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Haiti's cholera victims demand UN compensation
Nov 8, 2011, 16:04 GMT
New York - More than 5,000 Haitians sickened by cholera on Tuesday demanded that the United Nations pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, claiming that Nepalese UN peacekeepers carried the disease to Haiti.
The cholera epidemic has since October 2010 killed more than 6,600 Haitians and has caused more than 475,000 others to be sick. Haiti said the epidemic is still ongoing, coming after the giant earthquake in January 2010 which killed more than 200,000 people.
The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, which assisted the victims to file the claims against the UN, said the had UN failed to screen peacekeeping troops for the disease and dumped human waste from a UN base into the Arbonite river used by millions of Haitians.
The UN mission in Haiti is composed of more than 12,000 troops and police.
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