Tripoli Six

I should have started writing my blog a long time ago I guess...What made me start finally though, was something that the bloggers community has been doing for some time quite enthusiastically. I would like to address the issue of the Tripoli Six as they call it...It is particularly important for me especially because it is concerned with people from my country....
Six years ago, 6 Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian one were kidnapped from their apartments in Libya and arrested under the conviction that they infected more than 400 Libyan kids with AIDS. They were convicted to have acted on a plot, together with CIA(!), and were tortured in a manner unknown to the civilized world.
As if this is not enough, they were sentenced to death on May 6, which is one of the biggest celebrations in Bulgaria: this is Gergyovden, the day of St.George, the Orthodox Christian protector of the brave, and also the Bulgarian Army National Holiday, an act that many people in Bulgaria considered a blatant insult. Libya disregarded the scientific inquiries made by prominent scientific researchers proving the innocence of the medics. The relatives of the kids and the Libyan government demanded that they are materially compensated by the Bulgarian government, trying to exchange this for the medics' freedom. There are two ways you could call this: dirty bargaining or simply terrorism.
For those who think my language is too strong, I provide a definition of the word "terrorism" : "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism). Libya is pretending to be a civilized country, trying to improve its relations with USA and EU, but this is still a country in which women have no right to go out without covering their face if they are over 12, in which people are tortured in prisons in order to get their self-confessions, and fancy stories of conspiracies are used to cover a humanitarian tragedy and government's carelessness about medical issues.
Libya is trying to exchange the lives of several foreign medics for a nicer face in front of the Western world. And the Western world doesn't seem to resist a lot to this. USA and EU are both embracing their warmer relations with an apparent terrorist country. Although they officially proclaim that they are behind the medics (as everyone who have their own free will and could use their logic to get to their own conclusions) they don't do anything in particular to make Khadaffi realize that recognizing the innocence of the convicted ones is the only right way to proceed.
Meanwhile, scientists proved that the kids could not have been infected while the medics were in the hospital, because the infection had started before the Bulgarians' arrival there. Bulgarians got sick and tired of quiet diplomacy and not long ago newspapers came out with cartoons mocking Khadaffi. The consequence- the Bulgarian Foreign Minister being scolded by the Libyan authorities for the insulting behavior of the Bulgarian press; and this was not enough...Libyan authorities expressed their desire that this insulting behavior will not continue! Helllooooo!!!! This is not Libyan press, this is Bulgarian press, whose first characteristics after 1989 is freedom of speech. No one can tell them what to write, nonetheless the authorities of a country for which justice equals political bargaining. I am so happy people finally started to express their opinions without fearing bad consequences! Yes, the world should start learning, the world should start noticing that out there, in a country whose territory is almost wholly covered by desert sands, there are medical workers who are convicted of a terrible crime they didn't commit. The country in target is Libya. The only crime existing is not that of the medics, it is that of the Libyan authorities against the medics.
So this is my first blog. Unfortunately, it is provoked by a terrible injustice. This blog follows the initiative of the Nature editorial, "Libya's travesty",
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7109/full/443245b.html
I would also want to include another link, to a shocking movie showing the truth about the medics and the terrible medical conditions in Africa; addressing the issue of reused syringes and the humanitarian catastrophe in this continent. The movie is from Mickey Grant, who, not surprisingly, could not meet with Khadaffi and ask him personally about this painful issue. This movie undoubtedly shows that the only guilty ones in this case are Libyan authorities...Here's the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5182317638126553942&q=injection%2Blibya
I encourage everyone the spread the word. The world NEEDS to know....