Anti-UN riots hit Haiti, blame UN troops for cholera
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Nov 15 (Reuters) - Protesters in Haiti who blamed United Nations peacekeepers for the epidemic of cholera there rioted in two cities on Monday, hurling rocks and setting fire to a police station, police and eyewitnesses said.
In the northern city of Cap-Haitien, the demonstrators torched a police station after confronting U.N. troops, while in Hinche in the central region, they threw stones at Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers.
A cholera epidemic, which broke out last month, has killed more than 900 people in the poor earthquake-hit Caribbean country, and the U.N. mission has repeatedly denied widespread rumors that Nepalese U.N. troops brought the deadly disease to Haiti. (Reporting by Jospeh Guyler Delva, Writing by Pascal Fletcher, Editing by Sandra Maler)
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If this means the OAS must impose its will for the next 24 months in order to get things done as well as halting the cholera epidemic, then so be it.
Otherwise nothing will be accomplished and tens of thousands of Haitians will die and most of the rest of the population will continue to needlessly suffer.
It is time for firm OAS action even though such arbitrary action appears contrary to its charter.
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