PORT-AU-PRINCE - Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital on Sunday, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups, witnesses said. The protest in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince was one of the largest since the Jan. 12 quake that killed more than 200,000 people and left over 1 million homeless. It reflected still simmering anger among survivors over problems in the massive international relief effort.

Aid agencies from around the world have moved tons of rice and other food into Haiti but distributions to the hungry and homeless have been slow and sometimes chaotic. Banging on plastic buckets and waving branches and palm fronds, the protesters surged past piles of earthquake rubble - and a woman bathing by the side of the road - to the city hall in Petionville, where they accused Mayor Lydie Parent of hoarding aid. “I am hungry, I am dying of hunger. Lydie Parent keeps the rice and doesn’t give us anything. They never go distribute where we live,” one protester said. Parent was not immediately available for comment. Most of the demonstrators were women. Aid agencies are doling out food to women to prevent men from dominating distribution sites, and because they believe women are more likely to share it with children and relatives.