{"id":66554,"date":"2017-06-02T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66554"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T23:54:48","slug":"amnesty-report-america-has-no-moral-right-to-point-fingers-at-any-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/02\/amnesty-report-america-has-no-moral-right-to-point-fingers-at-any-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty Report : America has no moral right to point fingers at any country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

A 44 page report by Amnesty International declares that the US Government gave $1.3billion worth of arms to ISIS in 2016. This comes in the backdrop of Hillary Clinton admitting that the US created Al Qaeda. . $4 trillion dollars later has been spent on this bogus War-on-Terror\/Humanitarian-R2P so far.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw<\/span><\/a>. Both entities are supposed to be targets of the US War on Terror. How does that make sense when the US is allegedly arming, training and even funding these terror movements which are killing even American soldiers? Today, the US Government has become a laughing stock on world stage. On the one hand their envoys are producing the red card to other countries of the world tutoring them on law & order, human rights, good governance and democracy while in reality US has the world’s worst record sheet. US or its officials do not have any moral right to be condemning or ordering any country without addressing America’s crimes and illegalities first. The Nobel Peace Committee must seriously evaluate Obama’s Nobel Peace prize!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Millions killed by US since 1945<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It is said that since 1945 America’s crusade of ‘delivering democracy’ entrenched in “The Plan for a New American Century” (PNAC) has resulted in the deaths of 20 to 30milion lives and uses nomenclatures like Doctrine of Humanitarian Warfare, “right to protect” (R2P), William Blum says since 1945 the US has bombed 23 nations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/united-states-war-crimes\/5561468<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Illegal invasions<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A few of these illegal operations include Korea (1943-1953), Indonesia (1958-1965) where CIA armed, trained and equipped rebels and ousted leader Sukarno to bring dictator Suharto to power. Documents at George Washington University’s National Security Archive confirmed how effectively the Indonesian army used the U.S.-prepared hit list against the Indonesian communist party in 1965-66. From September 8, 1945 to present over 37,000 US troops are positioned at 100 installations. Vietnam (1954-1965) where US began CIA-directed internal sabotage operations setting up puppet Ngo Dinh Diem brought to Vietnam from US as ‘our’ political leader.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

US President Reagan sent 5000 US troops to Grenada on 25 Oct 1983 to assist ‘law & order’ despite UN Security Council disapproval. Between 1988-90 when Panama’s Noriega was indicted for money laundering & drug trafficking President Bush Snr ordered 10,000 US troops already stationed in Panama to support a US-recognized government which UK and France also supported. The invasion was again overruling UN General Assembly resolution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If ‘invasion’ means the seizure of territory by a military force from a government of another country regardless of motivation or justification as claimed by Lance Janda, a military historian at Cameron University in Oklahoma, the US military incursions upon Kuwait, Iraq in 1991, Afghanistan in 2001, UN-backed US led intervention of Somalia in 1992, sending US troops to reinstall Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1994\/5 in Haiti, Bosnia & Kosovo interventions in 1990s with NATO, the 2011 UN approved NATO campaign to oust Gaddafi in Libya qualifies as ‘invasions’.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 1999 Kosovo conflict became the first humanitarian war using NATO to bomb Serbia based on a non-existent genocide. US went to the extent of even substituting the uncooperative UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali with the subservient NATO shill, Kofi Annan (Luciana Bohne)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That Kosovo precedent has paved the way for incursions upon sovereign nations Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Ukraine, Yemen and now it is slowly galvanizing towards Asia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Thom Tillis says US has interfered in 81 elections while the CIA’s list of covert operations is shocking to say the least <\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSmBhj8tmoU&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

US military deployment<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Currently there are said to be over 150,000 US troops stationed in 150 countries under the Status of Forces Agreement. There are approximately 30,000 U.S. troops stationed on Okinawa, Japan since 1960 along with 20,000 family members and civilian government employees.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

US troops are stationed in Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Uganda, Niger, Mali to name a few.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Claiming to be targeting Al Qaeda & ISIS (which now emerges are being funded by the US) airstrikes have been carried out in Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and in Yemen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are as many as 180,000 private military contractors currently believed to be in Iraq, and thousands more in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet, the US envoys preach to Sri Lanka about reducing Sri Lanka’s military presence in its own country!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

US troops immune from prosecution<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The United States reportedly has an agreement with the Afghan government immunizing US contractors from prosecution by Afghanistan. To date, very few private contractors, including private security personnel, have been prosecuted for criminal offenses in Iraq, although allegations of criminal acts are widespread.<\/span><\/p>\n

While US drafts resolutions against other countries in the UN, US makes sure none of its crimes ever goes to any international arbitration. The United States government has consistently opposed an international court that could hold US military and political leaders to a uniform global standard of justice.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Even US peace keeping troops are immune from prosecution by the ICC.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

US troop rapes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A book by historian Miriam Gebhardt claims 190,000 rapes were committed by US troops in WW 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 124-page report, “Booted: Lack of Recourse for Wrongfully Discharged US Military Rape Survivors<\/a>,”<\/b> found that many rape victims suffering from trauma were unfairly discharged for a “personality disorder” or other mental health condition that makes them ineligible for benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gQZO8v0B3Qc<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/05\/19\/us-raped-military-then-punished<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“a female US soldier today is 180 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy”,<\/span><\/b> stated by U.S. California Representative Jane Harmon, March 8, 2010, and Representative Loretta Sanchez, April 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Official U.S. Department of Defence figures reveal, that over 3,000 reported sexual assault cases in 2010 alone,\u00a0estimates that only 20% of these reported incidents have gone to trial, and only 10% lead to conviction. A report commissioned by then-Defence Secretary Leon\u00a0Panetta\u00a0put the actual annual number at 19,000 or more, amounting to 1 in 20 women. Pentagon estimates that the numbers for female sexual assault cases have further risen by 35% since 2010, from 19,300 service members believed to be victims that year to 26,000 in 2012. The DoD estimates that approximately 19,000 service members every year\u2014over 50 per day\u2014are raped, sexually assaulted or harassed. Soldiers are more likely to be sexually assaulted by their own comrades than to be killed or wounded by hostile forces. https:\/\/www.asafeworldforwomen.org\/global-news\/n-america\/usa\/4925-sexual-assault-in-military.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Do American envoys not know of these statistics and criminal details and do they not realize that people are actually laughing at America when their envoys act like mother superiors!<\/span><\/p>\n

