A/HRC/25/71 while 229 camps are reportedly on private land. No legal analysis of the land status has been conducted. Eighteen per cent of IDP sites were closed because of return programmes and 11 per cent because of evictions. These evictions, when forced and carried out with the assistance of law enforcement officials and without offering an alternative solution, constitute a violation of human rights.32 73. The people who have left the camps in the past two years (over 1.85 million) have not necessarily resolved their housing problem. Most have received a grant to help them find shelter for about a year, but this cannot be considered a sustainable solution. 74. Those that remain in camps live in very precarious, sometimes inhumane conditions. The independent expert visited the KID and Acra camps in Port-au-Prince and the Mayard/Beaudoin and St. Helena camps in Jacmel and found many shortcomings, especially in the KID camp where there is considerable overcrowding, and most dwellings, far from being houses, are small plots covered with plastic sheeting, which is no use when it rains, and where there are no toilets. In other camps, the situation is better but not necessarily good. There is no drinking water available in any of the four camps. There are no schools easily accessible for children. The St. Helena camp in Jacmel must be returned to its owner in March 2014. The 86 families composed of 218 people who are housed there have to leave without knowing where they are going next. 75. While the efforts of the Government and the international community to ensure the well-being of displaced persons must be recognized, they must be intensified to bring to an end, without further delay, the precarious living conditions of these families whose most basic rights, including to housing, hygiene, health, education cannot be realized. This is a situation where human dignity is being eroded day after day; and it is likely to continue in the absence of more radical measures to protect the population, to the extent possible, from the effects of natural disasters, since the earthquake that took place there more than four years ago. 76. Another major disaster which is not natural, but man-made, and with dire consequences is the cholera epidemic that has spread since October 2010. According to estimates, more than 8,300 people have died of the disease, almost 7 per cent of the population (680,800 people) have been affected and about 1,000 people continue to die each year. United Nations troops are suspected of having caused the epidemic. A complaint was filed with a court in New York in October 2013. The United Nations rejected the accusations, based on section 29 of article VIII of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, and has done extensive work to counteract the epidemic and to help victims. 77. In the opinion of the independent expert, the diplomatic difficulties surrounding this issue must be overcome in order to assure the Haitian people that the epidemic will be halted as soon as possible and that full reparation for damages will be provided. Some clarifications as to what really happened need to be given and, if necessary, those responsible for the tragedy should be punished, in accordance with the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law mentioned earlier (para. 63). The United Nations should be the first to honour these principles. In this connection, the independent expert endorses the words of his predecessor, who, in his most recent report, noted that “while the independent expert deplores the way that certain organizations have exploited the issue for political ends, he is aware of the need that victims or their families 32 16 Since there is not enough room in this report, the independent expert would like to draw attention to the important document published on this matter by Amnesty International, “Nulle part où aller”. Expulsions forcées dans les camps pour personnes déplacées d’Haïti, London, 2013. GE.14-10841