Thousands of Haitans have been killed by Cholera over the last six years and it’s long been known that the U.N. had a hand in this. BUT the U.N. has stayed silent on the issue, until now.

Finally Ban Ki-moon has acknowledged that the United Nations had a role in the initial outbreak, it’s believed that U.N. peacekeepers imported the disease.

And now he says that there needs to be “significant new set of U.N. actions” to fight the problem…. Isn’t this all six years too late?

The U.N. has stopped short of accepting all responsibility and still maintains legal immunity and won’t be entertaining people who want to bring legal action against it.

A report was put together by a special rapporteur named Philip Alston, he is a longtime U.N. advisor, an NYU law prof.

The Washington Post reported:

In the 19-page report, obtained from an official who had access to it, Mr. Alston took issue with the United Nations’ public handling of the outbreak, which was first documented in mid-October 2010, shortly after people living along the Meille River began dying from the disease.

Mr. Alston wrote that the United Nations’ Haiti cholera policy “is morally unconscionable, legally indefensible and politically self-defeating.” He added, “It is also entirely unnecessary.” The organization’s continuing denial and refusal to make reparations to the victims, he argued, “upholds a double standard according to which the U.N. insists that member states respect human rights, while rejecting any such responsibility for itself.”

So, they say they are going to finally do something about it. Personally, I think, even if you had good intentions you have to clean up any mess you make! Over 10,000 people have died, so this is no small mess!