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U.N. Sued
Over Cholera
in Haiti
Advocates for Haitian victims of the deadly cholera
epidemic that first afflicted their country three
years ago said they were taking the extraordinary
step on Wednesday of suing the United Nations,
asserting that the organization’s peacekeeping
force in Haiti was responsible for introducing the
disease through sewage contamination from its
barracks. Forensic studies, including one ordered
by the United Nations, have identified the culprit
bacteria as an Asian strain imported to Haiti by
Nepalese (Nepal) members of the United Nations
peacekeeping force. The studies have also linked
the spread of the cholera to a flawed sanitation
system at the Nepalese peacekeeper base, which
contaminated a tributary that feeds Haiti’s largest
river, used by Haitians for drinking and bathing.
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