Government vaccinations at gunpoint reported

Bill Gates

More than 100 children from Malawi's southern district of Nsanje have been forced at gunpoint to receive measles vaccinations, according to a report from the southern African nation.

And the partner in the forced medication program? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to Natural News.

Two separate press reports say that the parents took the children into neighboring Mozambique to avoid Malawi's announced mandatory measles vaccination program for various religious reasons. However, when the families returned home to Malawi, they found the medical providers and police had waited for them and the children were forced to receive the vaccines.

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The Malawi Voice report said the parents and children belonged to the Zion and Atumwe churches and believed it was a violation of their religious principles to receive the shots.

According to The Voice report, District Health Officer Medison Matchaya made sure the medics giving the shots had a police escort.

"We were alerted that some children who were hiding in Mozambique were back in the country and we asked police to escort the health officials in order to vaccinate them and we have managed to vaccinate about 131 children," Matchaya said in the report.

A Ministry of Health spokesman, who declined to be identified, however, said he doubted the report.

"We provide policy for implementation of things like we make the vaccines available for the people, for them to take freely. Also, we give guidelines because the vaccines are given on the district level," the Health Ministry spokesman said.

"I need to get evidence that that thing really happened," the spokesman said.

A second Ministry of Health spokesman who only identified himself as Dr. Storn made the same claims about Malawian Health Ministry policy.

"As a ministry, we make the vaccines available to the people, and then the people are free to take the vaccinations whenever they want to. So our policy is to decide which vaccines we're going to give," Storn said.

"Then the vaccines are transported to the district. Then the districts give assistance to the people. It is not our policy that we give vaccinations at gunpoint as far as I know," Storn added.

Melinda Gates has said she welcomes the help of the Malawian authorities and the government's establishment of a network of "health surveillance assistants" who aid in the task.

According to the video posted at the Gates Foundation website, Melinda Gates welcomes the assistants who "spend three weeks out in the villages, providing basic vaccinations. They make sure the vaccinations happen not just at the village level, but all the way back through the system."

Eleven thousand Health Surveillance Assistants were appointed in Malawi, according to a UNICEF 2008 report.

The "health surveillance assistants" and phrases such as "It is not our policy that we give vaccinations at gunpoint as far as I know" raise concern from globalism analyst and Worldview Weekend President Brannon Howse.

Howse says he sees more than the strong arm of the state in the reports. He sees a further erosion of parental authority.

"This is very troubling on many levels and for many reasons. I believe the globalists have every desire to destroy parental authority and they will do so in the name of 'helping children,'" Howse stated.

"The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child is one such example. This is not about children's rights but the desire of the United Nations to raise your children," Howse added.

Regarding what he believes are the totalitarian tactics of the Gates Foundation aided by Malawian authorities, he brought up images of past totalitarian regimes.

"Hitler also spoke of how the 'state' owned the German children," Howse said.

Howse's concerns about the U.N.'s involvement in the project are verified by a U.N. report that says the Gates Foundation has committed its resources to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A U.N. website explains that UNICEF is the U.N. agency that is charged with implementing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. Page 11 of a UNICEF report states that the Gates Foundation is deeply committed to the program.

"These initiatives often have a strong element of cooperation between the private and public sectors, which opens up new opportunities for both research and investment," the report says.

"Some of the most striking contributions have been in health. The world's largest private foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been a major contributor to the GAVI Alliance," the report also states.

The report says that the GAVI Alliance is the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, a non-governmental organization working with the U.N. to fulfill the objectives of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The U.N., UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have not responded to WND's requests for comment.

But WND earlier reported when Gates discussed the concept that cell-phone technology could be used to register every birth around the globe and track children to make sure they have been vaccinated, as government advisers urge.

That was the subject of his talk at a mHealth Summit, which delved into the issues of technology and health.

WND also reported when Gates commented at the Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, Calif., on the world's population.

He said, "Let's take a look. First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."