US History

The Very Dark Side of U.S. History

Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys"
spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. It just ain't so.
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As Grim Details Emerge, Guatemalan Victims Seek Justice
for U.S. Medical Experiments in 1940s ----- August 31, 2011

A White House bioethics commission has revealed gruesome new details about venereal disease experiments from
1946 to 1948 in which U.S. medical officials intentionally infected Guatemalan sex workers, prisoners, soldiers and
mental patients with syphilis in order to study the effects of penicillin.

The commission concluded that nearly 5,500 Guatemalans were subjected to diagnostic testing — without their
consent — and more than 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by contact or inoculations. At least 83 died over
the course of the experiments, which were approved by the Guatemalan government. President Obama has apologized
for the program, and Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom has described it as a "crime against humanity" and ordered his
own investigation.

We discuss the commission’s findings with one of its members, Dr. Anita Allen, a professor of law and philosophy at
the University of Pennsylvania Law School. We are also joined by Piper Hendricks, an attorney collaborating with
Guatemalan lawyers on a class action lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who
were unknowingly infected with syphilis.

Since the case was filed in March, one victim has passed away. "This is something that happened many, many years ago,
and people have been waiting for decades to see justice," notes Hendricks. "Time is of the essence to address the
horrifying things that people went through back in the late 1940s."

[includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/31/as_grim_details_emerge_guatemalan_victims

Commentaar van een van de betrokkenen :

And the quote that I found that just really knocked me off the chair was one from the surgeon general himself,
who said—and this is secondhand, but it was in a letter to Cutler, where one of his colleagues said,
"The surgeon general says, 'Well, we couldn't do this in the United States.’" And that’s just a stunning,
absolutely stunning, acknowledgment of what was going on.