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CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT - RUSSIA IN THE CAUCASUS
by Eric Margolis - 22 Dec 95
One
of the worst crimes of our time continues in the Caucasus
mountains - while the world turns its eyes away.
While
China is rightly condemned worldwide for its brutal repression
of Tibet, and jailing of dissidents, Russia's savagery in
Chechenya is utterly ignored.
A
year ago this month, the Russian Army invaded the tiny
mountain republic to crush the attempt by the 1.2 million,
mainly Muslim, Chechens to regain their independence after a
century and a half of savage Russian colonial rule.
At
the time, Russian Defense Pavel Grachev boasted he would
`liquidate' the uprising in a few days. What could a few
thousand irregular Chechen fighters do against 50,000 Russian
troops, backed by armor, artillery, helicopter gunships and
aircraft? Hadn't the rebellious Caucasian mountaineers learned
their lesson when Stalin deported 80% of all Chechens to
Siberian concentration camps in 1944?
Evidently
not. Showing all their legendary courage, ferocity, and
tenacity, lightly armed Chechen fighters stopped the Russian
Army, troops of the Interior Ministry, and KGB units, in their
tracks. Proclaiming a Jihad, or holy war, the Chechen
mujihadin defeated Russian tanks and armored fighting vehicles
in the streets of the capitol, Grozny, with only Molotov
cocktails and hand-held RPG anti- tank rockets.
While
the western world celebrated Christmas,1994, Russian forces
used heavy artillery, massed rocket batteries, and carpet
bombing, to grind Grozny and any Chechen village that
resisted, to rubble. Over the past year, at least 45,000
Chechens, mainly civilians, have been killed by the Russians.
Moscow admits to losing 2,300 soldiers; the true figure is
likely above 6,000. Human rights groups accuse the Russians of
widespread torture, mass executions, reprisals, and collective
punishment in Chechnya.
This
week, Chechen mujihadin launched fierce attacks on their
Russian occupiers aimed at disrupted phony elections staged by
Moscow to install a Chechen puppet communist regime, led by
Quisling named Zavgayev. Chechen still strongly support their
elected president, Gen. Dzhokar Dudayev, who leads the
national resistance from the nation's wild southern mountains.
Dudayev
ousted the communist regime in 1991 in a freeÔ the
decomposing Soviet Union. Though other republics, like
Ukraine, Uzbekistan or Lithuania, successfully quit the USSR,
not a single nation recognized free Chechenya. It was too
remote, too unimportant.
Russia
was determined to hold on to Chechnya: it controls important
oil pipeline running from Azerbaijan. Freedom for Chechenya
could break Moscow's hold on the entire strategic Caucasus
region. The KGB tried three times to assassinate Gen. Dudayev.
When these attempts failed, KGB mounted a covert invasion of
Chechenya in summer, 1994, using regular Russian troops
masquerading as Chechen. The Russians were humiliatingly
routed. Yeltsin's `Bay of Pigs' cost US $650 million - some of
it supplied by western aid donors. Six months later, Moscow
openly invaded Chechenya.
Chechens
are used to Russian invasions. Tsarist Russia first began
conquering the Muslim emirates of the Caucasus in the 1830's.
The great Chechen leader, Imam Shamil, lead a magnificent,
29-year resistance to Russia's armies. The Chechen were
finally overwhelmed by Russian numbers. But they rebelled anew
in 1863, during the Polish revolt. In 1877, after which Russia
slaughtered 60% of the total population. In 1917, and in 1920.
No
people anywhere on earth fought so long or hard against
tyranny and colonialism as the Chechen - and none has suffered
so much. Stalin attempted genocide by sending almost the
entire Chechen nation to the Gulag, including the parents of
the current leader, Dzhokar Dudayev, and those of the renowned
mujihadin commander, Shamil Basaev, a true `saif ul-Islam'
(sword of Islam). A few Chechen survived.
Their
offspring, the children of the concentration camps, are now
fighting Russian rule.
Bloody
battles raged in Chechenya all this week. Chechen mujihadin
seized two major cities and held them against the full might
of massed Russian firepower. Moscow poured more troops, tanks,
guns and aircraft into Chechnya - so far, to no avail. But how
long can a few mountaineers, no matter how valiant and
fearless, fight mighty Russia, with 149 million people and the
world's second largest ground forces?
