U.N. HELP: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed adding 3,500 more U.N. peacekeepers and police to maintain order and protect deliveries of emergency aid. At least 46 U.N. staff members have died.
EVACUATION PLAN: Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean defended his charity on Monday in the wake of questions about its practices while calling on the international community to enable the evacuation of his homeland’s earthquake-ravaged capital. “We need to migrate at least 2 million people,” Jean said. “I give you my word, if I tell them to go, they will go.”
EUROPEAN AID: The European Union and its individual governments boosted their aid pledges for Haiti to $606 million.
CLINTON ARRIVES: Former President Bill Clinton, special U.N. envoy, flew into Haiti on Monday. Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea, helped unload bottled water.
VIGILANTES: “If you don’t kill the criminals, they will all come back,” a Haitian police officer shouted over a loudspeaker in a Port-au-Prince slum, imploring citizens to take justice into their own hands. Influential gang leaders who escaped from a heavily damaged prison are taking advantage of a void left by police while peacekeepers focused on disaster relief.
