PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Several hundred protesters stoned a U.N. patrol and yelled anti-U.N. slogans in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday as anger spread over a cholera epidemic that is killing dozens of people every day.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who accuse U.N. peacekeepers of bringing the disease to the Caribbean nation, where national elections are to be held on November 28, more than 10 months after a devastating earthquake.
Reports that Nepalese U.N. troops were the source of the raging cholera outbreak have angered many in the Western Hemisphere's poorest state, although the United Nations says there is no conclusive evidence to support this.
A patrol of U.N. troops in their traditional blue helmets withdrew hastily after they were pelted with stones by the demonstrators, who also tried to block streets with rocks and debris. The protesters shouted "MINUSTAH must go" and "MINUSTAH brought cholera to Haiti," referring to the acronym of the U.N. mission...
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