This was a new disaster that shocked the world. Cholera had somehow arrived in haiti and it wasnt long before rumors that un nepalese peacekeepers were involved led us to a base on the banks of the countrys largest river. What are you digging, why are you digging here . Well were not being told exactly whats going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage, there are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of mirebalais. Back then, it felt like wed stumbled on the scene of a crime. Now, after a series of investigations including by the un itself it seems thats exactly what did happen. In the more than 2 years since we first visited this site, almost everything that we suspected from the scenes that we found now appears to be true. Scientists have said that the cholera found in that river is almost identical to a strain of the disease found in nepal before those soldiers were deployed. Even bill cl
Leaving dozens, then hundreds, and soon thousands of haitians dead in its wake. Id reported from war zones for years and from haiti since a day after the earthquake but this was a new disaster that shocked the world. Cholera had somehow arrived in haiti and it wasnt long before rumors that un nepalese peacekeepers were involved led us to a base on the banks of the countrys largest river. What are you digging, why are you digging here . Well were not being told exactly whats going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage, there are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of mirebalais. Back then, it felt like wed stumbled on the scene of a crime. Now, after a series of investigations including by the un itself it seems thats exactly what did happen. In the more than 2 years since we first visited this site, almost everything that we suspected from the scenes that we found now appears to be true.
Leaving dozens, then hundreds, and soon thousands of haitians dead in its wake. Id reported from war zones for years and from haiti since a day after the earthquake but this was a new disaster that shocked the world. Cholera had somehow arrived in haiti and it wasnt long before rumors that un nepalese peacekeepers were involved led us to a base on the banks of the countrys largest river. What are you digging, why are you digging here . Well were not being told exactly whats going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage, there are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of mirebalais. Back then, it felt like wed stumbled on the scene of a crime. Now, after a series of investigations including by the un itself it seems thats exactly what did happen. In the more than 2 years since we first visited this site, almost everything that we suspected from the scenes that we found now appears to be true.
Leaving dozens, then hundreds, and soon thousands of haitians dead in its wake. Id reported from war zones for years and from haiti since a day after the earthquake but this was a new disaster that shocked the world. Cholera had somehow arrived in haiti and it wasnt long before rumors that un nepalese peacekeepers were involved led us to a base on the banks of the countrys largest river. What are you digging, why are you digging here . Well were not being told exactly whats going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage, there are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of mirebalais. Back then, it felt like wed stumbled on the scene of a crime. Now, after a series of investigations including by the un itself it seems thats exactly what did happen. In the more than 2 years since we first visited this site, almost everything that we suspected from the scenes that we found now appears to be true.
Years and from haiti since a day after the earthquake but this was a new disaster that shocked the world. Cholera had somehow arrived in haiti and it wasnt long before rumors that un nepalese peacekeepers were involved led us to a base on the banks of the countrys largest river. What are you digging, why are you digging here . Well were not being told exactly whats going on here, but it certainly smells like sewage, there are toilets right there, and the liquid seems to be draining into this river just a few meters away that flows into the nearby town of mirebalais. Back then, it felt like wed stumbled on the scene of a crime. Now, after a series of investigations including by the un itself it seems thats exactly what did happen. In the more than 2 years since we first visited this site, almost everything that we suspected from the scenes that we found now appears to be true. Scientists have said that the cholera found in that river is almost identical to a strain of the disease found