What will UN do about Human Rights champions funding terror?

by Shenali Waduge

Q: How can countries let alone the UN solve the problem of terrorism when the nations preaching human rights fund rebels and terrorists and diplomatically embarrass Governments for their inefficiency to curtail terrorism?

A: Terrorism is not meant to be solved, stupid! Wars generate money and 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 and 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 and world leaders are simply watching civilians suffer and civilisation 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 three decades which included Sri Lankan personalities as well.

Having said that with a few remnants of the LTTE still floating around in and 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” channelling 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!

Q: So how legal is it to supply arms to rebels?

A: According to Mrs. Clinton and William Hague under the UN Resolution 1973 it was possible to arm rebels as well as carry out air strikes (authorising no-fly zone).

Under international law and UN resolutions 1970 and 1973 arming rebels/terrorists is illegal. If countries that have “armed” rebels have breached international laws these countries have committed a criminal offence.

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 and ensure peace - which entails the UN to disallow any act of aggression.

UNSC Resolution 1970 paragraph nine specifically prohibits the supply of weapons to LibyA: “Decides that all Member States shall immediately take 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 four 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 nine is revoked or replaced.

Q: What would sovereign nations face if powerful nations decide to continue funding trained rebels to destabilise nations and overthrow elected governments?

A: 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 and 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!

Q: So what are the facts before us?

A: 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 and crimes against humanity committed by American Governments over the past decades?

Wr all know what the US did in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia - US has killed over 6m Southeast Asian citizens and now the US is targeting greater Asia.

We also know that US used chemical weapons “herbicidal warfare”, US dropped 100m pounds of Agent Orange and other herbicides over 4m acres of Vietnamese land resulting eventually in 25m acres of farmland and 12m acres of forest being destroyed. US had also experimented with poison gas and 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 and 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 and 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” and 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 and 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 and 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?

Courtesy: defence.lk