ハイチ：「国境なき医師団」活動停止

　ポルトープランスでの活動を停止。理由はスタッフへの直接の攻撃と、同団体保護下に置いた患者に対する「処刑」。そらマズい。

「The humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended its operations in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, following a violent attack on its staff and the alleged killing of two patients they were treating by Haitian police officers.」

BBC MSF halts work in Haitian capital over attacks　10 hours ago

Will Grant

　そもそも一日のうちに25人も死亡が確認されるレベルで不穏な情勢になっている。なので誰がいつ撤退しようともおかしくはないが、国境なき医師団はかなり粘るほうのはずなのだ。しかし。

「An estimated 25 people were killed in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday alone in what police say was a foiled attempt at a gang invasion of a wealthy neighbourhood.」

　11月11日、銃傷を負った若者三名を運ぶ彼らの救急車がハイチ政府側勢力に停止させられ、パラミリが患者のうち2名を引きずり出し、病院敷地内で処刑した。堂々、国際的援助機関の目の前での虐殺行為である。流石にマズい。

「MSF says that on 11 November one of its ambulances carrying three young men with gunshot wounds was stopped by Haitian law enforcement officers.

Apparently supported by a paramilitary self-defence group, the men attacked the vehicle, removed two of the patients, took them outside hospital grounds and executed them.」

　なお先週、要員が催涙ガス攻撃を食らい、さらに数時間拘束されたとのこと。無論マズい。

「The humanitarian group denounced the violence in a strongly worded statement last week, saying their personnel had been tear-gassed and held against their will for several hours.

While that incident appears to have been the final straw for MSF in Port-au-Prince, at least for the time being, it was not the only recent example of extreme aggression against their staff.」

　こうして、これらの事件が最後の「わらしべ」になっちゃった―と。…無理ない話である。