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UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president. – World body invokes legal immunity to rebuff claims despite studies identifying UN peacekeepers as source of the outbreak

Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince and Ed Pilkington in New York THE GUARDIAN The UN has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from 5,000 victims of the Haiti cholera epidemic, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times and widely believed […]