African Scholar: Aids Disease is "a weapon to wipe out Blacks"

Assistant Minister Prof Wangari Maathai yesterday claimed that HIV/Aids was a biological weapon manufactured by the developed world to wipe out the Black race from developing countries. Maathai's comments, while addressing a public workshop in Nyeri, are bound to spark off a major controversy on the origins of HIV/Aids, which continues to wreak grief and devastation on the African continent. She started by giving her academic orientation as a student of biology. She said for decades Africans had been naive in not questioning where the disease had come from, saying that the theory that it originated from monkeys was a white lie. "We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to the primitive people. They have the resources to do this," Maathai charged. She argued that the victims of these "biological weapons" have been naive in accepting any theories advanced without any questions. "Do not be naive. Aids are not a curse from God to Africans or the Black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did," she said. [more ]