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Only the UN can restore Minustah's legitimacy.
But for all Minustah's problems, it cannot leave now.
With security broadly restored, Minustah's raison d'être became fuzzier.
But a series of epidemiological and genome studies have all but established Minustah's role as fact.
But as Minustah's own Status of Forces Agreement suggests, legal immunity shouldn't imply a vacuum of accountability.
All this dismay was over the leadership of Brazilian General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro, then Minustah's military commander.
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A century later the United States generously built up the country's infrastructure using virtual slave labour during a brutal military occupation.Today's foreign do-gooders in Haiti are the 9,000 members of Minustah, the UN's peacekeeping force.
MINUSTAH, the UN's 9,000-member 9,000-member force in Haiti, has been blamed for a cholera outbreak there.
In the case of Haiti, the activities of MINUSTAH, the UN's stabilisation mission there, are protected by a so-called Status of Forces Agreement which affords the stabilisation force broad protection from actions in the Haitian courts.
Minustah, the UN's peacekeeping force in Haiti, is investigating a claim that septic tanks at one of its bases leaked into a tributary of the Artibonite.The big fear is that cholera will spread to the 1,300 refugee camps in the capital, where sanitation is poor, clean water is lacking, and children play barefoot in dirty puddles.
"Though [the authors] don't go as far as saying Minustah is responsible, it's really difficult logically to see what other options are available," says Beatrice Lindstrom, a lawyer for an IJDH affiliate.Using these findings to win compensation for cholera victims, however, will not be easy.
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