11 Schoolteachers providing Polio Vaccine attacked by Pakistani Tribal Militants.
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[QUOTE]PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities on Saturday said that 11 schoolteachers who were administering polio vaccines to children in northwest Pakistan had been kidnapped by militants.
“These schoolteachers were sent to Sepah village in the Bara subdivision of Khyber tribal region to provide polio vaccines to the children,” said an official of the administration, Shamsher Khan.
“Some armed militants came there, snatched them their vaccine boxes, held them hostage on gunpoint and taken to an unknown location.”
Pakistani public health and security officials said the teachers were kidnapped on Thursday but authorities only learned of the abduction on Saturday from local tribesmen.
Khan said the schoolteachers were working as volunteers during the polio campaign.
“There has been strong resistance against polio vaccines in this area,” Khan said. “These teachers went there after five years to vaccine children. According to our reports they had finished their job and were about to return when held hostage by the militants.”
He said Mangal Bagh and his fighters opposing polio vaccination for children, fearing it is a Western ploy to render their males infertile.
“They don't allow polio teams to enter their areas of control and vaccinate children," the government official said.[/QUOTE]
Out of all things to declare a western ploy they have to pick Polio vaccines. I don't think the government will be able to do much about this unfortunately.
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Out of all things to declare a western ploy they have to pick Polio vaccines. I don't think the government will be able to do much about this unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
Well, it was a polio vaccine campaign that helped [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/cia-vaccine-ruse-in-pakistan-may-have-harmed-polio-fight.html?_r=0"]alert the US about Osama's whereabouts[/URL], so one can see why they're paranoid.
It's funny how there's an anti-vaccine movement in both middle east and developed west, even if for different reasons.
Sad is that either way, the one who gets shafted are innocent kids.
Are they Pakistani or Western teachers?
[QUOTE=G3rman;42965110]Are they Pakistani or Western teachers?[/QUOTE]
Most likely Pakistani, at least, going by this line in the article.
[QUOTE]He said the teachers were working at the Hira Public School Bara, a public-private school.[/QUOTE]
I wish those asshole militants get Polio and HIV. See how they feel without the vaccines.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42965087]It's funny how there's an anti-vaccine movement in both middle east and developed west, even if for different reasons.[/QUOTE]
It's actually the same reason; people believing the big bad government is trying to poison you.
Polio is almost finished off entirely. If these vaccines dont get out soon, all the work that Rotary International and Bill Gates has done will have been for nothing.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42965362]It's actually the same reason; people believing the big bad government is trying to poison you.[/QUOTE]
Well they have done it before.
I was just reading about the Polio eradication movement in Wired, and one of the biggest obstacles is the Pakistani Taliban, who are stopping the last push from eradicating Polio. Interestingly enough, the Afghan Taliban support Polio vaccination.
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