Haiti's President Warns Violence Over Cholera Outbreak Will Not Be Tolerated -- The Guardian
René Préval's intervention comes after demonstrators turned on UN peacekeepers, accusing them of being source of outbreak
Haiti's president, René Préval, has warned that violence will not be tolerated after demonstrators turned on UN peacekeepers as Haitians blamed Nepalese troops as the source of the current cholera outbreak.
"Those who are creating the violence, who are looting warehouses, who are destroying other citizen's wealth, you should be reminded that no serious government will tolerate the state of disorder you are creating," Préval said in a written statement. "The food you are pillaging so that you can do your own business belongs to schoolchildren, sick people in hospitals, the poor."
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