UNITED STATES AND NATO: THE AXIS OF GENOCIDE

Pakistan Daily

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Jan 29 2009
Pakistan

What is the world to do about major human rights atrocities and
catastrophes that undeniably do occur today? Certainly, the world
must not accord the great military powers such as the United States,
the NATO states, Russia, and China some fictive right of "humanitarian
intervention" that these powerful states will only abuse and manipulate
in order to justify military aggressions against less powerful states
and peoples for their own selfish interests. There is no need to
alter or update presently existing international law in order to
expand the possibilities for a military "responsibility to protect"
in response to purportedly new exigencies of the day-there are more
than enough international laws and international organizations to
deal with major human rights atrocities and catastrophes going on
around the world today. The demand to do so reflects a political
agenda seeking legal legitimacy, not a deficit in the existing law.

Indeed, behind most of the major human rights atrocities and
catastrophes in the world today humankind has seen in operation
the Machiavellian machinations of the great military powers. So it
should have come as no surprise that the world witnessed outright
genocide inflicted by Serbia and its Milosevic government against the
Kosovar Albanians immediately after the United States and the NATO
states launched their illegal war against Serbia in March of 1999,
a genocide which NATO admittedly anticipated but which in actuality
transpired as the direct result of its aggression. Of course the
nominally Christian United States and NATO states could not care less
about the basic human rights of Kosovar Albanians, most of whom are
Muslims. Soon thereafter, the world witnessed once again outright
genocide inflicted by Indonesia against the people of East Timor
after decades of military and economic support had been provided to
the genocidal military dictatorship ruling Indonesia by the United
States and Britain-"our kind of guy," as the Clinton administration
publicly referred to the genocidaire Suharto when he came to visit
the United States.

Also in this regard, the world must never forget that the indigenous
peoples of Canada, the United States, and Latin America have been
subjected to continuing acts of genocide for over the past 500
years, all in the guise of bringing civilization. How can the United
States and its NATO ally Canada talk about a "humanitarian mission"
in Afghanistan when both states have a long history of practicing
"humanitarian extinction" at home? Despite the slogan and the rhetoric
of "Never again!" that was used with respect to the Nazi Holocaust
against the Jews, toward the start of the twentieth-first century,
genocide has become an increasingly familiar and acceptable tool for
powerful states to wield against weaker states and peoples.

No state has the right or standing under international law to launch
an illegal military attack upon another U.N. member state in the name
of "humanitarian intervention." This principle applies to both the
United States and Canada, which are today continuing to extinguish
the indigenous peoples who live within their imperial domains under
concepts similar to humanitarianism, if not so-labeled. It applies
to Britain’s prolonged colonial occupation of Ireland as well as its
deportation of the people of Diego Garcia. It applies to the outright
genocides Italy inflicted against the peoples of Libya and Ethiopia;
those perpetrated by Spain and Portugal against the indigenous peoples
of Latin America; the monstrous genocide committed by Belgium in the
Congo; and the genocides committed by France in Algeria and Vietnam,
all of whom averred their colonized peoples had been the better for it.

How could NATO member Turkey ever credibly claim some fictive right of
"humanitarian intervention" anywhere given its longstanding campaign
to submerge the Kurds as well as its previous extermination of the
Armenians, a genocide which it still denies today. Only the Nazi-German
genocide against the Jews in Germany and elsewhere has been recognized
for what it was. Yet today a generation later the gullible world is
supposed to believe the NATO fairy-tale that the German Wehrmacht is
now on some type of "humanitarian" mission in Afghanistan. The wanton
aggression by the U.S.-U.K. and their "Coalition of the Willing"
against Iraq in the name of bringing human rights and democracy has
resulted in four million refugees, over a million Iraqi deaths,
and the wholesale destruction of the country’s infrastructure –
outright genocide.

The United States and its NATO Alliance constitute the greatest
collection of genocidal states ever assembled in the entire history of
the world. If anything the United Nations Organization and its member
states bear a "responsibility to protect" the U.S. and NATO’s intended
victims from their repeated aggressions as they should have done for
Haiti, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and now Palestine. The
United States and the NATO Alliance together with their de facto
allies such as Israel constitute the real Axis of Genocide in the
modern world. Humanity bears a "responsibility to protect" the very
future existence of the world from the United States and NATO.