US, UK, EU and UN are a bunch of liars using office to push military interventions
Posted on January 10th, 2014
Shenali D Waduge
The ‘civilized’ world is shamelessly showing us how uncivilized it is by the extent of hypocrisies they commit and the lies they tell without even batting an eyelid. To cap it off they think they are God’s gift to mankind and doing the world a favour. Their lies have led to millions of people either dead, displaced, without the likelihood of ever returning to their homes, sick with ailments that have no cure, fertile grounds made infertile and now they are even targeting their own citizens back home. The world needs to finally wake up and say enough is enough. The immoral levels that these lies are being formulated, framed and executed in a bid to reign supreme over nations and people by a handful must now stop. National Governments and their leaders are forced to run with the hounds but are earmarked to be hunted in the end. It is not that national Governments have not been warned but by courting these nations they innocently thought they would be let off the hook now with Rapp in town the gameplan is all too clear but Sri Lanka has been fooled to signing off investments that would next target the nation and its people starting with the leaders.
Their mantras across international media are the prostituted words of ‘credible’ ‘accountable’ ‘transparent’ but none of their crimes ever gets near even a local court. They have found their illicit partners in handfuls of local traitors ever ready to hand over the nation and commit an entire populace to either foreign invasion or foreign interference – a thin line separates the two. Sections of the minority/majority are clueless of what happens to countries that are militarily invaded or run by puppet governments, the pockets of locals which include religious entities paid to lie by foreign organizations are taking Sri Lanka on a dangerous road that would lead Sri Lanka to a scenario no different to the sufferings of the people in Kosovo, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti, East Timor. The puppets that the US/UK and others handled in nations eventually were all eliminated because they were witnesses to their lies. Those that think that by aligning with these treacherous Western nations ‘belong’ to their inner circles are daydreaming. They will be paid for their role and then kicked out thereafter. People are just used so long as they can deliver.
Sri Lanka’s is being held accountable for defeating TERRORISTS (defined by they themselves).
Sri Lanka’s statistics/arguments/facts presented have landed up only in the waste paper basket without a single line read because the plan of the US, UK, EU and UN cares not whether we killed terrorists, did not kill civilians or whatever they are putting on the table as allegations or accusations. These are all sham coverups that have been time-tested to frame charges and these nations with their corrupt officials are now veterans at framing charges. They don’t need to even visit the places, view the analysis, go through the forensics – just like the doctor paid by C4 who looks at a picture and says the Sri Lankan Armed Forces killed the person lying on the floor. They have already derived at their conclusions – the visits are just a mockery to rub salt into the already wounded nation.
Yet we are stupid enough to grant them VIP entrance, garland them with flowers, provide whatever comforts they want when all they are ordered to do from wherever they come from is to pick up bits and pieces that would take Sri Lanka to the gallows. Rapp is doing just that meeting Church leaders who were part of LTTE, meeting people who were very much LTTE, going to graveyards, hospitals and do not be surprised that the same lies used in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya will also be used in Sri Lanka…. Rajappu Joseph has set the ball rolling with the allegation of cluster bombs being used, 15 ex-combatants were spoken to in a case of terrorists taking a democratic government to court.
Just for the records, for the people who are brainwashed into thinking that these foreign delegates, their visits, their reports are a work of honest and credible investigations these lies should put to rest the level of perversity these officials representing these bully nations and the UN have gone to by using the media which they own to spread lies and completely humiliate nations. Now these very entities are turning their guns on their own citizens and a closer look at the new laws, regulations, cameras, spying scandals, even firing honest military personnel and drugging the rest as well as poisoning the citizens with chemicals will show.
