Haiti Place What's happening in Haiti now is the UN's Watergate

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  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place Staff
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 13, 2015
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  • Category : Haiti News
  • Description : The cholera outbreak in Haiti is the UN’s Watergate, except with far fewer consequences for the people responsible and an immeasurably more disastrous real-world impact.

Overview

  • And an exchange of letters between three UN special rapporteurs and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon late last year shows that the world body is still shielding itself from scrutiny.

    A cholera outbreak began about 10 months after Haiti’s catastrophic January 2010 earthquake. The outbreak was curious even despite the ruination of the country’s infrastructure and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people after the quake — there hadn’t been a single case of the disease in the country since the mid-1960s or perhaps even earlier.

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    P    hoto: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leaves a home he visited during a trip to the cholera-afflicted rural village of Los Palmas July 14, 2014. Together with Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, Ban launched a ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ to promote efforts to alleviate a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and has been linked to the U.N.’s own peacekeepers. Picture taken July 14, 2014.
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