UN kills 10,000 in Haiti, promises to do more

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UN kills 10,000 in Haiti, promises to do more

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UN kills 10,000 in Haiti, promises to do more Rather than revive the six year old Cholera Outbreak in Haiti thread, I'm starting a new one. Mods can merge it back if it makes more sense to do that. NY Times article about how the cholera epidemic in Haiti has been traced back to infected UN troops. Quote: Angry over a six-year cholera epidemic in Haiti traced to infected United Nations peacekeepers, 158 members of Congress asked Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday to pressure the United Nations for a more effective response, including reparations to victims. By official estimates, the epidemic has killed roughly 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000 in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Some research has suggested that the death toll could be far higher. So the UN will do more Quote: The deputy spokesman for the secretary general, Farhan Haq, said in an email this week that “over the past year, the U.N. has become convinced that it needs to do much more regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak and the suffering of those affected by cholera.” He added that a “new response will be presented publicly within the next two months, once it has been fully elaborated, agreed with the Haitian authorities and discussed with member states.” The statement comes on the heels of a confidential report...[which] stated plainly that the epidemic “would not have broken out but for the actions of the United Nations.” In a separate internal report released days ago after being withheld for nearly a year, United Nations auditors said a quarter of the sites run by the peacekeepers with the organization’s Stabilization Mission in Haiti, or Minustah, that they had visited were still discharging their waste into public canals as late as 2014, four years after the epidemic began. Thanks goodness we have the UN out there saving lives and keeping the peace.