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| Bulgarian nurses fear prison murder in Libya |
| 2004-05-08 |
| Five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death by a Libyan court for spreading an HIV epidemic among Libyan children fear they will be murdered in jail as they wait to appeal their verdicts, Bulgarian media reported yesterday. A court in the port city of Benghazi on Thursday sentenced the five women and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting 426 children with the virus believed to cause Aids. The EU and the United States condemned the verdicts, fuelling speculation in Sofia that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is in the midst of a campaign to mend ties with the West, could pardon the six. The nurses said they had been told they would be moved from Benghazi to Tripoli pending their appeal. They expressed fears that they might be murdered by other inmates if moved to one prison in the Libyan capital where they had already served time. They said they had received death threats there. The nurses were speaking by telephone from prison. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #2 Libya is trying to blame the AIDS epidemic on others. That's all. It's what the religion of peace does best, blame others, preferably infidels, kill them, and deny their own problems. (which only makes the problems worse) They cuddle blame like a security blanket. Unfortunately it won't save them, from themselves. |
| Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-05-08 9:28:27 PM |
| #1 I find it terribly shocking that any nurse would deliberately infect a bunch of children with AIDS. It seems likely that the hospital staff was either negligent or equipped with nothing but anicent medical equipment, and that the nurses have been convicted of murder on the basis of irrationality, xenophobia, and a wave of anger and fear. |
| Posted by: Old Guy 2004-05-08 7:38:26 PM |