Soldiers on Cambodia Mission Brought AIDS to Bulgaria [-These soldiers were having too much fun in Cambodia?]

01 Dec 2010
Standart News (Bulgaria)

Bulgarian soldiers, who took part in the peacekeeping mission in Cambodia in the beginning of the 1990s, brought AIDS to Bulgaria, Major General Stoyan Tonev, chief of the Military Medical Academy told the Darik radio. Bulgaria’s military mission in Cambodia, part of the UN peacekeeping mission, started in 1992 and involved 820 troops, including soldiers from the reserve.

In the battalion under my commandment alone we had seven HIV-positive soldiers, reserve Lieutenant Colonel Yanko Yankov told The Standart. He was a commander of one of the battalions during the first Bulgarian military mission after the beginning of the democratic changes.

December 1, World AIDS Day was marked across Bulgaria.