A leading disease expert has reported that UN peacekeepers from Nepal are responsible for transmitting the fatal disease to Haitians from their base camp at Mirebalais on the Artibonite River in the central part of the island-nation.
The report says that fecal matter from the base camp likely went in to the river and caused the outbreak that killed more than 2,000 and sickened 90,000 people.
Last month, anger at the UN peacekeepers spilled over in to violent riots by Haitians who said the Nepalese peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera, which had never been present in Haiti before.
While the response of attacking people who were sent to help was totally wrong, it is understandable.
The Haitian people have been through hell in the past year with the January earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people. The cholera outbreak, along with deadly storms, political instability and continuing poverty have the people stretched to their limits.
So when they learned of the cholera outbreak and rumors surfaced that it was carried by foreigners and that the UN would protect them from prosecution, their anger boiled over.
It wasn't the right response, but again, I can understand.
The best outcome now would be for there to be a full investigation of the Nepalese camp to see if peacekeeper negligence was responsible.
If they knew that their waste could make people sick and simply didn't care, they should pay a heavy price for endangering the public.
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