I know I have written about this crime few times but I will not stop writing in support of the children, this is the least I can do for my country's neglected tragic victims.
Here are some recent quotes from some news organisations regarding this matter:
140 journalists from 30 countries signed a petition demanding the immediate release of the five Bulgarian medics and Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya. A total of 144 people signed the petition on Friday on the 53rd winter meeting of the Journalists' International Ski Club. Representatives of the media in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the UK, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, Slovenia, Romania, Argentina, Sweden, Russia, Bulgaria and Morocco have put their signatures on the petition. [SNA]
Bulgarians prepared an unprecedented shows of solidarity with five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya ahead of the eighth anniversary of their arrest, AFP reported. Prayers for the five nurses and a Palestinian doctor began Thursday in Sofia's mosque and were to continue Friday with masses at the Alexander Nevski Christian Orthodox cathedral, the Jewish Synagogue and the Catholic, Armenian and Evangelist churches in the capital. Bulgarian students were also planning to march to the Libyan embassy on Friday. [FIA]
Bulgarian Parliament expressed deepest concern and sorrow over the ongoing tragedy (!!) of the Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya, whose imprisonment mark the eighth year, Parliament Speaker Georgi Pirinski said Saturday. Pirinski said the Parliament stresses on speeding up Libyan judicial proceedings and procedures which should take into consideration evidence and proof of innocence of the Bulgarian nurses. [KUNA]
Do you know what these quotes have in common?
Yes, they all failed even to mention the more than 400 infected Libyan children, as if their case is not an ongoing tragedy and as if they do not deserve any support.
I have found an interview done by a female Libyan journalist with some of the victims and their families, I tried to translate extracts of the interview as best as possible, I am not going to translate what the victims think of the Bulgarian & Palestinian medics, I am only translating the parts about the forgotten victims of this tragedy, the journalist is called Zainab Shahin, here is some of what she wrote:

The pen really shakes between my fingers as I try to write words that might help to draw a true picture of the bitter life suffered by children and young people that were sentenced to death just because they went one day to a hospital in Benghazi to get some medical treatment. A death sentence that has nothing like it happen before. What do I write about? I can not find the words to describe a tragedy that befell children, young men & women, families, in fact a whole
community.
Young people that had dreams, ambitions and hopes that died a delayed death. A real tragedy that the world never experienced before.
I sat with them, they told me their feelings, what they want to be done. I decided to put it as it was.
Ali Al-Agouri is the father of a girl called Istabraq, she is infected with the HIV virus, I was shocked when I saw him as he arrived for the interview, he was walking like a dead man, his sadness for his daughter made him loose interest in life, his wife told me that her husband suffers from serious heart conditions and that he needs surgery. I decided to go over to him to avoid him using the stairs, I was confronted with a man that could not even take his breath, holding his walking stick he shook hands with me and said this is what they have done to us, my daughter was injected with the virus that is eating her childhood, I suffered my first heart attack when she was admitted to Intensive Care some time ago, now I suffered my second heart attack, with all of that I do not think about anything except my daughter, his tears started to roll down his face he then asked why is the west ignoring the victims?
Faida Al-Tarhuni is the wife of Ali and the mother of Istabraq, she said: I was admitted to the Benghazi children's hospital with my daughter for 4 days in 1998 to Ward B (Ward B is where the Bulgarian nurses worked) we went there to get medical treatment just to find out that our children have been injected with death. I can not describe to you the shock we felt when we were told that our daughter is one of the infected children.
These are difficult days, on one hand we have the delayed death sentence for our daughter, on the other we suffer from being shunned by our
community, this has happened to all the victims families, as you know the Libyan society is very conservative and did not know this illness, suddenly without any introductions it found itself face to face with this disease, in the beginning we felt like guilty mothers, do you realise the size of this tragedy? after that our children were shunned, in fact there are some uneducated families that removed their children away from our daughter
in case they get infected, my other children suffer too just because their sister is infected, I want to say that the tragedy does not stop at the infected children only but it reaches the families and the society, we can not be quiet about this crime.
Mabrouka Al-
Khatab said: I was admitted to this hospital with my son
Samir for 3 days in Ward B where the Bulgarians and the
Palestinian doctor worked. people like us tasted death, fear and
bitterness, it happens to us every moment with our children, who tried what we suffer from? our loved ones, our friends and our relatives deserted us, I have another child that suffers from psychological problems because of his brother's illness and from waiting for his death.
Her infected son Samir Hamad Issa spoke and said: I hate the medicines, I have been taking them for 9 years non stop, the question that I have is why did they do this to me and the others? I did not commit any offence.
Istabraq Ali Al-Agouri, the little infected girl said: I hate the medicine too, when is this damn thing that is with us all the time going to stop?
I hate the injections, I am always saying to my mother I wish you never took me to the hospital.
Mabrouka (Samir's mother) then said: we thought the whole world was going to stand with the victims but the world ignored our children that were sentenced to death. no crime ever committed was as horrible as this crime that was committed against our children.
Moftah Hassan Ali Hassan was born in 1988, here he tell his painful story: I was admitted to hospital suffering from high temperature, I was injected with the virus, this is my case I am the one that suffers even with all the problems I caused for my family. when we were young children we did not know anything about what happened, now we are adults and know everything, there are 78 of us, men & women waiting for our deaths.
No amount of compensation even if it was billions of pounds would buy me back my health or give me back my body that was injected, I might say that I am happy with my friends and family but when I put my head on the pillow at night I can not describe to you the feeling of fear. They took my future away from me, I was doing very well at primary then secondary school, I left school because I kept thinking that I am going to die. who or what is going to compensate me for that?
Who is going to compensate me for not being like any of Allah's creations? I feel sad, I love football but I could not play it because of my illness.
Hassan Al-Shebly, father of Zainab said: we have been suffering from this tragedy for the past 9 years, there is no crime worse than this crime, prior to the discovery of this mass infection in 1998 Benghazi's Children Hospital did not have a single case of HIV infection. There must be an investigation they must search for information to find out who is behind this tragedy that history has never seen before and will not forget ever.
Wael Ahmed Abusnina said: I am at university, I was born in 1984 i.e I am a grown up man and do realise the tragic situation I am in, medically I am dead as I am infected with a deadly virus, I keep leaving university then come back because I feel there is no point in studying, I am dead.
Psychologically I am destroyed from the inside, I will not keep quiet about my case ever, my life was stolen from me, who will compensate me for that?