Boys mutilated for 'AIDS cure' undergo surgery

[truthpusher]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6988662/

Boys mutilated for 'AIDS cure' undergo surgery
Doctor in Spain rebuilds genitalia cut off to make potion


ABC / Korpa / Zuma Press
Oscar and Philip, two boys from Kenya, were mutilated as a result of a local belief that a potion made of a virgin child's penis can cure AIDS. The boys, shown here in Valencia, Spain, on Feb. 15, underwent reconstructive surgery with the help of a Spanish surgeon.

Updated: 6:12 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2005MADRID - Two Kenyan boys whose penises were cut off to be sold for making anti-AIDS potions have had them reconstructed in Spain, the doctor treating them said.

The adolescent boys, from a remote region near the border with Uganda, were mutilated after being given drugged food or drink by strangers.

“They had attacked them to cut off their penises to sell ... for making a type of potion which according to a local belief cures AIDS,” Doctor Pedro Cavadas, from the Levante Rehabilitation Center told radio station Cadena Ser.

(snip)

“It seems that the dose of medication that they gave him to knock him out ... was badly calculated, and so he woke up in the middle of the attack,” Cavadas said.

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[Kikosexy2]

1. I'm sorry...

but what it is with Africans and genital mutilation?

[LifeDuringWartime]

3. whats up with americans and genital mutiliation?

n/t

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

2. I cannot stop crying...

but for a little education, or a availability of healthcare or the ending of the global gag rule, these things would not happen.

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. My thoughts exactly...

Why don't we just help Africa? Why? Why Damn it, why. :cry:

[wordslikelead]

5. jesus christ...

How stupid and disgusting! Ugh, the whole "He woke up in the middle of the attack" quote sent chills up and down my spine. This kind of shit can't happen. Education is the only way this kind of thing will stop.

[ima_sinnic]

6. please "god," just let your stupid little "experiment" of Homo sapiens

die out. the species has proved itself to be the biggest boil on the ass of the planet. Where H. sapiens goes, so goes pain, suffering, greed, warfare and cruelty. Even after almost 200,000 years the species has barely evolved from the cave of ignorance.

[INDIA]

7. Right...

I hope we die out too, because all over the world these exact same horrible things are happening. They are not the exception, they are the rule. There are no happy people on planet earth.

Gimme a friggin break drama queen....

[Thurston Howell IV]

8. I believe you will get your wish, soon enough

I don't think we have more than a few hundred years, and that is being blindingly optimistic.

[Thurston Howell IV]

9. This and raping virgins

Gotta admit, they think big when it comes to cures -- the fucking assholes.

[d.l.Green]

10. Don't worry, the drug companies in the US are mutilating children here

in the US in their own way. This is not so much to do with Africa but with the big scary lie known as "hiv/aids" that inspires the medical industry to go against their own code of "do no harm" and pushes some who have been tested "positive" over the edge(more than we know) to suicide.

http://www.nypress.com/18/2/pagetwo/newshole7.cfm