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Immunity or impunity? Lawsuit seeks to hold UN accountable for Haiti cholera epidemic
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/11/immunity-or-impunity-lawsuit-seeks-to-hold-un-accountable-for-haiti-cholera/?intcmp=latestnews

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Can the United Nations be held legally accountable for its actions in a U.S. court? That question is the crux  of a lawsuit filed this week that wants to hold the world organization accountable for the deaths of thousands of Haitians   in the 2010 outbreak of cholera that still smolders today.

“It’s going to be a pretty drawn-out process,” said Beatrice Lindstrom, an attorney for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IIJDH), a Boston-based group that  filed suit in Manhattan’s Federal District Court to demand that the UN pay compensation for its “reckless,” “negligent” and  “misleading” behavior in Haiti’s cholera epidemic, which began in October 2010—ten months after a devastating earthquake-- and has sickened nearly  680,000 people, killed about 8,300, and continues to afflict the battered Caribbean nation.

IJDH is seeking unspecified damages on behalf of eight Haitians—half of them fatal cholera victims—as the nucleus of a much larger class action against the UN, and also demanding that the world organization pay $2.2 billion to complete a still underfunded program of cholera eradication and recovery in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

The UN getting sued. Interesting.
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Not sure what is going one here.  The country that was devastated and received medical and  billions of dollars to rebuild  a few years ago, due to corruption in their own government that had the money to do  so without help, had themselves stashed away billions of money in Swiss banks, now is trying to get even more money because they themselves expect others to pay their way ????

Where did the worlds donations of money go to ?    Why are people still living in tent city's, why are the leaders of the country still living in opulence and the people dieing in the street ?

Ha, this is 3rd. world politics and  if Obama has his way, only a generation away from us.

I am still trying to find out where the billions of dollars from 911 went to, not to the survivors of family that died in the attacks.  Some kind of wicker wacky with Red Cross channeling funds to other programs that the donors had no intention of donating to.

Same on same oh in this case,  Haiti, where did all the money go that the worlds people sent to them ? 

When the USA stops giving money to other country's without a watch dog to insure the money is spent for the purpose it is sent, then I will cheer, but as it is, we are just paying others to be our friend and that makes us look weak and pitiful.------

  Come to think of it, under Obama for the first time in the History of America, we are weak and pitiful.   Darn we will live as the outback in Kenya where his grandmother said he was born in a shanty town, still lives as her grandson a leader of the free world will not provide her with indoor plumbing.