The
world turns its back on Chechenya. President Clinton gave
Moscow a free hand in Chechenya, in exchange for Russian
acquiescing to the farcical American invasion of Haiti. No one
wants to anger Moscow by supporting tiny Chechenya. Not even
Islamic nations, who have totally ignored the Jihad in
Chechnya. The nearby Turks and Iranians are so frightened by
Moscow they dare not supply the Chechen even a few bullets.
The Chechen's sole source of arms and supplies are those
captured from Russian forces.Ô `independent' Georgia and
Azerbaijan, to cut off any potential supplies for the
mujihadin. Anti-insurgent techniques perfected in Afghanistan,
where the Soviets slaughtered 1.5 million people, are being
used again in Chechnya.
What
can the world do? Cut off all financial and technical aid to
Moscow. Boycott Russian exports of oil, vodka, and raw
materials. Arm the Chechens. Keep denouncing Russian
atrocities until Moscow is compelled by world outrage to leave
Chechnya -just as it was finally forced to quit Afghanistan.
In
Chechnya, `democratic' Boris Yeltsin and his generals are
committing crimes worthy of Josef Stalin. The world's silence
is shameful and sickening.
copyright Eric Margolis 1995
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Russia
On Autopilot, Muslim Genocide Continues
by
Eric Margolis © Eric Margolis
With
Yeltsin currently hospitalized and incapacitated, all the
world wonders who is master of Mother Russia? The answer is no
one. Like one of those notoriously accident-prone Aeroflot
planes - known in the airline trade as 'Aeroplop'- Russia is
flying through increasingly rough weather on a broken
autopilot.
Russia's
Asian neighbors also have stealth rulers. China's red emperor,
Deng Xioping, has been invisible for years and may not even be
alive. Weird North Korea is run by Kim Jong-il, a shadowy,
eccentric figure who is rarely seen. Even then,
surgically-altered doubles often stand in for him. This allows
Kim to stay tucked away in his palace, watching movies on his
home entertainment system.
At
least China and North Korea have functioning governments.
Russia's squabbling, fragmented regime operates only
intermittently. In fact, Russia has become what the Ottoman
Empire was called a century ago: 'the Sick Man of Europe.'
Russia
bears uncanny similarities to the dying Ottoman Empire:
ramshackle government rotted by corruption; demoralized army;
entrenched bureaucracy fighting for its privlidges; rebellious
provinces; and economic anemia.
Coincidentally,
on 04 August 1996, the remains of Enver Pasha, one of this
century's most colorful figures, were reburied with pomp in
Istanbul, Turkey. Enver, who was of Albanian origin, became
leader of the Young Turks, a group of army officers who seized
power before WWI from the sick, aged Sultan, and attempted to
revitalize the moribund empire.
Enver
eventually lost out to his rival, Mustafa Kemal - Ataturk. In
the 1920's, the fiery Enver embarked on a crusade to liberate
the Turkic peoples of Central Asia from Soviet rule. He died
flamboyantly in Tajikistan, in August, 1922, leading a cavalry
charge against Soviet machine guns. Soviet secret police long
concealed the site of Enver's grave, fearing it would become a
shrine for Muslims resisting communist rule.
When
I began writing three years ago about the Chechen people's
seemingly impossible struggle to regain their independence
after 250 years of savage Russian colonial rule, few people
had ever heard of the tiny Caucasian nation of 1.2 million
fierce mountaineers. Chechnya, then unknown and unlamented,
was only worthy of a few, back-page lines. Newspaper editors
used to dismiss reports from such remote places as 'Afghan
stories' - at least until the once obscure Afghan struggle
against Soviet invasion finally defeated the Red Army and led
to the collapse of the mighty Soviet Union. In Chechnya,
Russian generals openly contradicted their president,
declaring the war would go on 'until all the Muslim bandits
are killed.' Russia's military continued its scorched earth
campaign, using heavy artillery, rockets and bombs to
pulverize any Chechen village, town or city deemed
'unfriendly.'
When
the Soviet Union broke up, Chechnya declared independence. The
world failed to recognized the little nation, though its
people probably suffered more from Russian savagery than any
other on earth. In 1944, Stalin sent 75% of the entire Chechen
people to Siberian concentration camps. For the past 250
years, Russia resorted to genocide to crush attempts by
Chechen to regain their independence.
