A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the virus that causes AIDS, provoking a chorus of Western condemnation.
The six deny infecting 426 children, more than 50 of whom have since died, with HIV at the hospital in the late 1990s.
The defendants' main lawyer said they planned to appeal to the Supreme Court against their latest conviction, which some analysts say Libya may use to strengthen its hand as it seeks foreign financial compensation in order to placate the families.
The International Council of Nurses and World Medical Association said the ruling turned a blind eye to evidence -- including from Luc Montagnier, a French doctor who first detected the HIV virus -- that the children were infected well before the medics arrived in Benghazi in 1998.
Tripoli has demanded 10 million euros (7 million pounds) for each infected child's family.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19122006/325/foreign-medics-sentenced-die-libya-case.html
2006-12-19 05:17:01 · 12 answers · asked by kayamat_ka_din 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Its all about money, the Libyans don't give a damn about those kids or their families!
Gaddafi is dangling a carrot in front of Bulgaria!
are they going to release these six innocent people if Bulgaria pay?
I don't think so
But unfortunately there ain't much we can do about this case. My prayers are with each and every family member of those six people my prayers are with the Benghazi six and my prayers are with those kids. My God open the eyes of Gaddafi and set them free.
Good luck Bulgaria i will stand behind you
2006-12-19 18:38:11 · answer #1 · answered by sweet - angel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question must be placed in the government category, because the problem is no more legal, ethical and social. It is just a dirty political game.
It is clear to me that Libya IS blackmailing the Western World but what I find striking and embarrassing is the fact that this economically and politically powerful world does nothing to oppose Libyan foreign policy of trading with human lives. I am fed up with the world most famous politics, expressing "their concern about the fate of the Bulgarian nurses" and "their hope for a fair trial". These words are just the hypocritical facade of their inhuman foreign policy of passiveness in the face of iniquity. Where are the international economical sanctions now? Why don't we put Libya in isolation? Or the smell of petrol is stronger than that of human blood...
To those who wonder why they should be concerned with a problem not directly related to them, I can only say that they can not see further than the ends of their noses. One feuilleton of a Bulgarian poet and publicist described the "political winter" in the West more than a century ago. And I now realize that the situation has not changed much. Perhaps the only difference is that while Botev believed in the "equitable summer of nations" a century ago, nowadays we can only hope that the new Ice Age will ever come to an end.
2006-12-19 14:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by JAM-Just Ask Me :-) 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This particular hospital recruited a lot Indian Nationals in the 1980`s and 1990`s.I wonder how they are faring.Most Soviet alligned countries helped decadent Islamic regimes and this is the price they pay.I knew a Dentist who served in that region
(Libya).He told of funny wierd situations such as telephone wire tapes..etc
2006-12-19 21:19:52 · answer #3 · answered by ucmas2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know too much about this case but what are they doing in Libya anyway? Any foreigner would be seen as 'spies'. Some people talk about 'blackmail' and 'isolation' but just how may countries are going to be 'isolated', lets see, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, North Korea, some South American countries, etc. Before long these countries will get together to 'isolate' western countries.
2006-12-19 20:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's either a ploy for money or for some sort of deal-making. Proof positive once again that leaders of countries use their people as pawns- even if it is children.
The muslims, up in arms citing this as some ploy from the non-muslim countries to undermine them, must have failed to note that the doctor who was sentenced to death is Palestinian ( Ashraf Alhajouj) and probably muslim too.
Muslim, Christian, HIV, or Oil- none of it has anything to do with what's right for the people, just those in power seeking more.
-BD
2006-12-19 13:35:47 · answer #5 · answered by Perfectly Said 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It it is not a free trial, it is a new kind of terrorism and of blackmailing. Our nurses are almost 8 years in jail and are broken.
Libya is ruled by a dictator.
It was a very bad news for us, just before Christmas.
2006-12-19 14:17:20 · answer #6 · answered by assya t 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
money!not if they are owning the oil over there and they belong to the arabian org. this is about to prove that the sickness are coming from the west,that is a way to say that everything bad came from the west and the palestinian because of his relationship with the group he is in trouble,that is politic.
2006-12-19 13:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by ticoguana 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
not only that, those libians have a stone age mentality, they use needles a couple of hundred time, they just dont understand how dangerous that is
2006-12-19 21:58:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, more blackmail on the Libyans part.!!!
Seems to be the way down there to extort money from honest people.!!!
Crooks.!!!
2006-12-19 13:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by JAM123 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
if it happened anywhere, they would have to pay some kind of compensation for the victims.
so what is wrong with that?
2006-12-19 16:51:06 · answer #10 · answered by vv 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