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In this building, a school of sorts, shin says he watched his teacher beat a little girl to death for hoarding a few kernels of corn, a violation of prison rules which he and the other students were required to learn by heart. >> translator: if you escaped, you would be shot. if you tried to escape or planned to escape, you would be shot. even if you did not report someone who was trying to escape, you would be shot. >> the shootings took place in this field, he says. the other prisoners were required to watch. as frightening as the executions were, shin considered them a break from the monoto...

What love was when you were, for the first 23 years of your life? >> translator: i still don't know what that means. >> love may have been absent, but fear was not. in this building, a school of sorts, shin says he watched his teacher beat a little girl to death for hoarding a few kernels of corn, a violation of prison rules which he and the other students were required to learn by heart. >> translator: if you escaped, you would be shot. if you tried to escape or planned to escape, you would be shot. even if you did not report someone who was trying to escape, you would be shot. >> the shootin...

Of what you feel there. are basic needs being met there in port-au-prince? i'm talking about food and water. >> reporter: yeah. it's still patchy. it's a lot less patchy than it was. people will tell you they haven't had enough to eat, people tell you they don't have water, but there are distribution systems in place which seem to be working and more and more people are being reached with very, very basic commodities, rice, water, corn meal. not a lot else. what that means is that moving forward, you're going to have problems with malnutrition, people not getting the right kinds of food to eat...

Mark one month sense the devastating earthquake. thousands turned out for today's remembrance ceremony in the heart of port-au-prince near the collapsed presidential palace. officials have declared today a national day of mourning for the more than 200,000 people killed in the quake. more than a million people remain homeless in haiti. o our john vause is in port-au-prince. give us an assessment here. where do things stand, i know that's a pretty broad question, one month after the quake. >> reporter: let's talk about the memorial service first because everyone has been focusing on the physica...

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