After
Chechen fighters routed a KGB invasion force in mid-1994,
whose goal was the overthrow of President Dudayev, Moscow sent
in the Russian Army in December, 1994. Since then, Russian
forces have killed 40,000 Chechens and laid waste the country.
Two thousand Chechen 'disappeared' after being arrested by KGB
and Interior Ministry units. Human rights organizations accuse
Russian forces of mass executions, bloodthirsty reprisals, and
widespread torture.
Predictably,
perhaps, Clinton keeps supporting Russia's criminal war in
Chechnya. He personally rammed a new, USA $10.2 billion loan
for Yeltsin through the IMF, half of which will go to pay for
the war. Clinton even publically endorsed the war, saying that
he backed Russia's need to 'maintain its territorial
integrity.'
In
March 1996, US Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced
in Moscow that US-Russian relations were 'excellent,' - at the
very moment Russian forces were exterminating large numbers of
Chechen civilians. While Clinton anguished on TV over terror
attacks that left 63 Israelis dead, he remained mute over
Soviet terrorism in Chechnya that killed 600 times more
civilians.
The
respected Georgian writer, Melor Sturua, a columnist for the
leading Russian newspaper, 'Izvestia,' wrote recently of
America's disgraceful silence over Chechnya: 'I remember a
time when the arrest of even one Soviet dissident would create
a storm of indignation here(in the US). Soviet embassies were
picketed, Soviet goods boycotted, Soviet crimes were
condemned.' Congress imposed trade sanctions on the USSR to
force it to allow Jewish emigration to Israel. Today, after
Russia slaughters 42,000 Chechens, Washington gives Moscow USA
$10.2 billion.
In
Afghanistan, as I experienced firsthand, Soviet forces
targeted and hunted journalists. They wanted to commit their
crimes in the dark. Russia follows the same policy in
Chechnya: reporters are banned or threatened. Of 42 serious
attacks against Russian journalists last year, half were
believed to have been the work of the Yeltsin government. Many
victims were harsh critics of the Chechen war. In Chechnya,
Moscow is using the same terror tactics I saw in Afghanistan:
promotion by KGB of 'ethnic turmoil' among different tribes
and local leaders. Threats and intimidation, followed by
selective assassinations. If these fail, mass destruction of
civilian areas, poisoning of fields and water, slaughter of
livestock. Mass reprisals and acts of terror, then wholesale
genocide.
A
campaign of state-directed racism warns the Russian public
that all Chechen are 'bandits,' and 'Muslim terrorists.'
Traditional Russian hatred of Muslims is relentlessly whipped
up, aided by the many KGB agents within the clergy of the
Russian Orthodox Church. The new KGB director, taking a page
from Dr. Goebbels, recently declared, 'The Chechen can only be
a murderer, a robber, or at least a thief.'
Now,
the new Sick Man of Europe also has its Young Turk, He is
retired general, and now national security supremo, Alexander
Lebed, who this week was dispatched by the invisible Tsar
Boris with orders to do something about the widening disaster
Chechnya.
Yeltsin
was following a 200-year old Russian tradition. Whenever
fierce Chechens rebelled against Russian colonial misrule and
sliced Russian occupation armies into shaslik, the Tzar would
send down a plenipotentiary general to sort out the mess. The
new supremo would fire incompetent Russian commanders, hang
some recalcitrants, lay fire and sword on Chechen civilians,
then sign a peace deal with Chechen leaders that no one
expected to last very long.
In
trying to resolve the mess in Chechnya, Lebed must contend
with the Russian Army, and the KGB. The KGB began the war
against Chechnya, and remains its strongest advocate,
supported by the powerful Interior Ministry, which has its own
field army. The Russian Army, with a deep, Afghan-induced
aversion to guerrilla warfare, was forced to participate by
the thuggish defense minister, Gen. Pavel Grachev.
However,
the Army kept its best troops out of the war - units like the
Tula and Ryazan paratroopers, or Moscow and Smolensk Guards
tank divisions, fearing these crack offensive formations -
which are tasked against Europe - would become bogged down in
the Caucasus. Moscow threw in Interior Ministry troops, KGB
death squads, and B category troops, some little better than
the Ottoman Army's infamous cannon fodder, the 'bashi-bazouks.'
Though
well-armed, the Russians are poorly led and deeply
demoralized. Artillery and air power are assigned the task of
blasting into dust any Chechens who resisted Moscow's diktat.
