Statist scum: UN's troops were the source of a cholera epidemic that killed 8000, then it abandoned the victims

INTERNATIONAL affairs can be complicated, but sometimes a case comes along that is so simple it is almost absurd. In 2010, the United Nations made a horrendous mistake that, so far, has claimed more than 8000 lives. Its officials tried to cover it up. When the evidence came out anyway, lawyers for victims' families petitioned the UN to end the crisis, pay damages and apologise. For a year and a half, the world's leading humanitarian organisation said nothing. Then, last week, it threw out the case, saying, ''The claims are not receivable.''

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The place was Haiti. The mistake: a killer combination of cholera and gross negligence. The UN's peacekeeping mission had been in the country since 2004, when it was authorised to protect an interim government installed after a coup. Six years later the peacekeepers were still there. While rotating troops into Haiti following the disastrous 2010 earthquake, the UN neglected to adequately screen a contingent of soldiers coming from Nepal, where there was an active cholera outbreak.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/un-ducks-responsibility-for-deadly-error-in-haiti-20130301-2fbnl.html#ixzz2MMrEc4YR

Statist scum: UN's troops were the source of a cholera epidemic that killed 8000, then it abandoned the victims

Statist scum: UN's troops were the source of a cholera epidemic that killed 8000, then it abandoned the victims

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