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Sex bulgariska sjuksköterskor och en palestinsk läkare sitter fängslade i Tripoli, Libyens huvudstad, anklagade för att 1998 medvetet ha spridit HIV bland 400 barn på sjukhus i landet. En konspiration ledd av CIA och Mossad säger Khadaffis domare, som vill döma dem till döden; orsakat av de dåliga sanitära förhållandena på sjukhusen säger alla andra, inklusive de italienska läkare som undersökt saken.

Skarpt formulerad ledare i Nature:

Despite the medics' plight, the United States agreed in May to re-establish diplomatic relations with Libya, 18 years after the bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland that killed 270 civilians. Many observers had expected a resolution of the medics' case to be part of the deal. And the European Union has given Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, red-carpet treatment at the European Commission in Brussels.

International diplomacy, dealing as it does with geopolitical and economic realpolitik, by necessity often involves turning a blind eye. But its lack of progress in response to the medics' case in Libya is an affront to the basic democratic principles that the United States and the European Union espouse. Diplomacy has lamentably failed to deliver.

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Via: Declan Butler, som tycker bloggvärlden ska reagera.