From: Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
Joe,
At one time Prof. Wangari Maathai was leading Africa’s charge against the propaganda & distortions around HIV/Aids, arguing without blinking an eyelid that those who manufactured/propagated the virus must be held accountable for the genocide… then she won the Nobel Price for Peace, bowed to the West, and changed overnight and turned round to embrace the monkey business…
See: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1216687.htm
Nobel peace laureate claims HIV deliberately created
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
“Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
“Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet,” Ms Maathai told a press conference in Nairobi a day after winning the prize for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation across Africa.
“It’s true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq,” she said.
“We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare,” said Ms Maathai.
“In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare,” she added.
“Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious,” Ms Maathai said.
Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million across the world infected with HIV, and the vast majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS estimates.
The United States on Friday congratulated Ms Maathai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but tempered its praise over her claims about AIDS.
“She said (HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bio-weapon in some laboratory in the West,” a senior State Department official said.
“We don’t agree with that.”
The official pointed to a report of those comments published in August in Kenya’s daily Standard newspaper, in which Ms Maathai was quoted as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.
–AFP
We have this from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai
Controversy
Controversy arose after the announcement of the Nobel award when it was reported by The Standard that Maathai had claimed HIV/AIDS was “deliberately created by Western scientists to decimate the African population.”[60] Maathai denied making the allegations, but The Standard has stood by its reports.[60]
In a 2004 interview with Time Magazine, in response to questions concerning that report, Maathai replied, “I have no idea who created AIDS and whether it is a biological agent or not. But I do know things like that don’t come from the moon. I have always thought that it is important to tell people the truth, but I guess there is some truth that must not be too exposed,” and when asked what she meant, she continued, “I’m referring to AIDS. I am sure people know where it came from. And I’m quite sure it did not come from the monkeys.”[61]
In response she issued the following statement: “I have warned people against false beliefs and misinformation such as attributing this disease to a curse from God or believing that sleeping with a virgin cures the infection. These prevalent beliefs in my region have led to an upsurge in rape and violence against children. It is within this context, also complicated by the cultural and religious perspective, that I often speak. I have therefore been shocked by the ongoing debate generated by what I am purported to have said. It is therefore critical for me to state that I neither say nor believe that the virus was developed by white people or white powers in order to destroy the African people. Such views are wicked and destructive.[62]