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What will UN do about Human Rights Champions funding Terror?
(By:
Shenali Waduge)
Question: How can countries let alone the UN solve the
problem of terrorism when the nations preaching human rights fund rebels &
terrorists and diplomatically embarrass Governments for their inefficiency to
curtail terrorism?
Answer: Terrorism is not meant to be solved, stupid! Wars
generate money & opportunity even the undertaker is a happy man! Terrorism
is the perfect tool to exert pressures upon Governments and provides the perfect
cover-up for hidden agendas!
The simple truth is that Terrorists exist because they are
being armed & diplomatically supported to exist. If there had been honest
and genuine unity to stop terrorism, there would be no terrorist movements
existing today. International Humanitarian Laws are used against States that
challenge these terrorists while nothing is done against the Terrorists. All
International Humanitarian Laws were created by humans - therefore there is
nothing stopping these world bodies from ensuring that clauses are in place so
that terrorists are duly punished. All the present definitions in place only
serve to delay punishing terrorists and provide them cover to continue their
terror. There are no good terrorists when their primary objective is only to
kill. There should be better ways to control Governments that do not follow
its manifesto after election than arming terrorists to create total anarchy in a
nation. In allowing terrorists to prevail, World Bodies & World Leaders
are simply watching civilians suffer and civilization perish.
So, when Sri Lanka did the unthinkable it meant Sri Lanka upset
the entire applecart and created a major tsunami for those making merry out of
Sri Lanka's terror for 3 decades which included Sri Lankan personalities as
well. Having said that with a few remnants of the LTTE still floating around in
& beyond Sri Lanka, with its terror financing unit very much alive and
kicking in anger and foreign friends that remain open-mouthed for a possible
resurrection of the LTTE, the possibilities are still open. Of course unlike
Osama we know that Prabakaran is very much dead therefore the only drawback is
to find another as ruthless as Prabakaran.
The hypocrisy of the West from whom we have a set of wonderful
vocabulary filled with revered words like "Human Rights", "accountability",
"freedom", "Liberty".... was revealed when they openly declared that they would
fund REBELS in Libya to oust President Gaddafi. Libya was a sovereign country,
it was a member of the UN, it was a country that did not live on loans....in
fact the UN was to praise Libya for its human rights record just months before
Libya was attacked.
Whatsmore, President Obama had asked Congress to increase US aid
to Gaddafi to $1.7m just ONE MONTH before Gaddafi hounded down. European and
British arms firms supplied Libyan rebels with hundreds of millions of pounds of
military hardware. While the US despite the House of Representatives voting
against funding Libyan rebels went ahead and did just that. The rest of the
charade was carried out by western dominated media who led us to believe a
different version and like Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt...Libya's fall was
inevitable, even US envoy at the UN said that the US had "not ruled out"
channeling arms to rebels. This was announced on the floor of the UN! - the UN
did more than watch the masquerade take place, the ICC charged Gaddafi with
crimes against humanity!
So how legal is it to supply arms to rebels?
According to Mrs. Clinton & William Hague under the UN
Resolution 1973 it was possible to arm rebels as well as carry out air strikes
(authorizing no-fly zone).
Under international law & UN resolutions 1970 & 1973
arming rebels/terrorists is illegal. If countries that have "armed" rebels have
breached international laws these countries have committed a criminal offense.
Therefore the leaders of the US, France & UK are all guilty of committing
war crimes. India should also face the same war crimes for arming the LTTE.
The UN Charter exists to prevent wars & ensure peace - which
entails the UN to disallow any act of aggression.
UNSC Resolution 1970 paragraph 9 specifically prohibits the
supply of weapons to Libya: "Decides that all Member States shall immediately
take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or
transfer to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, from or through their territories or by
their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related
materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and
equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, and
technical assistance, training, financial or other assistance, related to
military activities or the provision, maintenance or use of any arms and related
materiel, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel whether or not
originating in their territories,..." UNSC Resolution 1973 (2011)
By using Paragraph 4 of the UNSC Resolution stating countries
could use "all necessary measures" to protect civilians does not qualify any
nation to arm rebels. The key word is "nonwithstanding" does not mean
"substituting'. Nowhere is it stated that Paragraph 9 is revoked or replaced.
