just to commend you for this online resource. i found it very helpful. it has enabled me to research multiple sources under one umbrella.

There is something wrong with the way the justice system works in Zambia. How do you prosecute a theft case of $500,000 for eight years? Justice is not being served in our nation. We just heard of similar cases in UK of British MPs who were abusing parliamentary privileges. Their cases took weeks and those who were found wanting paid back what they took while others resigned their positions. Restitution has been achieved, forgiveness has taken place, and the country is moving forward. We have argued in the past that we should have adopted the South Africaâ??s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) model to address corrupt activities of the Chiluba and Kaunda era. The TRC model would have been swifter, cheaper and would have provided room for reconciliation, restitution, and redemption. The route we took has moved us back to despotism and has exposed little about the alleged crimes. If we had adopted the TRC model, it would have provided for the accused to make full disclosure of all the relevant facts related to the offense for which official pardon was being sought. It would also have provided for ordinary citizens to give testimonies of corrupt activities by the leaders knowing very well that they would be protected by the system. The TRC model would have helped bring healing to a deeply divided nation and would have moved our country forward with honesty and compassion. Lessons from the TRC model would have provided input to the National Constitution Conference on the use of excessive power by leaders.

Charles, first, let me commend you for a good piece. You have tried to bring awareness to a case I believe which everyone ought to be aware of. My feeling is that anyone could have been prosecuted for infecting another with the virus that causes AIDS. But we need to be careful that we don't make it look like only people of African decent are targeted. A precedent has been set quiete well. Now we shall see more of such cases involving an array of nationalities, backgrounds and cultures. It is sending a message that law is rooted in morality not in realism as positists would claim. Society, the Canadian society is particular is going to the beginnings of law and redefining it as it "ought to be" and not "law as law."

Charles, you make the Canadian legal system seem so easy. I like the way you define law as well. Keep it up!!

I am not buying into the idea that HIV/AIDS only relates to people with an African background. However, it seems to me to be a coincidence that the two cited cases involves Ugandans. The case has opened a debate and now remains to see if people of American or European decent will also be prosecuted for "killing" someone with HIV.