blessed britons

In 1982, Britain's treatment of the Chagossians was being contrasted in the United Nations with its expenditure that year of £2 billion defending the rights of the Falkland Islanders. The Falklands and the Chagos each had a population of 2,000 British citizens. One population was white, the other black. While the Argentine invasion of the Falklands was furiously resisted by British forces sent 8,000 miles for the purpose, the American invasion of Diego Garcia was accommodated in every detail by the British government, which even arranged for the inhabitants' expulsion.

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* One quarter of the aid [provided by rich countries] – $20bn a year – funds expensive and often ineffective western consultants, research and training.

* In the UK, for example, almost half of TA spending goes on consultants and other experts, the vast majority of them British.

* A typical cost of an expatriate consultant will be in the region of $200,000 a year. According to the OECD, in typical cases more than one third of this is spent on school fees and child allowances – spending which would not be needed if local consultants were used.

— Real Aid II

genocide

unacknowledged genocides

Submitted by antarchi on January 21, 2007 - 03:43.

Genocide...

“...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

from The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article 2

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ethnic cleansing under NATO guidance

Submitted by antarchi on August 24, 2008 - 23:42.

Following NATO's victory over Yugoslavia and occupation of Kosovo, there then transpired the "largest ethnic cleaning in the Balkans [in proportionate terms]" (Jan Oberg), with some 150,000 Serbs put to flight along with thousands of Roma—with thousands of Roma suffering the loss of houses torched by the returning Kosovo Albanians. All this was done under NATO authority.

— Edward Herman: The New York Times on the Kosovo Crisis

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forgetting gospic

Submitted by antarchi on August 23, 2008 - 17:32.

In late September 1991, over 120 Gospic Serbs, including prominent professors and judges, were abducted and murdered, their bodies destroyed or hidden.

...this was the first massacre carried out as a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing, designed to frighten the Serb population of Croatia into fleeing. Yet it was ignored by the world's media. The name of Gospic never became part of the litany of atrocities repeated by news media covering Yugoslav wars.

— Diana Johnstone, Fool's Crusade

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expropriation and removal of the poor

Submitted by antarchi on June 29, 2008 - 02:33.

In 1895, Theodor Herzl, Zionism's chief prophet, confided in his diary that he did not favour sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to "try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."

— Jonathan Cooke

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moral obligation to intervene

Submitted by antarchi on April 27, 2008 - 12:32.

Two years later, a Commons Select Committee would conclude: ‘Britain had a legal right to intervene [in the Turkish assault on Cyprus], she had a moral obligation to intervene, she had the military capacity to intervene. She did not intervene for reasons which the government refuses to give.’

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free passage to attila

Submitted by antarchi on April 27, 2008 - 12:29.

The reality is that Britain had both the means and the obligation to stop the Turkish assault on Cyprus. After first ensuring Turkish hostility to the Greek majority, it had imposed a Treaty of Guarantee on the island, depriving it of true independence, for its own selfish ends: the retention of large military enclaves at its sovereign disposal. Now, when called on to abide by the treaty, it crossed its arms and gave free passage to the modern Attila, claiming that it was helpless – a nuclear power – to do otherwise.

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