So
Young Turk Lebed must now try to make peace with the Chechens,
while fending off KGB and allied hardliners in Moscow who want
to pursue the war 'a outrans.'. A Russian defeat in Chechnya
could prove Lebed's Waterloo - a result earnestly desired by
his many rivals.
But
a settlement, hard as it may be to imagine, could do for Lebed
what the victory at Rivoli did for Napoleon: propel him into
power in Moscow. One of Lenin's deepest fears, the threat of
Bonapartism, hangs over the Kremlin.
As
Yeltsin's health deteriorates, would-be successors are
positioning themselves for the inevitable power struggle.
Yeltsin might still do an Ivan the Terrible, rising from his
death bed, to smite all those who dared aspire to his throne,
but that's unlikely.
Look
for a bitter struggle between Prime Minister Victor
Chernomyrdin, supported by the energy, heavy machinery and
military industrial barons; the armed forces, tentatively
backing Lebed; the KGB (renamed SVR), now allied to the
Foreign Ministry; Chief of Staff Anatoly Chubais and his
coterie of powerful bankers and business moguls; assorted
mafias; Yeltsin's Kremlin entourage; and communists, baying in
the wings.
That's
just in Moscow. The rest of Russia's vastness is ruled by a
dizzying collection of warlords, chieftains and local nabobs -
quite like the old, decentralized Ottoman Empire. Trying to
manage this unwieldy geographical and political immensity
consumes all the Kremlin's energies. The last, unfortunate
Ottoman Sultans had the same problem with their decaying
empire.
The
last Sultans, at least, took solace in their harems and
hookahs. Poor Boris Yeltsin has only Mrs Yeltsin and his
dubious doctors.
Europe
winks at Russian genocide - as it did at Serbian genocide in
Bosnia. Muslim nations again do nothing. Malaysia even goes
ahead and shamelessly buys Russian warplanes. Claims by Moscow
and the Clinton Administration that Russia faces national
break-up if Chechnya is allowed independence are nonsense.
Save
for handfuls of other subject Caucasian peoples on Russia's
southern edge, like Ingush, Cherkass, and Daghestanis,
Russia's other autonomous-minded regions, like Tatarstan or
Yakutia, are deep within Slav territory. It's time for the
west to tell Russia: Stop your crimes in the Caucasus. Set the
Chechens free.
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Chechens
Pay for Putin's Rise, Yeltsin's Immunity
Russians
may use vacuum bombs and chemical weapons
WASHINGTON,
D.C. -- The Chechens are paying a high price for Mr. Vladimir
Putin's rise from obscurity to Acting President of Russia, and
for his grant of immunity to former president Boris Yeltsin
who was being investigated on charges of corruption.
A
series of bomb explosions in Moscow, and other Russian cities,
last summer was the beginning of Putin's rise to power and
popularity. Until his appointment as Prime Minister last
August, according to the BBC (Stephen Mulvey, "Vladimir
Putin: Spy Turned Politician," January 1, 2000), "he
was a little known figure who had spent most of his career
working for the Soviet security service, the KGB, including
several years as a spy in Germany. In a matter of weeks he had
become the most popular politician in the country, and by the
end of the year, the acting president."
According
to the Economist
(Editorial, January 8, 2000), "No clear evidence has yet
been found for who was responsible for those bombs, and no one
has claimed responsibility." But, says the Economist,
given the huge benefits that Putin, and the security forces in
general, have gained from those tragedies it would be foolish
to rule out Putin's role in the bombing.
Indeed,
the Independent
(Helen Womack, "Russian Agents 'Blew Up Moscow
Flats'," January 6, 2000) has obtained a videotape in
which a Russian officer, Lieutenant Galtin, captured at the
border between Dagestan and Chechnya while on a mine-laying
mission says, "I know who is responsible for the bombings
in Moscow (and Dagestan). It is the FSB (Russian security
service), in cooperation with the GRU, that is responsible for
the explosions in Volgodonsk and Moscow."
This
confirms what Dr. Aslambek Kadiev told BBC ("A Chechen
View of Russia's War," December 26, 1999) a few days
earlier. Said Dr. Alambek, "There are two main reasons
for the two wars which Russia has launched against Chechnya.
