To: President Donald Trump, The California State House, The California State Senate, Governor Gavin Newsom, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
US MEDICAL EXPERIMENT in Guatemala
US MEDICAL EXPERIMENT in Guatemala
Stand against the appeal to not compensate Guatemala people, who have been injected with Syphilis in an undisclosed US experimentation in the late 1940's to test penicillin. These people have been dealing with life long illnesses and have lived in poverty.
Today the US has an opportunity to take responsibility and restore the dignity of this people and help them to carry on knowing there is justice.
The targeted population was among prisoners, orphans, conscripted soldiers and psychiatric patients. People who for a reason or another would be more vulnerable to abuse and seen as less than others. SHAME! They were treated like animals whose lives didn't matter.They have never been told what they were receiving. One thousand and three hundred were injected with sexually transmitted diseases without disclosing the nature of the experimentation and what was injected in their body.
President Obama apologized when the experiment surfaced in 2010, but in June a judge dismissed the lawsuit that could help these people and their families to be compensated and given some resources. Using sovereignty of immunity, 70 years later the court is saying that they can't be sued because it took place on foreign soil. The decision that US was hiding, seventy years later It's paying off!, they're off the hook! It is also said that the experimentation lasted far longer than acknowledged. Some were still injected multiple times in psychiatric hospital between 1966 and 1979 and still bare the scars. Of course there are no records of experiments after 1953, but till this day they are baring the physical and emotional scars of a life long of suffering.
Us, the people, we will not rely on government decisions and do what it take to restore the dignity
of all people. The human spirit will prevail and the beauty of the earth restored for everyone to enjoy. Please forward it.
(refer to Al Jeezera news, 8/19/12)
Why is this important?
Respond to the appeal rejected by the US court, on the premisses that it happened on foreign soil. Ask the criminal justice and civil rights to inter win.
Stand to restore the dignity of Guatemala people so that they can and their families be compensated for dealing with life long illnesses, physical and emotional scars and poverty, after US experiments starting in the late 1940's until the 1970.
Stand for the human rights that NEVER Again, similar abuse happen.
The most vulnerable were chosen for this experiment, orphans, conscripted soldiers and psychiatric patients.
Unknown of them, like animals, they were injected with syphilis and other transmitted diseases in order to test penicillin efficiency. Please forward so that we can create a world for all people to enjoy.