LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

Stop the Genocide in Africa!
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Stop the Genocide in Africa!

Question: There are a significant number of questions about Africa, asking for your overall views as to what in fact can be done immediately. One of them came in from somebody who is responsible for shaping health policy for the World Health Organization. He says:

"Mr. LaRouche, at a recent National Black Legislators conference (see EIR, Jan. 31), I heard your spokeswoman give a presentation on the history of your role in addressing the AIDS epidemic. She spoke about this as an epidemic which was born of economic breakdown, and which was used as an instrument of genocide. The presentation wasn't only shocking, but it was merciless in scoring us for not acting on your warnings and advice. Shortly after she spoke, the ambassador from Botswana presented a situation in his nation that brought me to the edge of despair. It seems to me that there is no way for that country to counter what is inevitable extinction, given its current rate of infection. My fear is that it is not all that different from other places in Africa. Former Congressman Ron Dellums, for whom I have a great deal of respect, presented his view, and I found it to be woefully inadequate. My question to you is: What do we tell Africa? Do we ignore problems like this until your New World Economic Order is in place? Because I could not in good conscience do that. It seems there has to be something that we can do right now. Please tell me your view."

LaRouche: What you're up against is, there are no interim solutions. The policy, as I have stated, is one of genocide against Africa. Now, in the case of the HIV infection, we have a certain experience with this in the United States and in Europe. As of now, we also have growing experience in Asia, in India, and also in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. So we understand some of the controllable features of the problem. In the United States, we have drugs which are administered to people, we have care which seems to control and minimize the problem, without actually addressing a cure or the solution. Well, that's all right. I mean, it's not right to fail, but it's all right that we're doing something, even if it's not enough.

But then, in Africa, the policy is mysterious, because in Botswana, which is one of the better-off areas of Southern Africa, with a fairly higher standard of living, you have the highest rate of HIV. Who's putting something in what?

This other issue is the question of generics, and fake generics. What happens is that you have people who are desperate, who are dying or faced with death. They can't get generics because international financier interests won't allow you to deliver them. I would say, first of all, the United States government could immediately take a policy on generics, to make sure that the United States, with its influence, ensures that everybody who is medically qualified to administer, from any part of the world, will have the assistance of the United States in getting whatever drugs they need to treat their people. That's the minimal standard.

The other thing is: Part of this is environmental. In public health, you have to not only treat the diseases, but you also have to deal with the environmental problem. Now Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, is a mess, especially since the U.S./British asset Museveni, sent troops through a British-protected guerrilla preserve to invade Rwanda, and to start the genocide of Rwanda and Burundi orchestrated from--guess where? Uganda! And the United States now, currently, is engaged in starting another operation against Museveni, which would be a U.S. operation, but the same thing. And this involves stealing on a mass scale: Take Sierra Leone; take diamonds, which are bought by Israelis on the market under a concession. While these conditions are going on, you don't have the environmental conditions either to deliver the necessary drugs, or to do anything environmental to minimize the spread of it. It's out of control.

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