Haitians say, ‘Withdraw U.N. troops’

Haitians demonstrated in front of the United Nations building in New York on Aug. 5 as the toll from the cholera epidemic in their home country continues to rise. Epidemiologists report that U.N. occupation troops are the probable source of the deadly strain of cholera that is ravaging Haiti. The Citizens Committee for Haitian Protection, which called the protest, demanded the immediate withdrawal of all U.N. occupation troops and reparations for all those affected by the epidemic, which has already killed 5,500 people and sickened almost 400,000. Many of the slogans were directed at Bill Clinton, the overseer of the relief effort that has collected much money but brought little relief to the victims of the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.

— Report and photo by G. Dunkel