Tensions Rise Over Haiti Tent Camps
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times April 29, 2010 Three months after the earthquake, schools and businesses want their land back. Students head for the Lycee Jean Jacques in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. (Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press / April 4, 2010) Displaced and homeless, the 10,000 earthquake victims crowding the school grounds of the Lycee Jean Jacques are feeling the sting of a new label: unwanted guests. Administrators and students at the private high school are eager to resume classes after a pause of more than three months. But they can’t as long as the schoolyard, now churned to mud and strewn with trash, remains jammed with thousands of makeshift tents. Residents say they are willing to make way for students, but have no other place to go yet. Across the Port-au-Prince region, Haitian and international officials are confronting the tricky […]