The evil ones?

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So the result was terrible. A team of foreign medical staff deliberately doing harm to hundreds of children. I have been following this story for a while now, and am kicking myself for not writing about it earlier. A Pakistani doctor and a team of 5 Bulgarian nurses knowingly infecting 438 children with HIV. At least those were the charges. The African nation handed down the stiffest sentence possible. Execution. Fair? You tell me.

Suddenly, one starts to rationalize. How could medics, charged with caring for children be so monstrous? Stories slowly emerge that those charged are wrongfully imprisoned, and will die without the facts presenting themselves. It seems the problem wasn't murderous intent, but a culture of overwork, poor sanitary standards, coupled with lack of proper funding. The staff in charge of infecting the children were in fact innocent, but were caught in a trap which led to a dire consequence.

Those are the two stories. I know you are familiar with the outcome, because it has become a major story now, as opposed to an obscure side track, which has been the case for the last years.

I ask though, what should happen? Who is guilty, who is innocent?

... to be continued....