US ‘collateral damage’ murders<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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US war ‘mistakes’<\/b> are put down as collateral damage. Recall U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. The commander of U.S. forces there, Gen. John Campbell, said the hospital in the northern city of Kunduz had been struck accidentally.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 864,000 tons of bombs were dropped during Operation Rolling Thunder alone (Vietnam)<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 13, 1991, during the first Gulf War, U.S. planes bombed a shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, killing 408 civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Kosovo war, NATO planes fired on a train of refugees fleeing the conflict — 73 people were killed. The ‘mistake’ was acknowledged as “mistakenly dropped a bomb on a civilian vehicle.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Also in 1999 five U.S. guided bombs hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese reporters. President Bill Clinton apologized for the bombing, saying it was accidental.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2010 – two U.S. aircraft attacked a wedding party in central Uruzgan province, killing 48 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 15 October 2010 to kill one man US fired missiles that killed 128 people, 13 of them children in Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2016\/10\/15\/us-must-answer-war-crimes-in-middle-east.html<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

US drone killings<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

According to Airwars, a British monitoring group, alleged civilian casualties linked to U.S. strikes in Syria and Iraq have soared to 1,472 in March 2017. In March 2016, 196 civilians were reported killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

US war crimes and violation of Geneva Conventions<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kropfpolisci.com\/international.law.mandel.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel covers the illegal war on Iraq in 2003, invading a nation despite no evidence of weapons of mass destruction and neither had Iraq even threatened the US or its Allies to justify self-defense. Such a war of aggression was an international crime for which Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, General Franks, Susan Rice, Tony Blair, Jack Straw et all are guilty for the murder of thousands of people, grievous injuries to thousands more<\/span><\/p>\n

THE international criminal court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s office says “Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of Afghanistan between 1 May 2003 and 31 December 2014,” The response by the US State Dept was “The United States is deeply committed to complying with the law of war, and we have a robust national system of investigation and accountability that more than meets international standards,” (Elizabeth Trudeau) However US is not a member of the ICC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

US prisoner abuse came to light with Abu Ghraib prison for captured Iraqis from 2003 to 2006. Graphic photos depicting guards abusing detainees emerge in 2003. The prison held as many as 3,800 detainees. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba’s report covered these abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Positioning a naked detainee on a box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Writing “I am a Rapest (sic)” on the leg of a detainee accused of rape, and then photographing him naked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female soldier pose for a picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 <\/span>Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0US fake propaganda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/span><\/i> reported that PR firm, Bell Pottinger was tasked to produce fake Al Qaeda propaganda films and received $540m\u00a0between May 2007 and December 2011. According to former video editor Martin Wells of Bell Pottinger, these videos were planted during raids and shown. http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/us-government-pentagon-fake-al-qaeda-propganda-videos-a7348371.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The US Government through statements by the envoys or through numerous NGOs that it funds chides countries about treating its minorities. This is the same country that carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people in late 1920s and 1930s (Mexican repatriation)<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpts from book The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables By Benjamin Ginsberg<\/span><\/p>\n

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The military destabilization of sovereign states has led to the forceful surrender of sovereignty to secure globalization through trade pacts beneficial to Western corporates only to usher global neoliberalism and to secure the world’s economic power under their complete control. All of America’s military\/humanitarian interventions have not produced a single success story. Instead, death, destruction, chaos, anarchy, tidal waves of refugees, displaced have arisen.<\/span><\/p>\n

While FBI is accusing Russians of interfering in US elections \u2013 the US is believed to have interfered in at least 45 elections http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/388500\/election-interference-us-45-countries\/<\/span><\/a> and attempted to overthrow at least 50 democratically elected leaders while William Blum’s Masterlist of US regime changes is shocking http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list-of-u-s-regime-changes\/5400829<\/span><\/a> \u00a0Sri Lanka needs to be added to the list<\/span><\/p>\n

Too often US envoys jump to make statements following melodrama by human rights activists funded by US interest groups but when US drones kill civilian it’s a case of ‘we are investigating’ ‘sorry’ or chapter is simply closed as ‘collateral damage’.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lists of international and even domestic violations by the US Governments benchmarked against the high moral ground public and government officials make are too long to list. However, what is shocking is that neither the US Government nor its envoys feel any shame to preach knowing the scale of the crimes committed by their governments, troops and intelligence outfits covertly and overtly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US envoys should not throw stones from glass houses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/obama-raises-american-hypocrisy-to-a-higher-level\/24019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/08\/02\/the_hypocrisy_of_american_exceptionalism_missing_the_big_picture_of_the_dncs_alleged_election_meddling\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge A 44 page report by Amnesty International declares that the US Government gave $1.3billion worth of arms to ISIS in 2016. This comes in the backdrop of Hillary Clinton admitting that the US created Al Qaeda. . $4 trillion dollars later has been spent on this bogus War-on-Terror\/Humanitarian-R2P so far. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw. Both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}