A Christmas Letter to Amnesty International
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By 14 year old member of Red Youth. Red Youth.
Working Kind of Green
Sunday, Dec 22, 2013
Editor's Note: As long as we have 14 year olds in this world with this depth of understanding, there is hope for the future. This young man writes:
"As
a student who researches extensively on world events trying to see
society’s big picture, I cannot help but be infuriated at how openly
supporters of Amnesty International operate within the school community,
spreading bias propaganda and promoting ill-minded teachings, without
being adequately challenged" |
- Les Blough, Editor
Axis of Logic
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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. - Kim Jong-il (1942-2011)
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A 14 year old cadre of Red Youth has written and posted the following letter to his school who have instituted an Amnesty International club for the students. Our comrade, in a short and precise letter exposes the sheer hypocrisy of AI and delivers a challenge to his school, peers and the local AI Club to justify their peddling of imperialist propaganda. The letter is reproduced exactly as it was composed save the name of the school and comrade:
Dear TGS Amnesty International Club,
I am writing this letter in
sheer disgust at the ignorance of xxxx Schools Amnesty International
club portrays. Presentations were carried out throughout the school
promoting the club and issuing out awareness material to other students.
Students were intimidated into signing cards and letters expressing
their support for the supposed ‘political prisoners’ locked up in
certain nations across the world. The information given to the students
about the prisoners was extremely limited and bias. However, my argument
is for the millions of oppressed people across the world suffering at
the behest of the rich and powerful nations on whose behalf A. I.
operates and from where it is based. Why focus on a few individuals and
then ignore all the crimes committed by these powerful states? I will be
expressing points which will hopefully be answered by the group.
I
have no doubt that Amnesty International contains a great number of
well-meaning supporters, people with genuine compassion. It is from this
standpoint that I express my outrage at the continual stream of lies,
hypocrisy and war propaganda that emanates from publications and
spokespersons of Amnesty International, hood-winking its members,
volunteers and the general public alike into supporting acts of
genocide, ethnic cleansing and regime change throughout the world.
We
all remember the horrendous war on Libya which resulted in thousands of
innocent civilians being killed, beautiful infrastructure being smashed
(including the Sahara Aquifers) and blown up and a secular and
progressive regime being expunged. And let’s not forget how we all
witnessed the rape and lynching by mercenaries and foreign terrorists of
the much loved Leader of that country, Colonel Gaddafi, on our
computers, mobiles and television screens like some kind of sadistic
game that would be familiar to see on horror films like Saw and Hostel.
And which ‘Human Rights’ organization really pushed for regime change in
that country? Of course, Amnesty International.
Now, several months
on, cases are emerging of Libyan cities and towns such as Tawergha, Bani
Waled and Sirte being persecuted and violently terrorised due to the
fact that the majority of people living there were black. In one town,
Tawergha, some 40,000 plus black people were force to flee in one day as
they were butchered and terrorised by the rebel militias and gangs
provided with NATO air cover. On the 25th February this year, a man was
reported on the BBC news saying:
“We had 70-80 people from Chad
working for our company. They were cut dead with pruning shears and
axes, attackers saying: ‘You are providing troops for Gaddafi.’ The
Sudanese were also massacred. We saw it for ourselves.”
This is just
one of the hundreds of cases being released clearly showing, with great
and detailed evidence, that the rebels, supported by Amnesty
International, NATO, etc, were human rights abusers on a massive scale.
Surely that can’t be right? A Human Rights defender siding with NATO, a
Military Alliance which has killed, massacred and terrorised millions in
its time, to help bring about regime change for a handful of racist
thugs. So exposed was the stance of Amnesty on the Libyan massacre that
its spokesperson retracted her earlier statements about Gadaffi using
foreign mercenaries to fight for him. However this confession of course
was never broadcasted by the mass media which is in the service of this
same NATO war machine. But the lies spouted at the time about the Libyan
army were enough to provide the cover and false legitimacy for the NATO
saturation bombing which brought the war lords and racist terrorist
gangs to power and massacred thousands of Libyan troops and civilians.
You might argue that this is just one lonely example which can’t prove
anything but try telling millions of Libyans that.
Moving on.
