Instead of analyzing its own mistakes, the international press has gone silent. The errors and consequences of malfeasance are too great to admit. Mwenda goes even deeper with his accusations.
For example, beginning mid last year, the international press (largely western based or managed) has launched a jihad against the government of Kagame in Rwanda. The ammunition for the this jihad is a shoddy and doggy report by a UN "panel of experts" that alleges Rwanda to be training and arming M23 rebels fighting the government of President Joseph Kabila of DR Congo.
In the "Hijacking of Human Rights," Chris Hedges exposes the underbelly of so-called human rights organizations that are in reality "propagandists for pre-emptive war and apologists for empire."
The current business of human rights means human rights for some and not for others. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, the Peace Alliance, and Citizens for Global Solutions are all guilty of buying into the false creed that U.S. military force can be deployed to promote human rights. None of these groups stood up to oppose the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, as if pre-emptive war is not one of the grossest violations of human rights.
Human Rights Watch is the principal drumbeater for a proxy war in the Great Lakes region. The first world members of the Security Council have decided to send African brother against African brother to do the dirty work in the name of a deceptive "human rights" agenda.
As Hedges writes:
The creed of "humanitarian intervention" means, for many, shedding tears over the "right" victims. Its supporters lobby for the victims in Darfur and ignore the victims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Gaza. They denounce the savagery of the Taliban but ignore the savagery we employ in our offshore penal colonies or our drone-infested war zones. They decry the enslavement of girls in brothels in India or Thailand but not the slavery of workers in our produce fields or our prisons.
Hedges might have added to his analysis that in the world of Human Rights Watch (HRW), the "right" victims are not the ethnic Tutsis who have suffered genocide and annihilation for decades. The gospel according to HRW has it completely wrong.
Mwenda's article cautions "that fighting a counter insurgency in a country that is densely forested, with a bad terrain, and speaking a language alien to the imported brigades is complete folly."
The M23 knows every nook and cranny in eastern DRC and has an overwhelming tactical advantage. They defeated the Congolese Army on its own turf. When the Tanzanians and South Africans are defeated by the M23, as they most certainly will be, the narrative will likely morph back to the previous narrative that Rwanda is behind it all.
Perhaps this is why Rwanda, as a temporary member of the Security Council, surprisingly signed onto Resolution 2098. The blaming took its toll on the tiny country still struggling to recover from the events of April 1994.
The press and "human rights" groups will embrace the western perpetrators of violence initiated under a false narrative that serves the oppressive government of DRC and exploitive international interests, rather that remembering, as Hedges says, "that human rights mean defending all who are vulnerable, persecuted and unjustly despised."
Where is the outcry from "human rights" groups on behalf of the moer than 3,000 Africans about to be sacrificed by the UN Security Council for western interests?
The UN has effectively authorized a massacre from the safety of a New York City skyscraper.
History repeats and repeats.
On April 14, 1994, the United Nations stood by with the tacit support of the Clinton administration as Rwanda descended into the third circle of hell and up to one million ethnic Tutsis were murdered by the militia now operating as the FDLR in eastern DRC. The congolese army and the United Nations have done nothing to eliminate this militia of genocidaires.
Despite admitting in a 2000 report that "[UN] council members acknowledged its main finding that their governments lacked the political will to stop the massacres," it seems the UN has no real remorse when it comes to sacrificing African lives to political expediency.
The grim month of April is here once again. Nineteen years ago the world stood by and watched the unthinkable become reality.
Are we willing to force change? Or are we content with pitting brother against brother in Africa as expendable commodities, while we shed tears over the "right" victims?
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