Cholera once was unheard of Haiti. That changed when hundreds of United Nation's peacekeeping troops from Nepal arrived, following Haiti's deadly earthquake on January 12, 2010. Since then, a deadly cholera epidemic has been ravaging Haiti - an epidemic linked months ago to sewage spilled from a poorly constructed Nepali U.N. base and into a river tributary. The scientific evidence has been irrefutable on that. Yet today, 17 months after the first case of cholera, the U.N. remains in a denial mode about its role in the world's worst cholera epidemic. Tens of thousands of Haitians have died or been sickened, many as they went to streams to bathe, wash clothes, or brush their teeth. Yet the U.N.'s attitude has been like what you'd expect from, say, a despotic Third World despot who is accountable to nobody. "We don't think the cholera outbreak is attributable to any single factor," Anthony Banbury, a United Nations assistant secretary general, told the The New York Times in an article on Sunday, "In Haiti, Global....
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