Guatemalan President: United States medical tests 'crime against humanity'

[Bluebear]

US testing that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 years ago was a "crime against humanity", Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said.

President Barack Obama has apologised for the medical tests, in which mentally ill patients and prisoners were infected without their consent.

Mr Obama told Mr Colom the 1940s-era experiments ran contrary to American values, Guatemala said.

The US has promised an investigation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11457552

[mediaman007]

1. Do we ever go after the guilty who have acted in our name?

[Bluebear]

2. No. Look at Bush, Cheney, Blackwater, etc.

Must "move forward"!

[Warpy]

5. Not until they're all safely dead and buried

Remember how long it took for the Tuskeegee experiment to be open to scrutiny. This was likely an extension of that horror since it occurred in the latter years of it.

Likely the monsters who did this died comfortably in bed long ago.

I just hope their victims found their way to antibiotics at some point.

[gratuitous]

3. Oh, whaddya want? We apologized!

And we promise to do an investigation. Buncha ingrates. Don't they know that 9/11 changed everything?

[RedCloud]

4. Those were the values back then! Racism was a fact of every day life.

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

[Bluebear]

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