complex than it seems...

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