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OCTOBER 28, 2011
[Rwanda, Bosnia, Libya[1]: Three nations devastated by war, their
peoples then subjugated to the neo-Liberal economic and
commercial interests of Western militarism, their lives
abjectly wasted, and all made to seem like the right and
proper things to do by organizations, hard-wired into the
Soft Machine of mainstream media lies, while defenders of
Human Rights, like the FIDH or US Institute for Peace (just
to pick the top of the scab), who encourage the fatuous
notions of the Right to Protect, preventative wars,
preemptive aggressions, beat their empty chests over
Stopping the Fucking Genocide!!, and propose humane mass-slaughter
and the conscientious destruction of entire national
infrastructures and ecosystems as the most suitable way
to enforce Democracy and Humanitarianism.
Recent events in Libya—including the
murder of the preeminent African leader, Moammar Gaddafi—have
made us recall our post from 2004, Humanitarians'
Genocides.
As was done with Rwanda's President,
Juvénal Habyarimana and Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, the Human Rights movement first engaged in a
concerted, if laughably evidence-free, campaign of
slander and libel against these targeted national leaders,
then had them extra-judicially executed for
unsubstantiated, unproven crimes against their own people—usually
for allegedly killing their own people—what people
were then set upon by the full bloody fury of the West's
military indignation.
Whether shot out of the sky, victims of
iatrogenically induced heart-lock while in captivity, or
tracked and gunned down like sick animals by their own
business partners, these national leaders were always,
first, hung out for the jackals on a Genocide beef—a
charge, like that of child-rape, from which their is no
relief.
But as you read this chestnut from 2004,
remember the warnings of that eminent humanitarian, the
half-mad NATO warlord, Gen. Wesley Clark, whose
humanitarian credentials date from well before he bombed
the homes and hospitals and schools and market places and
TV stations and Chinese embassies of Serbia in 1999, over
the criminal preserve of Kosovo, that after the
dissolution of the USSR, NATO militarism would be bent on
the eradication of any yearnings for independence or
national sovereignty among any of the former Soviet (and
later Chinese) client-states: from Afghanistan through
the Middle East to the whole African continent, all deals
must be brokered by Western Waste Capital’s toxic
offices. Hence, the genocides in the name of genocide
prevention end only when there are no more living souls
to bleed out. –mc]
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THE
HUMANITARIANS’ GENOCIDES
By
Mick Collins
Cirque
Minime/Paris
17
March 2004
In
light of recent developments at The Hague (the sudden
retirement of a sick Presiding Judge Richard May); and in
Paris (the publication in Le Monde of investigating Judge
Jean-Louis Bruguière’s report on the shooting down
on 6 April 1994 of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents’
plane that is widely considered to have triggered the
Rwandan genocide), one has to ask oneself, ‘What
could they have been thinking of back in 1993 when ‘genocide’
became the Western Liberal Wasters’ super-charge of
choice?’
Most
everybody knew from the jump, if few actually
acknowledged it, that the genocide charge against
President Milosevic—against all the Serbs, really—was
based primarily on what happened at Srebrenica in July
1995, and was completely unsubstantiated by any real
physical evidence (like where were the 5-8,000 murdered
Muslim men and boys stashed?). In fact, these
charges of genocide were nothing more than a
prosecutorial short cut, what used to be known back in
the day as ‘over-indictment’. When I was
doing my graduate work on the CDC’s Vacaville campus
(read: when I was the Calif. Dept. of Corrections’
guest number B32755Z), the deal usually went down like
this here:DA’d charge someone with murder and mayhem,
hoping he’d plead down to assault with intent—or
maybe Man 2, if they threatened to file all his priors. Then,
after he’d caught his time and went before the
parole board, he’d have to answer for the original (over)charges,
which, though they’d been dropped in the plea deal,
stayed on his sheet as ‘silent beefs’. But,
if he called the prosecution on their chump deal and told
them to shove it right back up in their briefcase and
take him to trial, and they couldn’t make the M&M
stick: then the accused won it all and he walked. Like
with OJ: they tried to get him to plead out to some
lesser charge than the capital double beheading, but he
took that butt-ugly DA to Judge Ito’s box, and he
and Johnny Cochran made the whole depraved, racist Court
TV culture eat shit. They finally had to go to civil
court to get any money satisfaction out of OJ and his
Heisman—but they made sure he’d never play at
Hillcrest again.
