WTF?????? major dispute on number killedin Haitian earthquake

[malaise]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/americas/Report-Questions-Official-Haiti-Quake-Death-Toll-122844014.html
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A draft report commissioned by the U.S. government says far fewer people died or were left homeless following Haiti's January 2010 earthquake than had been previously reported.

News agencies, which obtained a copy of the document, say it estimates that the death toll was between 46,000 and 85,000 people, far below the Haitian government's figure of more than a quarter million people. The report also questions official United Nations figures that around 680,000 people remain homeless. There has been no comment from the government of new Haitian President Michel Martelly.

The report was prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development, but has not yet been publicly released.

On Monday, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman told the Associated Press the report has inconsistencies and will not be made public until they are resolved.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Poll_Blind]

1. Directly after the earthquake, the UN's presence caused a massive and deadly cholera outbreak. It..

...may be that they're disputing which deaths came from the earthquake and which came from the subsequent cholera epidemic. Oh, and the UN peacekeepers/aid workers wound up shooting and killing more than a few Haitians who were outraged about the UN causing the outbreak, whose cause they were aware of from very early-on in the epidemic.

Probably tough to get all the deaths assigned correctly.

:shrug:

So

[sharesunited]

2. An auditor would want to know how double counting of corpses was avoided.