The LIES of the US, UK, EU and UN
LIES that led to Invasion and Occupation of IRAQ
- Accusing Iraq of 9/11
- Accusing Iraq of links with Al Qaeda (Al Qaeda is created by US, Osama was created by US)
- Accusing Iraq of seeking uranium for nuclear programs
- Accusing Iraq of importing aluminium tubes to develop nuclear weapons
- Accusing Iraq of possessing WMDs
- Accusing Saddam of developing smallpox (Colin Powell even lied to the UN Security Council)
- UN weapons inspector Hans Blix saying Iraq had 10,000 litres of anthrax (UK MP Jack Straw) – UN conducted 400 inspections over 300 sites (these were not for WMDs – the officers were no weapons inspectors but secret service agents)
These lies led to :
- 29,200 bombs and missiles in the 1st month killing tens of thousands of civilians
- 650,000 Iraqis had died by 2006 (Epidemiologists) that figure is said to have reached 1million by 2008 (were these all insurgents? No they were Iraqi civilians and Iraqi children)
- Brainwashing US troops into linking Iraq with 9/11 in order to take revenge on Iraq
- US rules of engagement were ‘360 degree rotational fire’ on streets packed with civilians
- Systematic torture in US prisons included excruciating, deadly forms of hanging; extreme heat and cold; sleep deprivation; starvation and thirst; withholding medical treatment; electric shocks; rape and sodomy; beatings with all kinds of weapons; burning; cutting with knives; injurious use of flexi-cuffs; suffocation; sensory assault and/or deprivation; and psychological torture such as sexual humiliation and threats against family members.
- Article 54 of the Geneva Convention prohibits attacks on “drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works.” – US and NATO did exactly this. They destroyed Iraq’s drinking water and sanitation facilities because US knew that sanctions would prevent Iraq from rebuilding and epidemics would lead to death.
AGGRESSION was called the ‘SUPREME INTERNATIONAL CRIME’ and US, UK, EU and all other NATO nations should stand trial adapting the Nuremberg Laws for their crimes.
Is it not an AGGRESSION to falsely invade, occupy and kill the citizens of the countries that have been invaded?
The Iraq Inquiry in the U.K. has declassified documents showing that Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw were warned consistently and repeatedly that invading Iraq would be a crime of aggression, which their legal advisers called “one of the most serious offenses under international law.”
If the UN Charter expressly prohibited the use of military force by any country against another. That prohibition has not been repealed AGGRESSION still remains a CRIME so what is the UN doing about the DRONE strikes which are acts of aggression on countries that have not declared any threat to the US.
If anyone has doubts about America’s Crimes Against Humanity just read Nick Turse’s book, Kill Anything That Moves, that documents America’s SYSTEMATIC slaughter in Vietnam where the orders were to ‘kill everything and anything that moved’. President Nixon promised to pay $3.3billion in reparation – that has been completely forgotten and not a cent has been paid to Vietnam.
Panama’s leader General Manuel Noriega was a CIA asset since 1960s. Then US decided to bring ‘democracy’ and defend ‘human rights’ to Panama using 27,000 US troops and invaded it in 1989. Noriega was released from US prison in 2007, was extradited to France, he was returned to Panama in 2011 where he remains in prison.
“From the 1940s to the 1990s the United States used various parts of Panama as a testing ground for chemical weapons, including mustard gas, VX, sarin, hydrogen cyanide and other nerve agents in … mines, rockets and shells; perhaps tens of thousands of chemical munitions.” (William Blum: Rogue State, 2002.)
Lies on Yugoslavia:
The lie to liberate Kosovo with false civilian deaths was to tap into the 10 trillion worth of “inexhaustible” minerals in the Trebca mines. Kosovo’s mines containing 77,302,000 tons of coal, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, gold, silver, marble, manganese, iron ore, asbestos and limestone “to name a few” all went to private foreign groups.
Kosovo ‘liberation’ took 87 days of non-stop bombardment that systematically destroyed communications centres, fuel depots, airports, traffic communications, trains, markets and even the Chinese Embassy (NATO claimed it had the wrong map), the media centre was destroyed killing journalists inside.
US State Dept also lied alleging that the Yugoslav army had two kinds of poisonous gasses while US and NATO had been training the Kosovo Liberation Army for years and the world false told it was a ‘civil war’.
Lies on Libya
Libya under Gaddafi became the top of the Human Development Index for Africa but US/NATO alleged his people wanted to be liberated from Gaddafi.
There was NOT one rape committed by Gaddafi forces – the Viagra mass rape stories were all lies
Libyan fleeing homes were all fabrications
10,000 deaths in Benghazi by Gaddafi forces were lies
No rapes, no African mercenaries, no helicopter gun ships or bombers, and only 110 ten deaths prior to the launch of the NATO bombing campaign. According to the Libyan Red Crescent Society, over 1,100 civilians have been killed by NATO bombs including over 400 women and children. Over 6,000 Libyan civilians have been injured or wounded by the bombing.