So
it was with Slobodan Milosevic: They had nothing on
him but a bunch of lies and war propaganda, and it took
them a full two years to expose their freakishly
mendacious case—so even their servile and
sycophantic supporters, like Marlise (‘You’re
So Lame’) Simons over at the NY Times or the hacks
at the virulently anti-Serb IWPR (who fired their man at
The Hague, Chris Stephens, after he wrote a piece on how
a Serb charged with the Srebrenica ‘genocide’,
Momir Nikolic, perjured himself while copping a plea and
rolling on his two mates), started going all Jell-O-like
with their endorsements. But, hey, the stress of
having to protect so many criminal witnesses, and to
suborn so muchperjury, and constantly to suppress one of
the last honest and honorable men in his pursuit of
accuracy and decency in the historical record, so as his
ferocious cross-examinations wouldn’t bring that
converted insurance company home-office down around their
philistine ears, proved to be too much for Judge May. For
those who witnessed the dark looks that crossed his and
Geoffrey Nice’s faces each time ‘the accused’
Milosevic impeached another of their witnesses or caught
the court in a lie or in some petty connivance to cover
yet another of their legal gaffes, it is no surprise that
May lost his stomach for daily demoralization and tossed
in his rented inquisitor’s robes--and that Nice is
rumored to be standing in the same window ready to jump.
But
who was it set the evidentiary pin all the way over on
‘genocide’ for these short-hitting teabag
shysters? And why?
President
& Mrs. Clinton, Warren Christopher, Madame Albright,
Richard Holbrooke, Lords Owen and Ashdown, Gen. Wesley
‘Bloody Nuts’ Clark, George Soros, all the
Liberal Humanitarians of the day, all so heartily
committed to the pervasion of Western waste culture,
particularly in the Balkans, Iraq and Central Africa,
needed some dodge to cover their venal and deadly
commercial machinations, while boosting their image of
good-hearted fecklessness (remember their motto: ‘Sorry
we didn’t do more sooner. But we feel your pain!’).
So
before any new age holocaust had even hit CNN, these
Military Humanists and their NGO caddies took a whip-around
of the Islamic oil emirates and various NATO client
states and wanabe client states and, on a thoroughly
extra-legal lark (as these ad hocs, despite all pretenses
to being neo-Nurembergers, have absolutely no basis in
the UN charter or in international law), cobbled together,
en bref, the International Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia (plus bref, ICTY), which, from its onset in
the Summer of 1993, included the flatulent criminal
concept of Genocide on its first things-to-stamp-out-in-smaller-countries
list—along with national sovereignty, secularism and
any and all tendencies toward politico-economic
independence.
It
wouldn’t be until the next year, 1994, that the
Rwandans would furnish what was by then being called the
‘international community’ with sufficient body-counts
(media-furnished photos of 10,000 Jonestowns) to warrant
a charge of such delusional grandeur--and an affiliated
Tribunal would immediately be formed in Arusha, Tanzania
(the ICTR), with the same prosecutor, South African
Richard Goldstone (to be replaced by Canadian Louise
Arbour in 1996 and Swiss Carla Del Ponte in 1999), and
the same questionable connections to the spirits of the
UN and international law, but with unqualified
loyalty to its Western imperialist sponsors. Though
the Arusha Tribunal was created after The Hague Tribunal,
it quickly became the precedent-setting court, with
Rwandan government officials, lonely as Serbs in the dock,
charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, and rape
as an instrument of genocide (the first-ever trial
of a woman, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, on this sort of rape
charge is currently in full swing—see the ever
impartial New York Times Magazine cover-story entitled
‘The Minister of Rape’, 15 Sept 2002).
