Nobel Peace Prize Winner says AIDS was 'Made to Kill Blacks' - HIV Made in a Lab
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 03:46PM
As Prof Wangari Maathai received praise from President Kibaki and other
Kenyans, she courted controversy on the issue of HIV/Aids and human
rights. Responding to questions from Asian and European media, the
minister said although she had no proof, she felt that HIV/Aids
targeted Africa. "I want to dedicate the prize the African woman. I
want to hold and embrace her. She has suffered so much and I feel this
is an honour to her. "Although I am a biologist, I have not done any
research. I may not be able to say who developed the (HIV) virus but it
was meant to wipe out the Black race," she said. When she first blamed
the HIV/Aids on "some sadistic scientists," the professor kicked a
storm, leaving some experts outraged and others supporting her.
Initially, said Maathai, HIV/Aids was only concentrated in selected
spots in the continent, only afflicting the "undesirable classes". She
insisted that some scientists from the developed world deliberately
researched and developed the virus in order to "punish the Blacks".
She said the West had not done enough to help Africa cope with the
effects of Aids. "Why is the rest of the world just watching, doing
nothing while Africans are being wiped out? The rest of the world has
abandoned us," she said. "Why has there been so much secrecy about
AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of
flags. That makes me suspicious." [more 
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- In August Kenya's daily Standard newspaper quoted
Ms Maathai saying HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of
mass extermination. Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38
million people across the world infected with HIV, and the vast
majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS estimates. [more]