Gaddafi foolishly thought he could win the West’s approval thereby losing his friends Russia and China.
Lies on Afghanistan
Afghanistan is where US now makes its profits through drugs!
The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was planned long before 9/11 and minerals and gas pipeline is why the US/NATO forces are stationed there.
The LIARS have broken EVERY LAW in the Book
The UN Charter
- The Charter specifically prohibits the use of force to topple foreign governments.
- All national and international laws forbid the killing of non-combatants (i.e. arguably all Afghanis)
- In 17 December 1984 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution “that all States take no actions aimed at military intervention and occupation, forcible change in or undermining of the socio-political system of States, destabilization and overthrow of the their Governments and, in particular, initiate no military action to that end under any pretext whatsoever and cease forthwith any such action already in progress.”
- “The Charter is based on the belief that international law should not be enforced at the expense of international peace.”
- Article 52 of the UN Charter restricts regional agencies, including NATO, to activities consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. So the NATO resolutions cannot override the provision of the UN Charter.
The US Bombing Qualifies As Terrorism
The Convention to Suppress Terrorist Bombings (58 signatories, 29 parties) has been signed and ratified by the UK. Canada and the US have signed, 12 January 1998 and have not ratified. The Convention to Suppress Terrorist Bombings defines in Article 24 a terrorist bomber as a person who:
“…unlawfully and intentionally delivers, places, discharges or detonates a bomb, explosive, lethal or incendiary device in, into or against a place of public use, a state or government facility, a public transportation system or an infrastructure facility with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury or the destruction of such a place resulting in major economic loss.”
This definition would appear to include the person(s) bombing Afghanistan. The US led attacks on Afghanistan highlight one of the critical reasons for defining terrorism; to preclude the use of war to combat terrorism.
The International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (25 February 2000) by Article 2 makes it an offence to directly or indirectly provide funds to be used to carry out:
“…any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a Government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”
Every time US/NATO kills civilians it is brushed aside as ‘collateral damage’ however the law is The Law: Cannot Use Weapons That Hit Civilians By Mistake.
The various laws forbid “excessive force.” What is “excessive force”? In its Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or use of Nuclear Weapons (1996), the International Court of Justice held in paragraph 78: “States must never make civilians the object of attack and consequently never use weapons that are incapable of distinguishing between civilian and military targets.”
NATO Law Cannot Be Used To Go Beyond UN Law
Articles 5 and 6 of NATO’s “Washington Treaty” are more war-friendly, They allow for a vague interpretation of an enemy, and allow other nations to join in. However, article 52 of the UN Charter restricts regional agencies, including NATO, to activities consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. So the NATO resolutions cannot override the provision of the UN Charter.
There is little point in telling these LIARS what the Government has been doing during the conflict or even after. They have a plan just like all their plans to invade/occupy nations through a new concept called R2P and they are well on track. The visits of foreign delegates, UN officials are just smokescreens and the handful of pat on our backs are just to keep the country fooled until they go in for the kill. We have fall lock, stock and barrel for these lies without using our time at these international forums to question the duplicity, the lies and the hypocrisies. Why have we not asked US/UK, EU and UN about their crimes against humanity over centuries and the crimes that are being committed without any regret or remorse in knowing that they are planning to kill, maim, injure and totally ruin nations and their people simply to amass wealth.
These entities may have fooled the Government but the people of Sri Lanka are not fooled. The leaders must now wonder whether they are walking into the same traps that Saddam, Noriega, Gaddafi fell in TRUSTING these LIARS.
Karmic justice must prevail for these liars and all those locals who are party to their lies and hypocrisies.
