News Doctors Without… Much
posted by on December 19 at 12:02 PM
I can’t get enough of this sad, bizarre story: Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in a Libyan court for purposefully giving hundreds of children HIV, charges of CIA involvement, scapegoating on all sides:
According to a Libyan intelligence report submitted to the court, the nurse, Kristiyana Vulcheva, later confessed that the vials were given to her by a British friend who was working for the KBR subsidiary of Halliburton at the time. The nurse was quoted in the report as saying that she and her colleagues used the vials to infect the children.
This case is eight years old—eight hellish years that, the nurses and doctor say have involved torture and rape to coerce the confessions. Of course Gaddafi, who has been pursuing rapprochement with Europe and the US, has everything to lose if the nurses are executed. But he seems unwilling or unable to override his country’s court and pop them out of prison. The irony is killing (literally): the Western democracies want nothing more than for Gaddafi to go back to his bald-faced dictator days and violate the local rule of law.
And talk about a deterrent for folks like Doctors Without Borders and other medical philanthropists. Show up in a hospital with bad hygiene, happen to be there when the whole floor is diagnosed, and bang—you’re a CIA operative charged with bringing down the state by (huh?) infecting kids with HIV.
And, of course, AIDS conspiracy theories in Africa and America have a long, sad history of their own—how many people will refuse smallpox vaccines because of this?
People are just fucked.
A modern day blood libel.
Wow… Under Bush the CIA tortures. Under Clinton it injected children with HIV.
So it looks like Gaddafi is hamstrung by the influence of fundamentlist muslims. Keep up apearences with the West, risk enraging the jihadists in your own back yard. Could we actually end up with him as our latest "secular(ish)" iron fisted dictator buddy, a la Musharef, Saudi and Jordanian royals, the Shah, Saddam, and on and on and on? I never thought i'd see the day, but this story brings some things in Lybia to light, that make it seem like a real possibility. There is a very real number of Lybian children who will die as a direct result of this incident scaring off international aid organizations.
Gawd, i can imagine Bulgaria could probably use every medical professional it has back home. So much for trying to hel a country that's barely worse off than your own!
So much for another supposed "success story" in the Middle East after the Great Democracy Hoedown initiated by GWB. Libya was supposed to be all better now.
Who cries for the children?
I have read about protesters wanting the five nurses and doctor freed, the US and other countries condemning the death sentence for these "Medical Professionals.”
Only the parents of the infected children protest for them. No international outrage for the children!
No UN saying clean up your act! NO US Idiots saying you must provide your people with quality healthcare Libya!
So now, who really gives a fuck for the poor children that are now sentenced to Death?!
It seems more people care for the 6 people sentenced to death, then the 400+ plus children!
Do something, if you protest for the 6, then send Aid to the 400+ children dying of AIDS!
Send Medicine, send Toys, send Money, send Ronald McDonald, send anything that will ease these childrens’ pain as they live out their lasts days on earth.
GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN!!
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