The Bulgarian medics in Lybia

[Nike]

I don't know if you have heard about the death sentence for 5 Bulgarian medics in Lybia. The case is very complicated and you could find more information on this site (http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=34514) or on other sites. The situation is something like this: "Libya has sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian
doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately
infecting some 400 children with HIV.

Libyan police arrested the Bulgarians in February 1999.
They were in prison until September 2002, when a high
tribunal in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, acquitted them
of conspiracy charges and handed the case over to an ordinary
criminal court. They were then placed under house arrest in
Tripoli until being detained again when their trial recommenced
in the eastern city of Benghazi in September.

The French doctor who first isolated the HIV virus Professor
Montagnier and Italian Aids scholar Vittorio Collizzi have
said a hospital Aids epidemic in Libya was caused by poor
hygiene, and not by the seven medical workers who are on
trial on charges of deliberately spreading the disease.

This tragedy is probably due to negligence' - Professor Montagnier

We have a profound respect for all families involved in the AIDS tragedy
but we want
FREEDOM FOR BULGARIAN MEDICS IN LIBYA."

This is a letter we send to the White House, EU etc.

Now, there is a vote on the site of Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.net/) . The question is: "Do you agree with decreasing the death sentence of those who tranfused infected with AIDS blood in the Lybian children?" The first option is Yes, the second No. Please, vote!

PS. The vote isn't working right now - too much votes!

Sample picture - original (http://uploads.mp3-bg.com:8080/post-34-1084469688.jpg)
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[Drake Maethor]

Arab writing sure is beautiful, but I don't understand a thing of it...
So, is still the same poll there?
I don't want to vote in the wrong poll, you know! ;)

Anyway if it is the same poll, relax, the YES is winning with a 86,9 percent!

BTW I believe death penalty should be abollished in all parts of the world. Having a murderer state doesn't help anything.

[Henrik]

Originally posted by Drake Maethor
BTW I believe death penalty should be abollished in all parts of the world. Having a murderer state doesn't help anything.

Other than preventing the offender from commiting the crime again.....

[Nike]

I guess the vote on Al Jazeera is over now! Still, the poll here is still active. Thank you to all who have voted!

[Drake Maethor]

Originally posted by Henrik
Other than preventing the offender from commiting the crime again.....

Putting him in jail has the same effect...

[kowd]

But the question here is not wether the medics should pe sentenced to death or be left to rot in the jail!
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The point is that there should be no trial at all, because they are innocent. And we are trying to say this: Lybia has the right to choose it's extreme punishment methods but not to treat our people in such a way because there should be no trial at all.
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It is stupid and in the same time sad that this is no longer a medical trial. Now it is political. Because there were other doctors from different neighboring (for Lybia) countries or one that were stronger that Bulgaria politically. And their medics were soon freed and now their countries or names are not even mentioned. The Bulgarians were even accused of Bioterrorism!
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The real problem with the spreading of the disease was the low hygiene which was due to the embargo that Lybia was imposed. Our doctors did't have the needed syringes and other tools and had to use them on more than one patient. And last but not least if there wasn't so many HIV-infected Lybians, there would have been no problem.
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I am truly sorry for the infected children and their families. But I am even more worried about the way their suffering is used against our medics for political gains. I have no idea of what the end of it all is going to be, but I am just frustrated when polititions mess up all the things!
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Do you know that Lybia's leader - Kadaffi (spelling?) used Bulgarian doctors for personal medical personell for around 20 years?!? Then how it has come for him to doubt their professionalism? Hm. Stupid.
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There were some protest in Lybia demanding death sentences in which took part the families of the children + other people. They all were shouting and waving posters written in Bulgarian which looked confusingly the same. It like a well-organised political meeting to celebrate the birthday of the "The gloruous leader". But it really celebrated the death penalties of our medics.
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Moreover it is stupid, because Lybia is so blindly pursuing it's revenge that it has forgotten about the children themselvses. They are protesting against our doctors and not for their children. The trial has been prolonged for several years (5 or 6 I don't know) and some of the children are now grown-ups and they are already sexually active. Who will prevent them from further spreading of the disease. And why is Lybia not demanding help for it's hospitals or people and is insisting only on revenge.
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Yes I am prejudiced. I know this, but it's good for you to know my opinion. This way you may ignore half of my words and still find the case horrible.
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One more thing - this is an example of how weak a country might be. It cant't protect it's own citizens from being "legally" killed and years have passed with no result.
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Hm. Opinion?

[Nike]

Here's (http://www.freemedics.co.uk/) another site!

[Krum The Terrible]

They are not guilty ,please support our national cause.

[Dobber]

I'm all for letting them go!