Victims of cholera epidemic call for UN accountability in capital

Hundreds of activists and victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic staged a demonstration on Thursday in the capital, Port-au-Prince, to demand an apology and compensation from the United Nations, whose peacekeepers are accused of accidentally introducing the disease five years ago.

The protesters, gathered in front of the main base of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, or MINUSTAH, and angrily condemned the UN's silence regarding its responsibility in the epidemic.

"If the United Nations considered us human beings, there would have been an apology," community health worker Jean Emmanuel Larose said.