This
combine of ad hocs was wedged by the US into an already
dysfunctional international justice system as a way to
protect itself against unseemly litigation (e.g., charges
of war crimes for the 78-day terror bombing of Yugoslavia
in 1999, aiding and abetting the RPF missile strike that
murdered the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in April
1994, or the use of its US Special Forces, from bases in
Burundi and Uganda, and various other Western aid to the
Kagame-led RPF invasions and occupations that brought
about the extermination of more than 6 million Central
Africans (they stopped counting at 6 million!) in Rwanda,
Burundi and Eastern Congo between 1990 and the
present). Then there was the large moneymaking UN
Reparations Commission for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
in 1990, which was also part of this infernal system. And
it became clear with the UN Commission on Iraq that the
principal purpose of Western-styled international justice
was to demonize the victims of Imperialist adventures,
while ripping off their national sovereignty and
indenturing them in perpetuity to International Financial
Institutions (IMF, World Bank, the Export-Import Bank,
the Bank of International Settlements, etc.), as well as
establishing fiscal liability on the part of the
vanquished for all war damages visited on them by the US
and its crime partners in their never-ending search for
new markets to terrorize with the dumping of their
surplus waste ordnance.
And
that other Hague court, the International Court of
Justice, had proven itself a real nuisance with its
irregular but persistent war crimes charges against the
US & Co. (e.g., for the bombing of North Vietnam, the
mining of Haiphong harbor, as well as the similar mining
of Nicaraguan ports 20 years later, or Israel’s
building of its Wall in the occupied territories of
Palestine.)—but the US was able just to shine on the
ICJ like it was some sort of small town speed trap. And,
when the world responded to the arbitrary and capricious
nature of The Hague and Arusha ad hocs with the
ratification of the Treaty of Rome establishing the first
International Criminal Court (also a Hague venue) in 1998,
the US was forced to fall back on its old NATO protection
racket tactics, threatening potential subscribers to the
ICC with aid boycotts and even military reprisals.
So
between 1991 and 1993, with a change in US government
from discreet warrior conservatives (Bush 1 or
Reagan/Bush 3) to brazen yet craven liberals (Clinton/Gore
2), it became necessary to find a politico-rhetorical
hook by which to drag those putative Leftist peace-creeps
and draft-dodgers who opposed all ‘military
incursions’ or ‘police actions’ from Korea
to Vietnam to Chili, Nicaragua, Panama and Grenada to
Iraq 1, and who were all set to start spending that huge
peace dividend from the ‘collapse of Communism’
on faster modems and the defeat of world hunger with Ben
and Jerry’s and socially-responsible mocha lattes
all around—to pull these bleeding sphincters like
Chris Hitchens and Susan Sontag and Marty Sheen and Dutch
Leonard into the run-away train of Western financial and
commercial hegemony that would soon run over and flat
waste our entire suffering planet. That rhetorical
gambit would come to be known as ‘the humanitarians’
genocide’.
Recently,
at Carleton University in Ottawa, to an audience of
journalist (or under-employed Canadian ACTRA day-players
posing as journalists), Kofi Annan said:
There
can be no more important issue, and no more binding
obligation,
than the prevention of genocide.
And
he went on to say:
We
must remember the victims –- the hundreds of
thousands of
men,
women and children abandoned to systematic slaughter
while
the world, which had the capacity to save most of them,
failed
to save more than a handful, forever sullying the
collective
conscience.
We must also help the survivors still struggling with
the
physical and psychological scars. But most of all, we
must
pledge
–- to ourselves as moral beings and to each other as
a
human
community -– to act boldly, including through
military
action
when no other course will work, to ensure that such
a
denial of our common humanity is never allowed to happen
again.
