Sickening hypocrisy of today's global politics
The Universe
(August 03, 2003)
THE tragic death of Dr David Kelly, the British Government advisor on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq highlights the hypocrisy and the frequent absence of consistent moral values in world affairs.
Every day more innocent people are dying in what is fast becoming an urban guerrilla war. Was it really necessary to go war? Many in Britain were rightly against the war. Who con forget the propaganda campaign by both the United State and the Blair government to persuade the public that there was justification to sacrifice young men and kill thousand of civilians? The excuse was an exaggerated immediate threat to Britain by the so called weapons of mass destruction that, it was claimed, could be launched in 45 minutes.
As I predicated in a previous column, they were unlikely to exist but if they did, the western nation gave them to Iraq. That was the first big sin. They had no right to bring about the death and destruction of any lives and property to undo their terrible mistakes. That was their second sin.
There are many other and means to weaken and bring down a rogue regime. Burma is a suffering nation gripped by military tyrants. Much more has to be weaken their grip and bring true democracy to that troubled nation. The United State has made a positive more recently by imposing new sanction against the military junta. Decades late of course.
North Korea, a nation tottering on the brink of starvation and yet with massive military might, is not a target of the America Caesar, George W. Bush. He knows better now not to provoke violent reaction with jingoistic bravado. Bring them on, he taunted the remnants of Saddam Hussein's followers and now they are launching daily attacks that the US troops can't stop.
Some nation leaders are ready to send in the troops to benefit their political or business careers, but when there is no such benefit, they ignore grievous human suffering. This is the sickening hypocrisy found in world politics today.
There nation are reluctant to use their armed force to save lives and protect the innocent. In Africa today there are wars that could have been prevented if there was a determined, well organised United Nation force with the courage and commitment to stop atrocities.
After the horror and genocide of WWII the world said "Never Again" and proclaimed the Declaration of Human Rights. "Never Again", is quietly forgotten when ethnic cleansing is done by one's ally or there is no nation interest at stake. Saddam gassed the Kurds and the Iranians with Western supplied chemicals while the allies looked the other way.
Rwanda suffered genocide because of indifference of many nation and the UN.
It's a tragic story. The UN sent in a small force of 2,500 to maintain the peace between rival Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. The Hutus secretly trained death squads to kill every Tutsi in the country. The UN commander contacted headquarters in New York for permission to collect the weapons. He was refused it was not politically appropriate to confiscate weapons of multiple destruction. They were scared of retaliation and failure as had happened in Somalia.
As a result, 800,000 unarmed men, women and children were brutally battered, stabbed, shot and burnt to death in 100 days. They murdered more people than even the Nazis could in the time.
(to be continued)
