Re: [xmca] Off topic - Miserable decisions

From: David Preiss (davidpreiss@uc.cl)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 09:30:44 PST


And according to the US government Libya and Khadaffi are not a
dictatorship anymore, uh?

On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Phil Chappell wrote:

> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2087151.ece
> http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=5737
>
> Sorry - I have no better place to spend my anger than here over the
> decision in Libya to hold Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor
> responsible for hundreds of kids contracting HIV. The decision to
> execute - KILL - these people comes after they have been
> incarcerated for over 7 years, and their involvement in the
> children's contraction of HIV is clearly absent.
>
> While I puzzle over the social, cultural, historical and
> institutionally-embedded issues of second language learning and
> teaching, I try not to leave these awful human injustices alone.
> After all, it's all interwoven.
>
> Phil - a simple person from a complicated tribe
>
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