blood of Asians , Africans, Australians, indegenous
Americans in the past five hundred years and now they
are the civilised people of the world. Their
barbareous acts knew no limits. They are now trying to
continue same in the name of war against terror. In
the past 500 years it is the WASPs who had been the
greatest terrorists.
Hisotry needs to be rewritten highlighting the
crimes and atrocities that they perpetrated on
innocent people of the rest of the world.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
> *NATO Genocide in Afghanistan*
>
> JURIST Contributing Editor Ali
> Khan<http://washburnlaw.edu/faculty/khan-ali.php>of
> Washburn
> University School of Law says that in the name of
> the "war of
> terror," NATO forces in Afghanistan are committing
> genocide by
> systematically hunting down and destroying the
> Taliban, a puritanical
> Islamic group, contrary to the terms of the
> Convention on the Prevention and
> Punishment of the Crime of Genocide...
> ------------------------------
>
> *S*loganeers, propagandists and politicians often
> use the word "genocide"
> in ways that the law does not permit. But rarely is
> the crime of genocide
> invoked when Western militaries murder Muslim
> groups. This essay argues that
> the internationally recognized crime of genocide
> applies to the intentional
> killings that NATO troops commit on a weekly basis
> in the poor villages and
> mute mountains of Afghanistan to destroy the
> Taliban, a puritanical Islamic
> group. NATO combat troops bombard and kill people in
> Taliban enclaves and
> meeting places. They also murder defenseless Afghan
> civilians. The
> dehumanized label of "Taliban" is used to cloak the
> nameless victims of NATO
> operations. Some political opposition to this
> practice is building in NATO
> countries, such as Canada, where calls are heard to
> withdraw troops from
> Afghanistan or divert them to non-combat tasks.
>
> *Dehumanization*
>
> In almost all NATO nations, the Taliban have been
> completely dehumanized — a
> historically-tested signal that perpetrators of the
> crime of genocide carry
> unmitigated intentions to eradicate the dehumanized
> group. Politicians, the
> armed forces, the media, and even the general public
> associate in the West
> the Taliban with irrational fanatics, intolerant
> fundamentalists, brutal
> assassins, beheaders of women, bearded extremists,
> and terrorists. This
> luminescent negativity paves the way for aggression,
> military operations,
> and genocide. Promoting the predatory doctrine of
> collective self-defense,
> killing the Taliban is celebrated as a legal virtue.
> To leave the Taliban in
> control of Afghanistan, says NATO, is to leave a
> haven for terrorism.
>
> A similar dehumanization took place in the 16th and
> 17th centuries when NATO
> precursors occupied the Americas to purloin land and
> resources. The killings
> of native inhabitants were extensive and heartless.
> Thomas Jefferson, the
> noble author of the Declaration of Independence,
> labeled Indians as
> "merciless savages." President Andrew Jackson
> pontificated: "What good man
> would prefer a country covered with forests and
> ranged by a few thousand
> savages to our extensive Republic, studded with
> cities, towns, and
> prosperous farms." Promoting the predatory doctrine
> of discovery, the United
> States Supreme Court later ratified the pilgrims'
> crimes, holding that
> "discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the
> Indian title (to land).
> ([T]he Indians were fierce savages...To leave them
> in possession of their
> country was to leave the country a wilderness."
>
> The predators have not changed their stripes a bit.
> They come, they
> demonize, they obliterate. They do all this in the
> name of superior
> civilization.
>
> *The Facts*
>
> The NATO website lists its killings in Afghanistan.
> These killings are also
> reported in the world media, often with a shameless
> tone of gratitude as if
> NATO forces are engaged in wiping out cannibals. In
> 2007 alone, NATO
> helicopters and precision guided munitions bombed
> and killed over six
> thousand "Taliban." Read the following recent
> attacks, which the NATO itself
> reports, and smell the scent of genocide:
>
> - On January 19, 2008, NATO launched a preemptive
> strike relying on
> "credible intelligence" that the Taliban were
> planning to mass on a NATO
> base. The attack killed two dozen "insurgents" in
> the Watapoor District of
> Kunar Province, though the exact number of
> casualties could not be confirmed
> because of the rough mountainous region. The
> world media reported that
> numerous civilians were killed and 25 bodies were
> buried in just one mass
> grave.
>
> - On January 12, 2008, NATO forces conducted what
> it calls a "precise
> strike" on a compound in Kapsia Province
> targeting Taliban leaders. NATO
> claimed that the civilians were cleared from the
> compound before the attack.
> The claim is absurd because any removal of
> civilians from the compound would
> have alerted the battle-hardened Taliban that an
> enemy attack was imminent.
>
> - On September 20, 2007, NATO forces launched
> "Operation Palk Wahel"
> to kill and remove the Taliban from an area in
> the Upper Gereshk Valley.
> Numerous civilians were killed. The evidence of
> the genocide was so obvious
> that NATO admitted that it "was unaware of
> civilians in the vicinity of the
> target and unfortunately it appears that a number
> of non-combatants were
> caught in the attack and killed."
>
> *The Law*
>
> The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
> the Crime of Genocide
> (entered into force, 1951) is binding on all states
> including the 26 member
> states of NATO. The Genocide Convention is jus
> cogens, the law from which no
> derogation is allowed. It provides no exceptions for
> any nation or any
> organization of nations, such as the United Nations
> or NATO, to commit
> genocide. Nor does the Convention allow any
> exceptions to genocide "whether
> committed in time of peace or in time of war." Even
> traditional self-defense
> - let alone preemptive self-defense, a deceptive
> name for aggression -
> cannot be invoked to justify or excuse the crime of
> genocide.
>
> In murdering the Taliban, NATO armed forces
> systematically practice on a
> continual basis the crime of genocide that consists
> of three constituent
> elements - act, intent to destroy, and religious
> group. The crime, as
> defined in the Convention, is analyzed below:
>
> 1. Act. The Convention lists five acts, each of
> which qualifies as
> genocide. NATO forces in Afghanistan are
> committing three of the five acts.
> They are killing members of the Taliban. They are
> causing serious bodily
> harm to members of the Taliban. They are
> deliberately inflicting on the
> Taliban conditions of life calculated to bring
> about their physical
> destruction in whole or in part. Any of these
> three acts committed one time
> constitutes the crime of genocide. NATO combat
> troops have been committing,
> and continue to commit, these acts through
> multiple means and weapons.
>
> 2. Intent to Destroy. The crime of genocide is a
> crime of intent. It
> must be shown that NATO combat troops and the
> high command ordering these
> troops carry the requisite intent to destroy the
> Taliban. Mere negligent
> killings do not qualify as genocide. The
> statements of NATO's
> Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and those
> of NATO spokesmen leave no
> doubt that the NATO conducts military operations
> to
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