UN 'peacekeepers' hurl pepper spray at Haitians and call them 'animals'

• The Times of London reports:

"Machete fights have been reported as families argue over who should have access to the desperately limited supply of tents. Yesterday UN peacekeepers were forced to

• use pepper spray and rubber bullets as a food hand-out at one of the biggest homeless encampments in the centre of Port-au-Prince was over-run by thousands of starving people.

"Whatever we do, it doesn't matter - they are animals," said one of the 18 Uruguayan peacekeepers in front of the collapsed National Palace, struggling to hold back the 4,000-strong crowd with a plastic shield.

• As some of the troops fired pepper spray, others standing on top of a UN tank fired rubber bullets into the air, all but ignored by the people striving to get at the food supplies."...

1/26/10, TimesOnlineUK, "Desperate Haitians over-run UN food hand out," photo getty, UN peacekeepers arrest Haitian man. The UN as usual is completely useless at best.