Wouter Bassoon

Wouter Bassoon (called " doctor the mort") South-African Cardiologue is a born the July 6th 1950. He worked for the South-African secret services in the Seventies and Eighties as a chief of bacteriological and chemical program.

He worked for the medical community of the South-African army and was charged to collect information on the chemical and biological experiments of the foreign countries.

Wire of police officer, doctor and scientist, it joined the South-African army. In 1981, he is still the doctor of the president Pieter Botha when he is named chief of the " Project Coast" charged with developing bacterial and chemical weapons and that the staff of the South-African army presented like a “defensive program”.

It recruited more than 200 scientists. It was charged by the Office with civil co-operation (Civil Co-operation Office - CCB) with developing chemical weapons to put out of state to harm of the militants anti Apartheid. The aim of its research did not remain about it less to find a means chemical to dam up the demographic rise to power of the blacks (sterilization of the black women and development of bacterium to make sick these populations). It was thus implied in several attacks and assassinations of militants anti-apartheid. More than one ton of Méthaqualone was thus provided to him by the army. It concota several tens of weapons mortals containing poison like Carbuncle in cigarettes, Botulinium in milk, of the screwdrivers and the poisoned umbrellas or the Paraboxon in the Whiskey.

In 1990, the new president Frederik de Klerk made stop the production of chemical agents and ordered their destruction. Bassoon concentrated then on the production of nonprohibited agents by the government like the Ecstasy and the Mandrax, abundantly sold in the anti-apartheid mediums.

In 1993, the activity of Bassoon is the subject of internal surveys to the administration. The " Project Coast" is then dismantled. On the occasion, many chemical substances disappear from stocks. The expert out of chemical weapons had pushed so far his research which it becomes a reference for his scientific counterparts of the whole world. Between 1993 and 1995, Basson goes also on several occasions in Libya where it is suspecté to have sold chemical and bacteriological secret weapons.

In 1995, the government of Nelson Mandela urges it to work on the " project; Transnet" , a transport company and of infrastructure. He to him is still entrusted secret missions. He is then reinstated like Chirurgie N in the medical unit of the armed forces.

In 1996, the Commission truth and reconciliation starts to inquire into the biological and chemical activity of the units of safety measures.

In 1997, Basson tries to leave South Africa but it is the subject of a monitoring of the the CIA which intervenes with the South-African government. Bassoon is then stopped with Pretoria whereas it has on him broad quantities of ecstasy and confidential official documents.

The commission truth and reconciliation suspecta rather quickly old activities of Bassoon during the Eighties. It is then suspecté to have sold its knowledge in Libya and the Iraq.

The July 31st 1998, Basson appeared before the Commission. He refused to ask the Amnistie.

Its lawsuit began the October 4th 1999 in Pretoria for 67 loads raised against him including drug possession, drug trafficking, fraud, 229 murders and conspiracy of murder, vol. the charge introduced 153 witnesses.

The October 11th 1999, judge Willie Hartzenberg cancelled 6 loads whose those implying the responsibility for Bassoon in the death of 200 people in Namibia with the reason which the South-African government did not have competence to continue crimes committed abroad and which Basson raised of the Namibian law of amnesty of 1989.

At the end of 18 months of lawsuit, the number of loads raised in its opposition was not any more but of 46.

In July 2001, Basson started to present its defense and pled during 40 days. Its argumentation related to the legality of its action and its relationships to the foreign services.

The April 22nd 2002, at the end of thirty months of lawsuit, 46 counts of indictment, 153 witnesses for the prosecution and more than 40.000 document reporting various methods of poisonings and assassinations, the South-African cardiologist is discharged by Hartzenberg judge who grants the amnesty to him. The South-African state appealed before the Supreme court which refused a new lawsuit.

Bassoon then continued to give conferences throughout the world and founded its own doctor's office in the Cape.

In September 2005, the constitutional court judged that Doctor Basson could be rejugé for Crimes against humanity. No legal procedure in this direction however was committed to this end.