The real terrorists are the British Government --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Who are the Real Terrorists? > by Dr. MAHATHIR MOHAMAD > Former Prime Minister of Malaysia > Adeeb Press Link > Saturday, September 10, 2005 > http://adeebpress.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-are-real-terrorists.html > > [Speech delivered on Friday, 9 September 2005 at the > Human Rights > Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam - > www.suhakam.org.my) "Malaysian Human > Rights Day 2005 Conference: Human Rights and > Globalization" in Le > Meridien, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.] > > (AdeebPress.com) - I would like to thank Suhakam for > this honor to > address you on a subject that you have more > knowledge and experience > than I do. > > Your are concerned with Human Rights or Hak Asasi > Manusia. And it is > only right that as a civilized society and nation we > should all be > concerned with human rights in our country and in > fact in the world. > > But human rights should be upheld because they can > contribute to a > better quality of life. To kill 100,000 people > because you suspect > that the human rights of a few have been denied seem > to be a > contradiction. Yet the fanaticism of the champions > of human rights > have led to more people being deprived from their > rights and many > their lives than the number saved. It seems to me > that we have lost > our sense of proportion. > > With civilizational advances it is only right that > the human community > try to distinguish itself more and more from those > of the other > creatures created by God which are unable to think, > to reason and to > overcome the influence of basic desires and > feelings. Submission to > the strong and the powerful was right in the animal > world and in > primitive human societies. But the more advance the > society the > greater should be the capacity to think, to > recognize and evaluate > between right and wrong and to choose between these > based on higher > reasoning power and not just basic feelings and > desires. > > The world today is, in the sense of the ability to > make right choices, > still very primitive. For example those who claim to > be the most > civilized still believe that the misfortune which > befall them as a > result of the actions by their enemies are wrong but > the misfortune > that they inflict on their enemies are right. This > is seen from the > concern and anger over the death of 1,700 U.S. > soldiers in Iraq but > the death of a hundred times more of Iraqis as a > result of the > military invasion and occupation of Iraq and the > civil war > precipitated by the imposition of democratic > elections are not even > mentioned. There is no tally of Iraqi deaths but > every single death of > a U.S. soldier is reported to the world. These are > soldiers who must > expect to be killed. But the Iraqis who die because > of U.S. action or > the civil war in Iraq that the U.S. has precipitated > are innocent > civilians who under the dictatorship of Saddam > Hussein would be alive. > > You and I read reports of the death of Iraqis with > equanimity as if it > is right and just. You and I do not react with anger > and horror over > this injustice, this abuse of the rights of the > Iraqis to live, to be > free from terror including state-initiated-terror. > > Prior to the invasion of Iraq on false pretences, > 500,000 infants died > because sanctions deprived them of medicine and > food. Asked by the > press, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Secretary of > State, whether she > thought the price was not too high for stopping > Saddam Hussein's > dictatorship, she said it was difficult but the > price (death of > 500,000 children) was worth it. > > At the time this was happening where were the people > who are concerned > with human rights? Did they expose the abuses of > Britain and America? > Did they protest against their own Governments? No. > It is because > they, the enemy are killed. That is acceptable. But > their own people > must not be killed. To kill them is to commit acts > of terror. > > Yet what is an act of terror. Isn't it any act that > terrifies people? > Are not the people terrified at the idea of being > bombed and killed? > Those who are to be killed by exploding bombs know > they would have > their bodies torn from their heads and limbs. Some > will die instantly > no doubt. > > But many would not. They would feel their limbs > being torn from their > bodies, their guts spilled on the ground through > their torned abdomen. > They would wait in terrible pain for help which may > not come. And they > would again experience the terror, expecting the > next bomb or rocket. > And those who survive would know the terror of what > would, what could > happen to them personally when the bombers come > again, tomorrow, the > day after, the weak or month after. They would know > that they could be > next to have their heads torn off from their bodies, > their limbs too. > > They would know that they would die violently or > they would survive in > horrible pain, minus arms, minus legs, maimed > forever. And yet the > bombings would go on. In Iraq for ten years between > the Gulf War and > the Iraq invasion, the people lived in terrible > fear. They were > terrorized. Have they any rights? Did the people of > the world care? > > The British and American bomber pilots came, > unopposed, safe and cosy > in their state-of-the-art aircrafts, pressing > buttons to drop bombs, > to kill and maim real people who were their targets, > just targets. And > these murderers, for that is what they are, would go > back to celebrate > "Mission Accomplished". > > Who are the terrorists? The people below who were > bombed or the > bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away? > > I relate this because there are not just double > standards where human > rights are concerned, there are multiple standards. > Rightly we should > be concerned whether prisoners and detained foreign > workers in this > country are treated well or not. We should be > concerned whether > everyone can exercise his right to vote or not, > whether the food given > to detainees are wholesome or not, indeed whether > detention without > trial is a violation of human rights or not. > > But the people whose hands are soaked in the blood > of the innocents -- > the blood of the Iraqis, the Afghans, the > Panamanians, the > Nicaraguans, the Chileans, the Ecuadorians; the > people who > assassinated the Presidents of Panama, Chile, > Ecuador; the people who > ignored international law and mounted military > attacks, invading and > killing hundreds of Panamanian in order to arrest > Noriega and to try > him not under Panamanian laws but under their own > country's law -- > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! 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