Haiti cholera victims threaten to sue the UN
Haiti cholera victims threaten to sue the UN
The victims include the families of the 8000 people who have died and hundreds of thousands of people who have fallen sick
Victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic have given the United Nations a 60-day deadline to start talks about billions of dollars worth of compensation or face legal action.
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The cholera epidemic began in Haiti in 2010 near a camp for UN soldiers, where there were leaking sewage pipes. Some human waste was also dumped near a river outside the camp.
The camp housed UN soldiers from Nepal, where cholera is endemic. The UN's own cholera expert, Danielle Lantagne, has said that Haiti's outbreak is likely to have come from UN soldiers.
The victims include relatives of the 8,000 people who have died and hundreds of thousands of people who have fallen sick.
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The UN's relative silence on the matter so far may be because it simply does not know what to do in the face of what could be a series of catastrophic and deadly errors, says the BBC's International Development Correspondent Mark Doyle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22458006
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