The first is economic: Russia wants to control the Caucasus
oilfields and pipeline routes. The second is connected with
the political situation in Russia, and particularly inside the
Kremlin." Dr. Kadiev explains, "The political
purpose of the first Chechen war was to increase Boris
Yeltsin's popularity and get him re-elected president in 1996.
The main aim of this second war is to ensure that Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin, a former spy and President Yeltsin's
anointed heir, becomes president at the next elections. The
apartment bombings in Russian cities early this year were used
by Russia to justify its invasion."
Boris
Yeltsin stunned Russians by announcing his resignation and
saying elections will be held in 90 days for a new president.
According to the Associated Press (Barry Renfrew,
"Yeltsin Resigns, Turns Over Powers," January 31,
1999) "Yeltsin said he was stepping down immediately
because he wanted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to succeed
him. Putin then signed a decree offering Yeltsin immunity from
prosecution, a lifetime pension, a government country home and
bodyguards and medical care for him and his family."
According
to the Washington
Post (Sharon LaFraniere, "Yeltsin Is Linked to
Bribe Scheme," September 8, 1999), a Swiss investigation
uncovered evidence that "a construction company that
received major Kremlin contracts paid tens of thousands of
dollars of bills charged to credit cards in the names of
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his two daughters,"
Yelena Okulova and Tatyana Dyachenko. And this may be just the
tip of the iceberg.
About
$100 billion to $150 billion has fled abroad since 1992,
according to Russian and Western estimates (David Hoffman,
"Russia's Cash Flow Flows Out," Washington
Post, August 29,1999). "Russian general
prosecutor, Yuri Skuratov, had threatened to reveal the
identities of what he described as high-level government,
officials with Swiss bank accounts. They had been examining
how the foreign currency earnings of the national airline,
Aeroflot, were reportedly channeled into a Swiss company
believed by the investigators to be controlled by tycoon Boris
Berezovsky."
As
long as he remained in office, Yeltsin was immune from
prosecution. But with presidential elections scheduled for
next May, Yeltsin had three choices -- flee the country,
choose a sympathetic successor, or declare a state of
emergency, canceling the elections. Vladimir Putin, his
hand-picked successor (or self-appointed successor -- some say
Yeltsin was ousted in a coup d'etat), granted immunity and
more to Boris Yeltsin.
The
Chechens, who are paying with
their lives for the Yeltsin/Putin "Wag the Dog"
war, have endured 250 years of brutal Russian occupation.
About one-quarter of them perished during forced exile by
Stalin in 1944. Since the recent Russian war on Chechnya, an
estimated 200,000 Chechen refugees have fled to Ingushetia.
About 3000 have been killed, and 10,000 wounded. And 40,000
remain trapped in basements in Chechnya in sub-freezing
temperatures.
Now,
according to the London Times (Alice Lagnado, January 8, 2000) "Russia may
resort to more powerful weapons to end a war that is going
badly. Vacuum bombs could bring the fighting to a speedy end.
Russian forces may also be considering the use of chemical
weapons."
The
U.S. attitude toward the Chechens was summed up in statements
made by Madeleine Albright, and Lawrence Eagleburger.
Said
the Canadian columnist, Eric Margolis ("U.S. Aids
Russia's Crimes in the Caucasus," Toronto Sun, October 12, 1999), "In Moscow, standing
next to her beaming Russians hosts, US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright proclaimed 'we are opposed to terrorism' -
meaning Islamic rebels in the Caucasus fighting Russian rule.
She said nothing about Russia's blatant violation of its 1996
treaty that granted Chechnya de facto independence. She made
no protest over Moscow's egregious violation of the 1990 CFE
[Conventional Forces in Europe] Treaty, the most important
east-west arms reduction pact, by moving large new forces into
the Caucasus."
And
on a recent PBS "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," former
U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger rationalized
Russia's genocidal war on Chechnya, saying, "They're
not very nice people."
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Cheaply
flows the blood of Muslims
By
Zafar Bangash
Not
only Muslim blood but even Muslim honour is cheap. One only
has to glance at the world from Indonesia, Chechenya to
Morocco and all places in-between for confirmation. The death
toll is so horrendous that it defies description.
If
the earlier decades were bad, the nineties have been worse for
the sheer magnitude of slaughter of Muslims. Although
Bosnia-Herzegovina clearly dominated the news in the last few
years, its 300,000 deaths, mostly Muslims, were nothing
unusual. Muslims have been killed, maimed, raped and
humiliated in equally large numbers elsewhere.
