If Colin Powell had any self-respect or an iota of conscience he would instead have addressed the holocaust now going on in Congo.
Anglo-American imperialism condones, promotes and abates Ugandan Lt. General Yoweri Museveni's and Rwandan General Paul Kagame's nonsesical argument that they have to deploy their mercenary armies deep inside Congo to protect their national borders from infiltration by Ugandan and Rwandese armed dissidents.
And yet there is only one medicine against any dissidents; organise democratic, free and fair elections. Indeed the argument of Rwanda's and Uganda's security concerns won thin long long ago.
Minerals which are strategic to the so-called 'Western Civilization' - i.e. the industrial catalysts Nobium, Vanadium, Tantalum etc... are leaving Congo in daily plane-loads; destined to the Pentagon.
Rwandan and Ugandan warlords together with white mercenaries who retired from both the British SAS and the apartheid Defence Forces share the loot of gold, Diamonds, tropical hard-wood timber, etc...
Indeed conflict resulting from the sharing of this loot has so far resulted in three wars between the Rwandese and Ugandan Armies; wars that have been fought not in the jungle but right in the Congolese city of Kisangani. i.e. Kisangani I, Kisangani II and Kisangani III.
The world knows all this. These wars have only stopped by admonishment from British pay-mistresses Baroness Lynda Chalker and Clare Short.
Oil prospecting on the Uganda-Congolese border has already started. The company doing this, HERITAGE OIL was not long ago registered in Toronto, Canada. It is owned by Baroness Lynda Chalker and white mercenaries who retired from both the British and the apartheid South Africa militaries.
Yoweri Museveni recruited child soldiers, used them as canon fodder, grabbed power and has been suffocating Ugandans now for 17 years.
Gen Paul Kagame - straight out of Officers College Fort Livenworth Kansas USA shot down a presidential plane of the late President of Rwanda, (the trigger to the Rwandese genocide) and was installed in power by imperialism using the Uganda mercenary army.
These two have ever since, thrived on a bogey of armed dissidents, which 'dissidents' are their own creations. Their fighters go around an anthill and emerge as govt soldiers; then they go around the same anthill again and emerge as armed rebels. Indeed fighting 'dissidents' has become not only a very lucrative industry but a scare-crow for the maintainance of their grip on power. It is the African people that are paying so dearly in this sick circus.
These thugs have now exported their mayhem to Democratic Republic of the Congo - DRC - and so far over 4 million in DRC have perished since 1996.
How can Colin Powell look himself in the mirror in light of all this? Not since WW2 has the world seen so much death. Except this time it is black lives and nobody seems to care. On the other hand, all along, Britain and Washington have constantly funded Yoweri Museveni's and General Paul Kagame's black mercenary armies of death and genocide.
Indeed see New York Times of June 23, 2003. i.e. "Innocence of Youth Is Victim of Congo War"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/international/africa/23CONG.html?ex=1057418541&ei=1&en=deb99a1158e92bf8
It is laid out in this article that the bulk of the armed combatants in DRC are child soldiers. They are abducted from DRC, trained in Uganda, and sent back to kill and be killed. Surely these are massive crimes against humanity.
Colin Powell must have had this New York Times issue of June 23, 2003 on his desk when he was penning his of June 24, 2003 against President Robert Mugabe.
Colin Powell should reflect on what happened to him at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where his limousine was nearly overturned and his four-person marine detail were beaten and thrown into the fense by an irate population.
Even at the World conference on Development in Pretoria, all delegates walked out on him when he started on this nonsense of Mugabe bashing. Africans have showed him time and time again that they dont want him trashing Robert Mugabe. When is he going to learn?
Mitayo Potosi
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--- Begin Message ---Letter to the Editor:
New York Times
To the Editor:
Response to ““Freeing a Nation From a Tyrant’s Grip”
(Op-Ed article by Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State)
Secretary Powell has not taken to heart the historical insight that Mr. Harry Belafonte attempted to give him in likening Powell’s political actions and commentary to that of a “house Negro”, who finds it more rewarding to carry out the wishes of his master - in this case President Bush - than to represent the interests of African people.
The road that President Robert G. Mugabe has chosen is endeavoring to correct the historical crime against humanity brought on by British colonialism which robbed Zimbabwe (colonial name, Rhodesia) of it’s name, land, labor and tens of thousands of lives. America and Britain did not bring democracy to Zimbabwe. A nation of people fought for it. A nation who saw 4,000 white farmers own over 75% of the best land of a country of 12 million people.
President Mugabe is returning the land to the people. Mugabe is right.
Mr. Omowale Clay
Friends of Zimbabwe
New York City, New York
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