THE HUMAN CATASTROPHE
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Farouk Asvat
In the 'civilized' 21st century, more people are dying from
war, violence, persecution, malnutrition and preventable diseases than at any other time in
history - in spite of the
propaganda.
In the technologically
advanced 21st century,
in spite of the meaningless slogans after the wars of the northern hemisphere - "never again" and "the war to end all wars" - more people are fleeing war, turmoil,
and oppression than at any other time in history.
After the second ‘world’ war, and the
atrocities of the German government, and the formation of the United Nations,
the UN sanctioned its first war in 1950 - led by the United States against
North Korea.
Then the US waged war against the people
of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos, leading to at least 3 million refugees - this
besides the massacre of civilians, and the deaths and atrocities inflicted
against the people, with the use of agent orange and napalm.
In addition, the United States has been
responsible for overthrowing the legitimate government of Mohammad Mossaddegh
in Iran in 1953, for overthrowing the democratically elected government of
Salvador Allende in Chile 1973, and for the military coup against the
democratically elected government of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013.
At the end of the 20th century and the
beginning of the 21st century, there is still human slavery and cannibalism, there
is the massacre of a million children, women and men in Rwanda in 1994; the
genocide of 100,000 people in East Timor in the 1990's; and the rape of Muslim women and the
massacre of 27,000 Muslim men and boys in Europe in 1995.
From 1919 to 1939, five million refugees
were accepted by the United States and Europe, after the Russian
Revolution. In 1956, 200,000 Hungarians were eagerly welcomed in
Europe.
South
Africa granted medical certificates to a boatload of people who had fled
communist Poland - even though they had no documents to prove their claims. The north Americans and Europeans were just too glad to accept people
from the communist countries as a means for propaganda during the second ‘world’ war and the
‘cold’ war - even accepting convicted criminals from Cuba.
But the north American, European and
Russian wars against Muslims has led to the displacement of an unprecedented
number of deaths and refugees since the 1980's.
There are now at least 60 million refugees
in the world, according to the United Nations.
People are fleeing the wars waged against them by the western
governments - from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Tunisia, amongst others.
The Russian war against Afghanistan led to
more than 8 million people seeking refuge abroad: 4 million people to Iran and 4
million to Pakistan alone, besides those who were forced into exile in their
own country; in addition to the large number of deaths and casualties inflicted
upon the people of Afghanistan. (The UNHCR
has no figures for how many people actually fled Afghanistan from 1980 -1991!).
In the Russian genocide against the people
of Chechnya in the 1990's, the atrocities against the people led to thousands
of Muslims being massacred by the Russians.
(Again the UNHCR do not have statistics for these massacres or the
number of refugees).
Then the Serbian war against Muslims led
to 1 million people fleeing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid 1990's - in addition
to the rape of Muslim women and the massacre of 27,000 Muslim men and
boys.
After the extended occupation of Palestine
and the increasing atrocities of the Israelis, there were already 96,000 people
fleeing Palestine in 1990 alone.
In 2013 alone, 2.5 million people fled Iraq,
where the western powers invaded a sovereign state more than a decade earlier,
without any justification at all - to ‘impose’ western democracy, to steal oil,
to destroy Iraq, and to defend Israel.
In Syria, at least 330,000 people have
been killed, 8 million people have been internally displaced, and more than 4
million Syrians have fled abroad since 2011 - ie half the population in the country
has been banished from their homes - of these 2 million people have sought
refuge in Turkey, more than 1 million in Lebanon, and more than a million in
other Arab countries, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia (labelled as ‘visitors’), Iraq,
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco.
Only now is there a ‘refugee crisis’ /
‘migrant crisis’ - now that 650,000 Muslims, are seeking refuge in Europe.
Of those countries most responsible for
the wars against the Muslims, the USA and the UK have taken the least amount of
refugees from any of these conflicts they have inflicted: the USA, for
instance, has taken only 1,500 refugees from Iraq - mainly collaborators.
Most of these statistics obviously do not
include the sheer horror of war - it does not include the men, women and
children who have been killed or maimed by these colonial invasions, by the landmines
and depleted uranium bombs used by the western regimes and Israel; it does not
include the people still facing turmoil in their own homes, those exiled in their
own country, or the people banished from their own country - due to the
aggression of the foreign forces.
Instead of addressing the root causes of why people leave their
comfortable homes and businesses - (for which the western governments (including
Russia) are responsible) - the western media keep blaming Assad, Iran, Hizb'Allah, ISIS and ‘traffickers’. Instead, the blame lies squarely with the western
perpetrators who have invaded all these sovereign states - with the collusion
of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Most of all, blame the United States; blame
big Bush and little Bush; blame their poodle, Tony Blair - for the tortures, massacres,
kidnappings and unsubstantiated wars; blame Clinton for bombing Afghanistan;
blame Powell for justifying the invasion of Iraq; blame Obama for continuing
the incarceration and torture of people without trial for 15 years, for
continuing the wars, for killing innocent people with drones; blame the
European nations for being minions of the US; blame Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Egypt and Morocco for doing the bidding of their masters. Blame Russia for invading Afghanistan, blame
Putin for bombing guerilla fighters and civilians in Syria;
but most of all blame the United States - the greatest threat to world peace -
for invading Iraq again and again, for invading Afghanistan, for invading Syria
- for the children, women and men fleeing their homes, for the deaths and the
massacres of civilians.
©
farouk asvat
SILENCE AGAINST TYRANNY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS
WE ARE ALL REFUGEES
Have you read?
TELL ME NO LIES: investigative journalism and its
triumphs: John Pilger (editor)
WORLD ORDERS: OLD AND NEW: Noam Chomsky
THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION: the conquest of the
middle east: Robert Fisk
MARXISM AND OTHER WESTERN FALLACIES: Ali Shariati
OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA: Eduardo Galeano
THE WIND BLOWS AWAY OUR WORDS: Dorris Lessing
THE
WRETCHED OF THE EARTH: Frantz Fanon
A
STUDY OF HISTORY: Arnold J Toynbee
HOLY WAR: the crusades and their impact on
today's world: Karen Armstrong
UNTOLD HISTORY: Oliver Stone
HARVEST OF EMPIRE: Juan Gonzalez
work in
progress
posted: 30.10.2015
original
composed: october 2015.
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