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So far, several badly injured casualties have been retrieved and transported to the Minustah logistics base, which thankfully remains intact.
Banners slung across the streets, in contrast, bear skulls and crossbones: "Justice and reparations for all victims of the Minustah cholera".
In December 2004, at hearings in Brazil, the MINUSTAH commander testified that the mission had been strongly pressured by the international community to use violence.
Last year Brazil, which commands the Minustah contingent, announced that it would train 1,500 members of a Haitian defence force, possibly as engineers.But does Haiti need an army?
After calling the UN's headquarters in New York and the Minustah base in Port-au-Prince dozens of times, they were told that Minustah's Claims Unit would receive their petition and the sheaf of claims forms accompanying it.
An independent investigation should be carried out on the Minustah latrines, but ultimately it could have been anyone – conditions were ripe for cholera because international policy towards Haiti hasn't changed in decades.
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Now known by the acronym MINUSTAH, the U.N. forces never left.
Far from providing security for Haitians in the aftermath of the coup, Minustah stood by while thousands of Haitians who had supported the elected government were killed, and officials of the constitutional government jailed.
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.
Serge's conversation runs through modern slavery, voodoo, cuisine, art, music and the iniquities of Minustah, the UN stabilisation mission that still exerts a powerful influence in the country.
On November 8th the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), a Boston-based advocacy group, submitted 5,000 claims to the organisation for damages totalling at least $250m on behalf of Haitian cholera victims, on the grounds that Minustah imported the disease into the country.
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