Freedom for innocent medics in Libya

Demnog · May 15, 2004, 7:08pm

I know that this topic is not related to philosophy but it is important!

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian were sentenced to death by firing squad in Libya on May 6th for deliberately infecting 400 children with the HIV virus. The sentence came after a trial which the European Union and non-government organizations as Amnesty In-ternational described as flawed.
The Libyan court based its verdict solely on confessions of 2 of the nurses and a Palestin-ian doctor who were tortured into making these confessions during the investigation. The medics were beaten including falaqa (beatings on the soles of the feet) and beating with electric cables; subjected to sexual assault and extensive electric shocks; suspended from a height by the arms; they were blindfolded and threatened with barking dogsâ€™ attacks. These confessions were later retracted. As of today the Libyan officers who tortured the nurses are not brought to justice â€¦
The Libyan court disregarded the report of expert witnesses, including the renowned French researcher Dr Luc Montagnier who first isolated the
HIV virus. The report of Professor Montagnier showed that the infection had already begun before those accused started working at the Benghazi hospital, and continued to spread after they were arrested. The expertâ€™s conclusion was that the epidemic was most likely caused by poor hygiene at the hospital.
Instead the court accepted a report of a commission consisting of Libyan doctors who re-jected the Western expert’s testimony and said the Bulgarians willfully infected the children with the virus through blood transfusions.

According to Western diplomats the prosecutions arose because the authorities simply needed someone to blame for a tragedy which caused outrage

in Libya.

Colonel Gaddafi obviously needs scapegoats to take the blame of his government for the failures of the Libyan health system.

Please help us save the lives of 5 INNOCENT people!

If you feel this unfair and wrong,
here’s what you can do:

send email with the text above and subject

“FREEDOM FOR THE INNOCENT MEDICS IN LIBYA”

to the following email addresses:

infopoint@coe.int

visites@coe.int

president@whitehouse.gov

vice.president@whitehouse.gov

And also forward the URL of this page to everyone in your IM contact lists, on IRC and wherever you can.

Thanks for the support You are the One that makes this world better !!!

This text is taken from:
angelfire.com/creep/bgmedics/

If you want to sign a petition you should also visit and read more about this:
54ka.pimdesign.org/index54.html

An this is what is written by BBC and CNN
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3689355.stm
cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05 … .bulgaria/

Please help!

The_Golden_Turd · December 11, 2011, 2:33am

Colonel Qaddafi is a good man, who doesn’t need this blemish on his otherwise spotless record. I will need to ask you to retract this statement so that no dishonour falls upon the Libyans or Qaddafi’s dedication to fundamental human rights and just procedures.

He is a international leader, and we have to live with him. It’s not like we can just move in and bomb the fuck out of him, expecting his people to kill him and hand over their oil willingly. The West isn’t that powerful by persuasive-moral force alone to effect that double standard… and besides, any attempt to use coercive force will be met with great resistance from Italy and especially France, long time pacifists strongly opposed to American imperialism and unilateral undertakings.

If you keep accusing Qaddafi of these things, it will cause him great mental stress, and he’ll have to call to Ukraine for a nurse to take care of him 24/7.

Besides, if something like this really happened, it would be leaked out over the offical and big name medias. This looked like it was leaded out on wikipedia or some anti-government hacker rumor mill. I don’t see the legitimacy in this kind of stuff.

Please focus on more pressing concerns, like the war in Iraq. This is clearly going to end in a mass defeat, with a draft and tens of thousands of dead soldier. Saddam vowed to turn Iraq into another Vietnam, and he is still on the loose. We must take every effort we can to undermine him as much as possible, and make everyone feel the pain of this. I am hearing that there is already the start of a civil war there. We must do everything we can to discourage the Americans and encourage the partisans to resist. There is no way possible american imperialism will triumph. Saddam is neutral to the US, and Iran only has peaceful intentions to the US, and afganistan isn’t the Taliban. Instead of bombing the taliban, we should open up a embassy with them and give them bread. Bush doesn’t know what he is doing. Qaddafi is a great socialist and a anarchist. He is a leader of the green movement, and supports human rights much more than Bush or America ever will.