January 10th, 2014 at 3:59 am
10/01/14 – Lankaweb – Thank you Shenali, how very true….But we need to turn the camera on ourselves -(GoSL) as well and improve our response to our accusers, if we expect to succeed. Yes, we have been successful militarily in defeating the LTTE. But as a state we have been utterly incompetent so far in taking or even attempting to take ANY legal action even nominally via the avenues available against the fraudulent charges made against the nation by the countries you have named. And there are no signs of a credible preparation fo the defence of the Nation at the forthcoming UNHRC sessions either. As examples we have done nothing, not even a FORMAL complaint so far to CH4; No action on Adele Balasingham for HR violations; No action on Gordon Weiss for highly exaggerated casualty numbers now repeatedly quoted by every Dick, Tom and Harriet; No action on the LTTE activities by the countries you have quoted; No complaint on the biased UN’s Navi Pillai on ‘Conflict of Interests’ etc; etc to name a few. So you see, there is indeed a lot to be done by the GoSL and the ‘ball is in our Court’. Action please GoSL! – S de Silva – London
January 10th, 2014 at 5:30 am
Sri Lanka has no option but to demand that the investigation demanded by these hostile Western forces, should be extended to the entire 30 year period and include the role played by India in training and funding a terrorist movement in a neighbouring nation and also the crimes committed by their IPKF force as well as forcing Sri Lanka to agree to a detrimental 13th amendment to its constitution. Do not be fooled by India claiming to be a friend and let India off the hook.
January 10th, 2014 at 4:03 pm
“As examples we have done nothing, not even a FORMAL complaint so far to CH4; No action on Adele Balasingham for HR violations; No action on Gordon Weiss for highly exaggerated casualty numbers now repeatedly quoted by every Dick, Tom and Harriet; No action on the LTTE activities by the countries you have quoted; No complaint on the biased UN’s Navi Pillai on ‘Conflict of Interests’ etc; etc to name a few.”
GOSL listens to the Catholic Church and acts accordingly. So no action against any of those organisations or persons. S de Silva is dead right. The heroic people of Sri Lanka who outsmarted and vanquished the LTTE are being systematically failed by their own elected government for it is in bed with the Church and follows its dictates. Soon the Head of Pedophyllic Church – The Pope will be in Sri Lanka to be feted at cost to Majority Buddhists of Sri Lanka. Every occasion this person visits a country that country is impoverished to the tune of millions.
Sri Lanka should have levelled terrorism charges against the TNA in the first place for their role in promoting terrorism in Sri Lanka. Now they have banded together with the Tamil Diaspora and the Christian West to criminalise and demonise Sri Lanka and the Ranaviruwoes.
Those who paid with their lives so that Sri Lanka may live on must be turning in their graves seeing where the hard won victory over Tamil Tiger Christian Terrorism, is heading!
January 10th, 2014 at 4:21 pm
It is amazing the amount of hot air that makes up what is considered “power” from these Western nations. Lets make it clear, it is not the entire Western hemisphere but just a select number of western nations. Take for example the UK who created the world’s largest Empire since the dawn of civilization. In addition it was a Christian Empire that forced Christian values upon her non Christian subjects. When this Empire ended Great Britain came up with new idea to keep the Empire in a pseudo post Empire state by creating the commonwealth of nations or the new nations that emerged from that British Empire.
One of the biggest crimes the British did against these former non European nations of the British Empire was to rewrite our histories based on the accumulated centuries of bigotry, racism and the belief of the “White man’s burden”. Most of the world took their lessons from the British history books written by British authors which highlighted the worst aspects of the non white parts of the British Empire. Paganism, the Caste system, Suttee, Thuggee, and the entrenched poverty created by them but never admitted by them leaving the reader such as the US with the same belief that these non European cultures are inferior at best and debased at worst. This allowed the sense of imperialism to be exported to other European nations. Add to that their own twist in history where the Hindu word Arya was manipulated to mean an Aryan race which by the nature of the people including light skin color, blond hair and many shades of eye color was the result of evolution which created the “noble and superior” race.
When Cho En Lai who was the Prime Minster of China under Mao was asked about the 17th century French revolution and its effects on history in the 1950s his answer was ‘it is too early to tell”. If that is the case regarding a bloody revolution that did away with the French Royal class then wouldn’t it be also true that such a massive game changing Empire like the British Empire where the results of it would continue to shape the world for decades if not centuries?
