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The Houla massacre in Syria on Friday shocked the world. It left 108 civilians dead including 49 children and 34 women. Although the identities of the perpetrators are not known, the blame for the heinous crime has naturally been pinned on the Assad government. Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Bulgaria lost no time in expelling Syrian diplomats in what is described as a coordinated blow to the Assad regime. They have gone so far as to threaten sanctions against Syria!
The civilised world`s consternation is understandable and everything possible must be done to end the mindless bloodletting in Syria. But, the question is whether it is only in countries with governments perceived to be hostile to the west that the international community should make radical interventions to prevent civilian massacres and protect human rights? Some of the countries that have thrown out Syrian diplomats are troubled by a history of having backed far worse dictators than Assad such as Pinochet, the usurper whose Caravan of Death killed thousands of suspected communists in Chile, Idi Amin, the cannibal of Uganda, Bokassa, who fed his pet crocs with schoolchildren in Central Africa, Suharto of Indonesia responsible for massacring thousands of leftists, Papa Doc and Baby Doc, who disported themselves in killing dissidents in Haiti in their thousands, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who carried out genocidal attacks on Kurds and others until he fell from grace and Shah of Iran, whose brutality knew no bounds. At present, the human rights defenders all out to bring down Assad`s government are handling King Al Khalifa with kid gloves despite his grave human rights violations in Bahrain.
Another question that needs an answer is how to deal with the diplomats of the countries responsible for massacres overseas. No US diplomat got expelled by the self-righteous countries that have jointly risen against Syria, over the My Lai massacre (1968), where about 500 Vietnamese civilians including children and women perished at the hands of US troops. Nearly one million people have been killed in the US-led illegal war in Iraq. That Bush and Blair falsified intelligence dossiers to justify the Iraqi invasion has now been established. No less a person than Deputy Prime Minister of Britain Nick Clegg happened to remark in July 2010 in the British Parliament, while standing in for PM David Cameron, that the Iraqi war was illegal. It was only the other day that an Afghan family of eight including six children was killed in a NATO air strike. Thousands of civilians have died in attacks by foreign troops in that country. The western backed Libyan rebels continue to commit atrocities against civilians with impunity. Their military campaign which ousted and killed Gaddafi had cost over 50,000 lives by the time Tripoli fell, according to the rebel commander himself.
While this comment was being written, it was reported yesterday afternoon that an international war crimes court had convicted warlord turned former President of Liberia Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes by terrorists in Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds, and sentenced him to a 50-year jail term to be served in Britain.
The less said about a bloodthirsty monster like Taylor, the better but regrettably the western businesses that stood to gain from the blood diamonds plundered from Sierra Leone have gone scot free. Taylor is not the only head of state to have sponsored terrorism in another country. Others of his ilk are lucky that they are from powerful countries above the international law. Interestingly, it has now been revealed that CIA helped Taylor capture power in Liberia. He told the court that tried him in the Hague in July 2009 that the US agents had helped him escape from a Boston prison in 1985 and supplied him with arms for a coup in Liberia. CIA`s kneejerk reaction was to deny his claim as absurd. But, The Daily Telegraph reported on Jan. 17, 2012 that, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Boston Globe newspaper, the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon`s spy arm, had admitted that its agents, and those of the CIA, worked with Taylor from the early 1980s! Who will punish Taylor s American confederates?
Thus, it may be seen that the governments that have thrown out Syrian envoys in protest are acting just like the proverbial father crab which, while walking sideways, wants its offspring to go straight
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 3 Jun 2012 20:34:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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| We have to remember, about more than 40,000 people who were slatured in a week fight by a Genocide Regime. Justice should be done to these innocent childerns,woments,aged and moorned peoples, sooner or later |
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