This
is not to belittle the suffering of the people of Bosnia.
Europe - yes, the cradle of western civilization - witnessed
concentration camps again since the second world war; and also
ovens. Although not gas ovens this time, the net effect as far
as its victims were concerned, was no less brutal. Muslims
were burnt alive in smeltering plants all over Bosnia. The
perpetrators were Serbian Orthodox Christians.
People
in the 'civilised' west work themselves into a frenzy if their
favourite cat or dog is mistreated, not only remained silent
but when the existence of such camps was discovered, their
politicians simply took refuge behind blaming 'ancient
hatreds' for the genocide. Why such passions were suddenly
aroused to target a specific group of people - the Muslims -
was never explained. And if this was all based on 'ancient
hatreds', why is it that only one side - the Serbs - was doing
the killings and not the other - the Muslims?
This
was capped by imposing an arms embargo on the Muslims leaving
them totally defenceless. Surely, this was not the result of
ancient ethnic hatreds, or was it? The west's only concern was
that the Serbs were not doing the job of finishing the Muslims
efficiently. After a three-year bloodbath, there were still
enough Muslims left in Bosnia to continue to resist. The real
failure in Bosnia, from the west's point of view, was that the
Serbs had not been able to wipe out all the Muslims, even if
they came close to doing so.
Bosnia,
however, is not the only place despite giving the world such
exotic phrases as 'ethnic cleansing' and rape camps. These
sound so mechanical; all emotion is drained out of them.
Clearly, impure things have to be cleansed out. At a stroke,
the Muslims were not only declared unwanted but they were also
branded as 'unclean' to be flushed out of the land. Never
mind, if their women were still raped despite enough Sebian
women being available and willing for the job.
The
Serbs are not the only ones to have indulged in such
bestiality. The white Americans are equally guilty of this.
African-American men are despite; they are branded as
criminals, shot at and jailed, but their women are covetted.
This has gone on for centuries.
Rape
as a weapon of war, however, did not originate with the Serbs.
The Hindu occupiers of Kashmir had started it much earlier.
The slaughter of their young men was not enough. The Kashmiri
women had to be dishonoured too. According to the most
conservative estimates, at least 50,000 women have been raped
in Kashmir, matching the numbers in Bosnia.
>From
Kashmir we can go on to Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Chechenya,
Azerbaijan or even Mindanao, in southern Philippines. Wherever
there are Muslims, it seems there are massacres. In Palestine,
thousands of Palestinians - Muslims and Christians - have been
killed. Had Muslims killed a few Christians, all hell would
break loose. If the zionists do the killing, then it is all
right. Palestine also offers the largest number of refugees
confined for the longest period in camps. There are perhaps as
many as three million Palestinian refugees scattered across
the Middle East.
In
Lebanon, the Israeli invaders have slaughtered more than
40,000 civilians. When the relatives of these victims defend
themselves, they are immediately branded as 'terrorists' and
the western media are there to spread it to the whole world.
It is considered legitimate to blow people to pieces -
children, men and women - so long as it is done from a safe
distance in the air or with long range artillery. It is all
very sanitized and civilized. It is terrorism if civilians
want to fight the Israeli military with small arms or with
roadside bombs.
In
Chechenya, the Russian invaders killed more than 80,000 people
- most of them civilians - in a war that lasted 21 months (Chechenya's
total population is barely one million). In Kashmir, 60,000
people have been killed since 1990. Add to that 200,000 killed
in the Philippines, 500,000 in Iraq during the brief war in
January 1991 and another 100,000 in Azerbaijan and one gets
the picture.
It
is in Iraq, however, where the genocide of children is going
on at the behest of the US. Nothing would satiate the appetite
of the Americans. A million children starved to death is a
small price to pay for American megalomania. Blame it all on
Saddam Husain. True, he is a monster, but he is the west's own
creation. For the sake of one man, kill a million children.
Perhaps, in a year's time, another million children would be
dead.
As
long as pictures of emaciated Iraqi children with extended
bellies are kept out of the view of television camera and
therefore, away from the living rooms of American families,
Uncle Sam can continue with his genocide. After all, these are
Muslim children and there are, in any case, too many Muslims
in the world. They are all 'terrorists' who must be killed
without mercy.
This
is the logic of the 'civilised' leaders of the world.
January 16-31, 1998
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