Even the Sri Lankan civil war as aspects of it that go back to the British Empire when the British upset the ethnic balance of Sri Lanka by importing Indian Tamils and domestically by placing Tamils in high positions while keeping the majority Sinhalese from achieving these positions. What the British did to India was a nightmare no modern nation should face. Then to give it that final touch the British rewrite history based on their bigotry to perpetuate this stereo type. But when it came to the European holdings of the British Empire such as Australia and Canada the British poured rivers of ink praising their fellow brotheren. One mus always keep in mind that the people of the sub continent were called niggers long before it was applied to the American blacks. Yes we were nothing but niggers to the British Empire.
Under such malevolence it is not surprising that most of the West got their racist bigotry against the sub continent from the British and the stench of that bigotry is alive and well when the white man comes marching into Sri Lanka as if it is his plantation to dictate and accuse.
It is equally amazing what a small nation can do to thwart such blatant and raw bigotry, Iran simply threw them out and went on to do what she pleases. Crippling sanctions were applied, and holier than thou speeches were done but no Western leader even dared enter Iran with a sense of superiority to accuse Iran of anything This holds true of North Korea and many Muslim nations.
If one looks at the 20th century history it was the Muslim faith that lashed back at the west in the most brutal manner, using terrorism on a global scale to keep the Western bigots at home and not intrude into their affairs and even after much suffering the Western nations have lost. Now it is time for the rest of the non European nations to take back their dignity and treat the western man as no more than any other human and not give them any special privileges to judge, or even dictate the domestic policies of Sri Lanka anymore.
As I have stated before it maybe time to temporarily shut down their embassies. Not all but just a couple and that being the US and the UK. Once that is done they will have no access to be on Sri Lankan soil and the message sent by closing down their embassies would be a bold statement to other Western powers who want to play the imperialist role.
January 10th, 2014 at 4:28 pm
We too are at fault.
“A senior Defence Ministry official told The Island that the government had decided to release, after rehabilitation, the vast majority of those who had surrendered or been captured on the Vanni front or arrested in the South in a bid to reassure the Tamils.”
To APPEASE TAMILS we released Tamil war criminals whereas we should have PUNISHED THEM!!
(Or not have taken them prisoner in the first place).
Foolishness has a very heavy price tag!!
US war crimes Rapp CORRECTLY says (he is wrong on other matters) that we should have PUNISHED these terrorists.
January 10th, 2014 at 5:14 pm
It is difficult for “ex-terrorist” to be a normal citizen under supervised rehabilitation. They do it because they were told by the force, under the gun ( as they consider it). They do not understand it was done under “kindness and love”.
Even some children who have been asked to study ( or forced) do not understand it was done under “kindness and love”.
This is the reality.
We fools did not reinforce our legal system to cater for the betrayers of the land.
Our pragmatic leader (who wisely spoke of two categories of citizens) knowingly allowed those who do not love the country to roam about freely, destroying reputation of the nation.
Now the wives of the LTTE are able to meet US ambassador as a result of out foolishness.
may God bless out leader
January 11th, 2014 at 5:12 am
Thanks to Shenali and all those with comments so far. Clearly the Sri Lankans appear to be waiting to be thrashed at the forthcoming UNHRC session! May be we all have a ‘Sri Lankan National Death Wish’ !. SdeS
January 11th, 2014 at 11:53 am
When we talk of the “British Empire” we tend to associate it with other Empires through history but that is not the case. Empires through history be it the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, The Ashokan Empire, shared one thing in common. All parts of the empire prospered. There were no division from those in authority to those being ruled. An Empire by nature encompasses other civilizations or it would be simply called a kingdom. What separates these Empires with the British Empire is the word Colonial.
A revised version should label this British phenomena as the British Colonial Empire where those that ruled profited from those they ruled. The British Empire acted like a global apartheid system where vast parts of the Empire was drained of its resources, its people were not considered equal citizens of the empire and a racial division was one of the pillars of that Empire. It was an abomination of an Empire. The rulers exploited, condemned the cultures they ruled and rewrote history in favor of the those in power.
Instead of placing the emphasis on the word Empire, the emphasis should be placed on colonialism. The legacy of the colonial aspect of the British Empire continues to shape world politics as Western nations continue to perpetuate their sense of superiority over the “unwashed and uncivilized masses” of that were ruled by Great Britain.