Haiti protests against UN flare again
'This epidemic is not going to go away,' UN official says

Protesters in Haiti's capital are lashing out at United Nations peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles.

Demonstrators have set up burning barricades, and Haitian police have responded with tear gas. Vehicles belonging to the UN and non-governmental organizations have been pelted with rocks.

The growing protest comes a week before national elections, and some of the demonstrators are destroying campaign posters for President Rene Preval's Unity party.

It follows days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that UN soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic into the country...

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Gunfire in Haiti as anger over cholera boils over

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itnnews | November 17, 2010

Cholera unrest hits Haiti capital

Police fire tear gas into a camp for displaced people as protests accusing UN troops of bringing cholera turn violent.

Police fired tear gas at the crowds as protesters set fire to barricades and threw rocks as vehicles

Police in Haiti have fired tear gas into a camp for internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince, the capital, following violent riots.

The unrest followed protests against the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in the country, as locals become increasingly angry over a cholera outbreak that many people blame on Nepalese troops.

The disease has killed more than 1,100 people in about three weeks.

Demonstrators set up burning barricades as vehicles were pelted with stones on Thursday. Several hundred rock-throwing youths attacked an open-top lorry carrying members of Minustah, the UN force in Haiti.

The young demonstrators, many of them in their teens, shouted slogans such as "Cholera: It's Minustah who gave it to us!" and "Minustah, go home" as the protests spread.

It was the fourth day the country had seen such demonstrations. The UN denies that it is responsible for the cholera outbreak. Earlier this week, at least two people were killed in riots against the UN in the north of Haiti...

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