The Six From Libya

The media was and still is covering the so called case of “the six from Libya”— five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, who has Bulgarian citizenship. They were accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV. They stayed in a Libyan prison for 8 years. Recently their death sentences were lifted and they were freed wit the help of the EU. Many experts backed the medics and said that the children were already sick when the Bulgarians arrived.
The medics are in Bulgaria now, free, and talking to the press about their horrifying tortures and their life from now on.
They, actually are not talking only to the press, but also sold the copyrights of their story to a Hollywood production company. So, there will be movie about their tortures, the Libyan prisons, the sick children, and human rights in general.
I talked to some of my Bulgarian friends and most of them agree that the idea of a movie about the stories of the medics is great, and that the world has to know about it. (You can imagine what they can do to you in such a prison for 8 years…)
Many feel that the medics have been used as pawns by Libya. A special fund has been set up by the European Union (EU), the United States, Libya and Bulgaria. The “compensation” is for about $400 million, $1 million for each infected child. Libya is also seeking normal political and trade relations with the EU.
But what about the infected children, how and where they will be treated? How future infections are going to be prevented?

I am not 100 percent sure how I feel about all this, what do you think?

Radina Gigova