White Man's Hypocrisy again
LETTER TO EDITOR CEYLON DAILY NEWS
Human rights are universal. Hence it was fair for Mr. Chilcott to speak on this topic as the Representative of the British government that invaded (errr rushed into ) Iraq on false pretenses, and exaggerated and doctored intelligence and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
In fact it is fair for anyone from any part of the world including the Government of Sri Lanka to be concerned about human rights abuses any place in the world. Here are some issues that the Government and people of SL should raise with the British and American governments. Abuses of this magnitude are wrong no matter when and where it occurs.
1. Five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to Iraqil Health Ministry statistics.
2. During the month of June, 453 unidentified corpses, some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad, according to morgue data provided by Iraqis. In January, 321 corpses were discovered in the capital, a total that fell steadily until April but then rose sharply after the "Surge" started.
3. Secret Torture camps in Poland and Romania.
4. Suspension of Habeas corpus on the basis of Extraordinary rendition of anyone who can be deemed to be an "Enemy Combatant" without any material proof.
5 . Torture at Abu Graib; and the continuous abuses at Guantanamo despite calls from eminent American patriots such as Lt. Gen Colin Powell and Senator John McCain to shut it down .
6. Attacks and harassment of innocent Moslems in England following the July 2005 bombs and the three failed bombs this week. Includes racist attacks where people's veils were ripped off and Mosques threatened.
7. Expanded search and seizure laws in Britain this week.
8. 1.8 Million, (nearly two million) refugees who have fled to Jordan and Syria; this is a tremendous hardships to those countries and their economies. These refugees are a direct result of the unstable conditions and fratricidal violence unleashed as a direct product of their invasion of a sovereign nation.
9. Instead of spreading democracy in the world's most unstable region (one of the key arguments for the invasion given by Blairists and Bushites neoconservatives), their invasion has give rise to a dangerous expansion of radical Islamic extremism; this is fueling and feeding the evil machinations of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
10. More and more regimes are moving towards more autocratic rule. The Iraqi invasion is a failure.
11. According to the reputed and respected British Medical Journal (peer reviewed) nearly 650,00 Iraqis may have died since March 2003. Their second survey published on 11 October 2006, estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006.
12. Those disputing that number still say an average of 30,000 Iraqis have died every year since the US and British forces(and the motely crew of support players forming a bogus "coalition") invaded Iraqi. At this rate it would be queer if the number of innocent Iraqis killed will be greater than those killed by the murderous secular tyrant Saddam's brutal regime (that they both deemed fit to support when he was fighting Iran) during his rule. By their own admission US and British military authorities say they only keep track of their dead and wounded and dont count or consider Iraqi civilian dead. Doesn't this fly in the face of their attempts to "liberate" these hapless people?
I wonder if HC Chilcott, and Ambassador Blake Edwards are free to give rational logical responses instead of just barking at the behest of their State Departments. Oh wait, I forgot they cannot speak freely because they represent their governments, and must follow the party line even if that flies in the face of facts and data presented. Have our western funded NGOs raised these questions at their annual funding meetings?
Or are the rules such that White men from great White Powers can berate and preach to third world nations fighting terrorism but don't practice what they preach?
Human rights are universal. Hence it was fair for Mr. Chilcott to speak on this topic as the Representative of the British government that invaded (errr rushed into ) Iraq on false pretenses, and exaggerated and doctored intelligence and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
In fact it is fair for anyone from any part of the world including the Government of Sri Lanka to be concerned about human rights abuses any place in the world. Here are some issues that the Government and people of SL should raise with the British and American governments. Abuses of this magnitude are wrong no matter when and where it occurs.
1. Five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to Iraqil Health Ministry statistics.
2. During the month of June, 453 unidentified corpses, some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad, according to morgue data provided by Iraqis. In January, 321 corpses were discovered in the capital, a total that fell steadily until April but then rose sharply after the "Surge" started.
3. Secret Torture camps in Poland and Romania.
4. Suspension of Habeas corpus on the basis of Extraordinary rendition of anyone who can be deemed to be an "Enemy Combatant" without any material proof.
5 . Torture at Abu Graib; and the continuous abuses at Guantanamo despite calls from eminent American patriots such as Lt. Gen Colin Powell and Senator John McCain to shut it down .
6. Attacks and harassment of innocent Moslems in England following the July 2005 bombs and the three failed bombs this week. Includes racist attacks where people's veils were ripped off and Mosques threatened.
7. Expanded search and seizure laws in Britain this week.
8. 1.8 Million, (nearly two million) refugees who have fled to Jordan and Syria; this is a tremendous hardships to those countries and their economies. These refugees are a direct result of the unstable conditions and fratricidal violence unleashed as a direct product of their invasion of a sovereign nation.
9. Instead of spreading democracy in the world's most unstable region (one of the key arguments for the invasion given by Blairists and Bushites neoconservatives), their invasion has give rise to a dangerous expansion of radical Islamic extremism; this is fueling and feeding the evil machinations of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
10. More and more regimes are moving towards more autocratic rule. The Iraqi invasion is a failure.
11. According to the reputed and respected British Medical Journal (peer reviewed) nearly 650,00 Iraqis may have died since March 2003. Their second survey published on 11 October 2006, estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006.
12. Those disputing that number still say an average of 30,000 Iraqis have died every year since the US and British forces(and the motely crew of support players forming a bogus "coalition") invaded Iraqi. At this rate it would be queer if the number of innocent Iraqis killed will be greater than those killed by the murderous secular tyrant Saddam's brutal regime (that they both deemed fit to support when he was fighting Iran) during his rule. By their own admission US and British military authorities say they only keep track of their dead and wounded and dont count or consider Iraqi civilian dead. Doesn't this fly in the face of their attempts to "liberate" these hapless people?
I wonder if HC Chilcott, and Ambassador Blake Edwards are free to give rational logical responses instead of just barking at the behest of their State Departments. Oh wait, I forgot they cannot speak freely because they represent their governments, and must follow the party line even if that flies in the face of facts and data presented. Have our western funded NGOs raised these questions at their annual funding meetings?
Or are the rules such that White men from great White Powers can berate and preach to third world nations fighting terrorism but don't practice what they preach?
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