Thursday, April 28, 2005

Sick Swedish asylum children baffle experts / Reuters AlertNet, 27 Apr 2005

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27706273.htm
Stephen Brown
"Swedish investigators are baffled by a mysterious illness affecting over 400 children of asylum-seekers, mostly from former Soviet and Yugoslav states, who fall into a deep depression and lose the will to live.
The government presented its first study of the so-called 'apathetic children' on Wednesday, after King Carl XVI Gustav added his voice to a chorus of concern from charities, church groups and politicians who want them protected from deportation."