(http://www.rwanda.net/english/News/2004/news032004/news03152004b.htm)
Now,
Annan said all this after it was disclosed earlier this
week that his UN had, back in 1994, squirreled away (or
just refused to acknowledge the existence of) the ‘black
box’ from the murdered Hutu presidents’ French-built
Falcon 50. So this was not so much a heart felt
appeal for the elimination of genocide in our lifetime as
it was a kind of ‘Oops, fucked up again. But we
still feel your pain!’—a Clintonesque apology
for a decade-long cover-up of the UN’s unwavering
support for the real genocidaires, the expansionist RPF
junta in Rwanda.
And
it must be remembered that Annan is the UN power forward
that Albright, Cohen and Clinton got for Boutros Boutros-Ghali. One
of the things got ‘Booboo’ Ghali broomed (Albright
liked to call him ‘Frenchie’, but somehow I
doubt she was talking about how the mustache tickled!)
was his having some unhappy reservations about bombing
the Bosnian Serbs (1994-95) in light of the roles played
by the Serbs (partisans), the Croatians (fascist collabos)
and the Bosnian Muslims (fascist collabos) in WWII, and
how US foreign policy projections in the Balkans were
founded on a fundamental inversion of the historical
record.
Vis
à vis Rwanda, Annan’s predecessor Boutros-Ghali
assured his dis-employment with:
‘The
Rwandan genocide is 100% the responsibility of
the
Americans.’
(see
Robin Philpot’s great book, ‘Ça ne s’est
pas passé comme ça
à
Kigali’—soon to be out in English, one hopes!)
The
‘humanitarians’ genocide’ hook is still
hanging out there, dripping its special kind of bloody
bile. I’ve never seen a hope-to-die dope fiend
get off on the purest stuff as well as some of these
liberally made-over fascoids (these Trots who think brown
makes them look slimmer—or these bloggers who can
burn millions of megs prattling on about Lukacs, Gramsci
and Milosevic before busting out their main move for
support of Israeli settlement expansion!) get hyper-buzzed
on the moral indignation from third-hand stories about
genocide. But today, St. Paddy’s 2004, it seems
that those who were on the hook for genocide, the hookees,
have been replaced in the public’s animus by the
hookers.
President
Milosevic is far from off the hook. Even after
leaving the Tribunal’s effete spirit badly mangled,
if not totally broken out of all functionality, and the
prosecution gibbering about its shitty luck in turning
out its case, and if it could just have a couple more
months, a couple hundred more shill-witnesses, a couple
more bought-off judges; he will almost certainly not be
granted any motion to dismiss, and will have just three
months to prepare his defense against a prosecution case
(as voluminous in quantity as it was devoid of content)
that was ten years in the making and two years in its
indecent exposure. And even if he manages to raise
enough money to engage his fourth legal associate, the
international attorney, Tiphaine Dickson, who has
intimate and intricate experience with both Tribunals,
and even with his own double-keyed office/cell, with
private telephone, computer and fax (whoopee!), at the
old Nazi joint in Scheveningen; any consideration of an
‘equality of arms’ is still a weak joke. But
then no one expected the US and NATO to fight fair!
Case
in point, back to Rwanda :
Check
out the headline on the front page of the 9 March 2004 Le
Monde:
Revelations
on the Attack that Kicked Off the Rwandan Genocide.
