{"id":278571,"date":"2010-02-04T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=120344"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:25:49","slug":"haiti-russian-interpol-officer-blogs-about-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278571","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Russian Interpol Officer Blogs About Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yuri<\/a><\/p>\n

Yuri Firsov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Until recently, the Russian blogosphere didn\u2019t have its own citizen media source in Haiti. There were no direct witnesses of the devastating earthquake among Russian bloggers. But the bloggers suddenly discovered the blog of Yuri Firsov<\/a> [RUS], an Interpol officer in Haiti.<\/p>\n

Firsov is one of eight Russians who serve in the UN criminal police (Interpol)<\/a> in the country. As an UN officer, he travels from one hot spot to another and occasionally finds time to jot down his impressions on his blog. Firsov arrived to Haiti at the beginning of December 2009 when he cheerfully updated his blog with detailed description of his arrival.<\/p>\n

His second post from Haiti appeared on January 14, two days after the first shock. Since then, Firsov was writing blog posts almost on a daily basis providing his Russian-speaking readers with inside look on the horrible tragedy.\u00a0 Below are the most interesting extracts from his posts:<\/p>\n

January 12, 2010<\/a> [RUS]<\/p>\n

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Somewhere around 4:45 PM\u2026 I felt like my Nissan (I was driving) suddenly lost control and I felt like I was driving up on a \u201cgrate\u201d. The car slid to the left side of the road\u2026 and on the right, like in a dream, a very long concrete fence began to shiver like it was made of printed cotton and not of huge concrete blocks. We stopped and found out that our Nissan is still shivering\u2026 I went out to the road \u2013 it was wobbling gradually under our feet. Even a fool would understand what was happening\u2026 I understood as well\u2026 to be precise, all three of us understood that this was an earthquake\u2026 a minute after I saw houses that were no longer hiding behind the fence, they were without roofs and sank a little to the side\u2026 People started running and crawling out on the road. Many of those were covered with blood.<\/div>\n
\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Hotel Haiti Destroyed By the Quake, phot by Yuri Firsov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two days later, Firsov wrote<\/a> [RUS] that all the chiefs of the UN police force were found dead<\/a> [EN]. The streets were ruled by chaos and anarchy. From time to time, resuming shocks provoked panic among people. Dead bodies wrapped in cloth were laying right on the city streets and houses looked like pleats. There were rescuers only near few blockages. The UN base had to be turned into a hospital. One could hear screams of the operated and feel the smell of death all around the base.<\/p>\n

On January 15, Firsov wrote<\/a> [RUS] that his colleagues were spending nights at the office because they were afraid to stay at home. People left their clothes, personal belongings and even mattresses at the UN base just not to come back to the houses which might become their graves at any given moment. Dead bodies were burned to prevent epidemic.<\/p>\n

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While approaching our hospital, we saw a smog cloud that covered almost all the district and felt stinking smell of burnt flesh\u2026 some more wrapped-up bodies were laying on the sidewalk not far away\u2026 Smoke, depending on the wind direction, either covered the full camp or was carried away to the end of the street\u2026 Well, yeah\u2026 Unpleasant neighbors\u2026<\/div>\n

Yuri also described the arrival of a woman with two kids who spent 84 hours under wreckage. A nurse that was taking care of kids had to lull them by herself since the mother was too shocked to do that. Yuri took a picture of a tired and frightened boy hiding under a piece of rag.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/p>\n

Boy hiding under a piece of rag, photo by Yuri Firsov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On January 17, Firsov talked<\/a> [RUS] about his new habit and the most frightening thing about the earthquake:<\/p>\n

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I have a habit after being in Yugoslavia. When I go out of a car, I never put my feet on the roadside and never on the grass. I always look under my feet everywhere where I step and where\u2019s no solid cover. After Haiti, I will have a habit to look at lamps and glasses with water. It\u2019s not the shiver what is the most frightening\u2026of course unless you\u2019re not trapped under the roof\u2026 consequences are the most frightening \u2013 chaos, destruction, pain and victims, demolition of the whole order\u2026<\/div>\n

On January 21, Firsov wrote<\/a> [RUS] about a patrol to the Cit\u00e9 Soleil<\/a>, a shanty town, that the community regarded to be the most dangerous area in Haiti. However, the situation turned out to be relatively quiet. There were no shootings or aggression, Firsov said.<\/p>\n

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At half past nine we were at Cit\u00e9 Soleil. Small houses sat close to one another in the darkness, a lot of them destroyed, most of the people slept on the streets\u2026 this is why we were going very slow, going round small groups of sleeping people\u2026 someone slept on the bed sheets, someone had mattresses, someone just laid down on concrete. At night, it all seemed as footage from a sci-fi disaster movie\u2026 people on the street, half-destroyed frames of houses, beams instead of roofs\u2026
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\nWhile we maneuvered round the bodies, people raised their heads when our cars approached, looked at us, but there was neither hostility nor aggression on their faces. And what about all those scary stories people told us about bands of looters active in the city? I have no words \u2013 this neighborhood has many problems, the criminal situation is much worse than anywhere, the poverty is shocking and there is unemployment along\u00a0 with no positive developments in the future\u2026 But we went through and no one was attacking us, no one was shooting\u2026 and my own words that it\u2019s dangerous to come here without a battalion of Brazilians seemed very stupid for me then\u2026 I got confused by the prejudices and others\u2019 unchecked opinion promoted by mass media\u2026<\/div>\n

On January 23, Firsov wrote<\/a> [RUS] about constant aftershocks and how the animals reacted to them a couple of hours earlier.<\/p>\n

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Eleven days passed since the quake\u2026 We returned from Cite Soleil yesterday at 2 a.m.\u2026 suddenly dogs started howling, roosters started crowing, and donkeys started making their inarticulate sounds\u2026 In the morning I woke up from the shocks \u2013 aftershock again\u2026 Couple of powerful pushes made me jump off the bed\u2026 So it looks like dogs howl couple of hours prior to the shocks\u2026 I couldn\u2019t figure out any regularity in the animals\u2019 behavior\u2026 they either got simultaneously silent, making you think of the worst, or shouted altogether, making you feel like running out to the street \u2013 but the result is all the same.\u2026Earthquake is like\u00a0 awar, but you can\u2019t feel or see the enemy\u2026 this enemy hits you suddenly, from under the ground, to be precise\u2026 all the rest is up to you – every man for himself. When I was lying at night, slowly rocking on the aftershock vibrations, I thought that even in the extreme situations \u2013 in Kosovo and in Bosnia – when there was shooting or during the civil unrest in Timor, there was no such feeling, there was no animal fear, the fear that you don\u2019t have any control of your life\u2026 when there\u2019s shooting, adrenaline pumps to your head and you think “we\u2019ll see who will win”\u2026 and here\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yuri Firsov Until recently, the Russian blogosphere didn\u2019t have its own citizen media source in Haiti. There were no direct witnesses of the devastating earthquake among Russian bloggers. But the bloggers suddenly discovered the blog of Yuri Firsov [RUS], an Interpol officer in Haiti. Firsov is one of eight Russians who serve in the UN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}