What would sovereign nations face if powerful nations decide
to continue funding trained rebels to destabilize nations and overthrow elected
governments?
Are we to expect anarchy in all the countries of the world
simply because a few nations are greedy to grab the wealth of these nations and
profit from their geographical locations?
Today, the rebels have no control over themselves even &
with the massive amount of arms made available to them one can only imagine the
situation in Libya. The West sleeps happy having struck oil!
So what are the facts before us?
Do we need to repeat that the US has infiltrated, invaded,
bombed & destroyed more countries than any other nation to further the
economic interests of a handful of greedy American corporates?
Do we need to repeat that the US is the only nation to use the
ultimate weapon of mass destruction - the atomic bomb (used twice).
Do we need to remind that the US uses chemical weapons? So what
has been the accountability record of the US? And is the UN even monitoring the
colossal amount of war crimes & crimes against humanity committed by
American Governments over the past decades?
We all know what the US did in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia - US
has killed over 6m Southeast Asian citizens & now the US is targeting
greater Asia. We also know that US used chemical weapons "herbicidal
warfare", US dropped 100m pounds of Agent Orange & other herbicides over 4m
acres of Vietnamese land resulting eventually in 25m acres of farmland & 12m
acres of forest being destroyed. US had also experimented with poison gas &
other toxics even so far as going to use influenza to cripple a village. We all
have read about napalm been dropped in Vietnam another instance of chemical
warfare. Even the Venezuelan President Chavez made a recent remark that the US
could be responsible for Latin American leaders suffering from cancers!
Similarly, Vietnamese suffered birth defects, multiple miscarriages - the same
is happening in Iraq & Afghanistan. "If they turn on their radars we're
going to blow up their goddamn SAMs [surface-to-air missiles]. They know we own
their country. We own their airspace.... We dictated the way they live and talk.
And that's what's great about America right now. Its a good thing, especially
when there's a lot of oil out there we need" - U.S. Brigadier General
William Looney, a director of the continued U.S. bombing campaign of Iraq.
So what really is this going after the terrorist motto? Does it
mean anything at all? How can countries solve terrorism when the countries
that calls to end terrorism actually helps terrorists to exist? What better
example than the Osama-Bush connections! How many of us know how connected the
Bush-Osama family really were! Can we really believe he is dead?
The CIA trained & funded the Nicaraguan contras - Ronald
Reagan called them "freedom fighters". The US runs the School of the Americas
(SOA) in Georgia. It trained many who were either dictators or leaders of
puppet-regimes. If US did not feel ashamed of its conduct in Vietnam it carried
out the exact replica in Guatemala. More than 200,000 Guatemalans died as a
result. What happened to Noriega was similar to that experienced by Husni
Mubarak. Both former "friends of the US" Panama's Noriega soon became a "brutal
dictator" & Mubarak of Egypt suffered the same fate.
There are countless more examples of intelligence units carrying
out acts far beyond the terror acts by terrorists. Indian intelligence was
responsible for arming, training & supporting the LTTE. It would take
volumes to highlight the other powerful nations that have been involved in
similar activities. So what has the UN/UNHRC/ICC done against these countries?
We simply cannot have a fabricated quest to end terrorism while powerful
nations create, support, arm & diplomatically protect terrorists.
What good is the UN & its entities if they can only watch
innocent people die? Why did these entities allow the US to use the excuse
of 9/11 to avenge the killing of US citizens by killing thousands of innocent
civilians in foreign countries? By watching killing of innocent people the
UN/UNHRC has done far more damage than even terrorists & their terror
acts.
During the Cold War the excuse was the "War on Communism" now
the excuse is "War on Terrorism" and the UN/UNHRC & ICC simply watches the
US & NATO allies carry out assassinations abroad, train proxy armies, fund
dictators, run secret terror cells and boldly intervene militarily to destroy
nations & their infrastructure completely.
Are we not watching our planet being ruined by a set of greedy,
selfish, sadistic inhumans who do not have any affinity towards a country, to
its people or even care too hoots to protect civilization for future progeny?
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