The
story tells of a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, and
of his six-year investigation on behalf of the families
of some of the French crew who died when two Soviet-made
SA-16 missiles, traced to a lot sold by the Russians to
the government of Uganda, shot down the plane that was
bringing Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the
Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, back from a
peace conference in Arusha. The judge’s report
contends (what has been widely known) that this military
strike, which went down at 8:20 pm, on the evening of 6
April 1994, and has been consistently banalised by the
media and the ICTR as a ‘plane crash’, an
accident, was, quite the contrary, a targeted
assassination, carried out by the Rwandan Patriotic Front
(often referred to as the ‘Rwandan rebel forces’,
but in fact a wing of the Ugandan Army that had regularly
invaded Rwanda, but came to stay [and not to play] in
October 1990) on orders from their leader and the current
President of Rwanda, General Paul Kagame. (To this
day, Kagame proclaims proudly that Habyarimana’s
murder matters not at all to him, because the genocide of
his Tutsis was planned long before—as far back as
1959, he says; and his predecessor was just another dead
dictator, another dead terrorist! For details, go tohttp://www.rfi.fr/actuchaude/special.asp?m1=1&m2=1&identifiant=3952&ID_sRUB=71&id_dos=0 )
Now,
this is a big story because a lot of those Leftists from
the ‘Stop the Fucking Genocide’ movement had
made a dark and skinny knight out of the US Fifth Army-trained
(at its version of the School of the Americas in Ft
Leavenworth, Kansas) and long-time CIA asset, General
Kagame, and liberating heroes of his RPF ‘contras’. Much
as the Bosnian Muslims were beatified as the hapless
martyrs to the New Fascist Serbs, so the RPF ‘rebels’,
fighting under the relic encrusted rubric of Tutsi
Feudalism, were seen not as the terrorists who in many
and varied ways instigated it, but as the ‘freedom
fighters’ who put a stop to the ‘first genocide
in Africa’. (This last term was embraced with a
special warm sense of relief by the Belgians who, for
being such a small country, came damn close to wiping out
everyone in Central Africa.)
In
a real kid-gloves interview by François Soudan in Jeune
Afrique/L’Intelligent (no 2249), General Kagame is
asked:
JA: The
French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguière is
preparing
to
present his conclusions apropos of the 6th of
April 1994—
the
assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana. According to
sources
close
to the case, his investigation establishes that the
responsibility
for
the attack lies with the RPF, your party. Does that
bother you?
PK: No. Not
me nor anyone else here. It makes no sense.
From
the beginning, before even starting the inquest, this
judge
already
accused the RPF. How do you expect us to take this
guy
seriously,
with such political and ideological presumptions?
JA:
Ten years later, the identities of those who perpetrated
this attack
that
kicked-off the genocide remains a mystery then . . .
PK: Personally,
I don’t know who did it. But I’m not the
best person
to
ask about this matter. Instead, you should ask those
who were here:
the
French, the Belgians, the UN. They were in Kigali at
the time.
Omnipresent.
Even
though he tries to blow off this investigation as an
expression of France’s bias for the ‘extremist
Hutu genocidaires’, you can tell that it’s
sweating him some. His iron-clad executive immunity
as President of Rwanda seems to be a little heavy, a
little tight-fitting, a little chafing in the crotch—even
on this Giocometti figure. And knowing just how
fickle his friends can be has got to give him some real
lower-back pain.
So
as President Milosevic is locked into his office/cell to
prepare the second act of his heroic defense of Balkan
history, President Kagame dips into the emotional mud
that is the junk, the media waste product of humanitarian
genocide freaks, the globs of revisionist snot, with
which he hopes to putty up the cracks in his RPF’s
occultation of Central African history. That the
‘genocide’ at Srebrenica never took place was
evident long before Nice and Co. failed to tie Milosevic
to it in court; that Slobodan Milosevic worked fervently
for peace in his republic of Serbia and through out
Yugoslavia was only reinforced by the prosecution’s
vain attempts to prove otherwise; that the real genocide
in Rwanda did not go down as advertised in The New Yorker
and on CNN is becoming clearer with each ‘independent’
investigation; and that it was not Hutu extremists
killing all Tutsis and moderate Hutus, but Rwandan
nationals (Tutsis, Hutus, and even the few Twa who were
left) unsuccessfully resisting a protracted invasion,
occupation and extermination of their nation, their
revolution and their very lives, by a foreign terrorist
army with its widely and deeply infiltrated collaborators
spreading death and destruction all the way into Congo:
all these resonances between the Balkans and Central
Africa go to make up the historical record.
We
must work (as tirelessly as President Milosevic has)
to preserve, protect and defend this historical truth
against all efforts by the world media and the ad hoc
Tribunals to distort and destroy it, if we are to have
the slightest hope of saving ourselves and our children
from the horrible consumptive illness unto miserable
extinction with which the forces of globalised auto-valorizing
value, of the run-away metastasis of end-stage waste
Capitalism are determined to afflict us.
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