Geneva — Some years ago, way back in 2006 in fact, I met a journalist from Sri Lanka at the UN in Geneva. We were both there to cover peace talks between Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels. The talks ended in failure, but conversations with my colleague were interesting. Fresh in his mind was the Asian tsunami, and his perception of the UN response in Sri Lanka.
"They came in, went straight to the upmarket car dealers, bought up a load of four-wheel drives and drove around in them," he said. His comments were not praise: he viewed the UN aid workers as arrogant, uncommunicative strangers.
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