Residents of the largest slum in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince have been demonstrating over the country's response to the cholera outbreak.
The protesters in Cite Soleil said the government and the UN have
failed to protect them, as the number of people killed by the highly
contagious water-borne disease soared to 724.
They also vented
their anger at NGOs operating in the country, where a devastating
earthquake on January 12 killed more than 250,000 people
and destroyed homes, forcing more than one million people to seek
shelter in cramped makeshift camps.
Cath Turner, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Port-au-Prince, said several hundred people joined the demonstration in Cite Soleil, where many cholera deaths have occurred.
"They live near a rubbish dump which is normally a site for household and industrial waste, but for the last year human waste has been added to that," our correspondent said.
"Of course, with the cholera outbreak, human faeces and water mixed together is a sure way to get the disease.
"We saw a truck that was carrying human waste to the dump, but it was forced to turn around and retreat because the people started throwing rocks at it."
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