Now,
the organisation has moved onto Syria, another target of the West. What a
coincidence. Amnesty International is constantly promoting the rebels
there (which have very close links to Al-Qaida and other Islamic
extremist groups) to topple another progressive, developing and secular
state. Their excuse, very much like the excuse they used in Libya, is
that the President, Basher Al Assad, is a ‘dictator murdering his own
people’. Is Assad just meant to let a group of local and foreign
terrorists, funded and armed by real dictators in the region, namely
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain, to come and attack his people? And if
Assad was such an evil tyrant with no desire but wealth and exploitation
of his people, why would over 15 million Syrians, over 90% of the
electorate, vote for his new reform plans earlier this year? The Bathe
party in Syria heads a broad coalition of all the very many ethnic
groups and confessions of the nation, defending them all against an
array of extremist Sunni terrorist gangs seeking succour from rich and
powerful foreign nations.
Many human rights abuses are being carried
out slyly right here under our noses in Britain and other Western
‘democratic’ countries.
Many Muslim immigrants and asylum seekers,
escaping from the very war zones created by western military
interventions, are inhumanely harassed and molested as soon as they pass
through the border crossings, on spurious claims of suspicion of
terrorism or other crimes even though most are women and young children.
They are made to live in very harsh conditions, including internment
camps, insufficient for raising a family. They are given ill-paid jobs
which require long hours of work for a minimum wage. They often resort
to crime to survive, which lands them in jail.
Can it be just that
50% of the USA’s prison population is black, and that Native Americans
have never been compensated for the massive genocide perpetrated against
them? Can it be just that the US, the richest nation in the World, has a
bigger prison population than any other country, both proportionately
and absolutely? The American penal system incarcerated over 5 million of
its citizens during the 1930?s and over 2.5 million today. Why were
there no cards for these victims? Why were there no cards for today’s
tens of millions of the descendents of tens of millions of African
slaves who form the vast majority of the impoverished in the USA and to
this day have no rights to medicare and many of whom end up languishing
in the Jails of the USA?
Police brutality and oppression is a regular
experience for black people in the US, as well as national minorities
throughout Europe. Earlier last week, on December 13th, Chicago police
killed 38 year old Phillip Coleman, who was, according to family members
and neighbours, having a nervous breakdown and behaving erratically.
Police subdued him with a taser when he was arrested and again after he
arrived at Roseland Hospital. He died later on that day in Roseland.
Phillip Coleman’s sister, Jacqueline, told the Sun-Times,
“Phillip was not treated justly, he was treated like an insect!”
This
is just one example of the cruel acts the American state perpetrates on
its own citizens, whilst claiming to be a father figure of democracy
and freedom.
I recall that one of the cards which was given to us to
sign, was for a prisoner in China called Chen Guangcheng, who was locked
up for being too ‘outspoken’ in his beliefs. It is now reported that he
has fled to the USA with his family. Say no more. However, my point is
that even after all the evidence lying on the table, proving how the
West, namely the USA and its puppets or lap dogs including Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Israel, etc commit the most atrocious crimes against humanity
and act like ‘police of the world’, Amnesty International still points
its longest finger at the People’s Republic of China for being an abuser
of human rights. But as I already explained, it is the USA that has the
largest prison population in the world, both absolutely and as a
percentage of its population. Where’s the card for Bradley Manning?
Wheres the card for Mumia Abu Jamal? Where’s the card for Julian
Assange? Where are all the cards for the inmates of Guantanamo Bay?
Where all the cards for the thousands of black people being imprisoned
in America and being lynched in Libya as we speak by these supposed
‘Freedom Fighters’?
China is one of the two nations to veto a war on
Syria at the UN Security council. It can see how regime change there
will lead to a catastrophe even greater than the one in Libya. And for
this reason and others it is attacked extensively by the West, using any
means necessary, including Human Rights organisations like Amnesty
International to pick out mole hills there and to make them into
mountains.
At the Nuremburg Trials after World War 2, it was made
very clear that the highest crime of all was an unprovoked war waged by
one country against another. For good reason you might say. There can be
no greater denial of human rights than War itself: millions are
terrorised, displaced, killed violently or by secondary causes,
wrongfully imprisoned, denied the means of sustenance and any security.
Yet it is Western countries that have been the main instigators and
protagonists of these wars yet all the claimed justifications for them
from holding WMD’s to humanitarian intervention, stopping massacres,
fighting terrorism, supporting democracy, removing dictators, protecting
women, fighting drugs etc etc etc etc have all been exposed to
progressive humanity as massive lies: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Gaza, Libya, Syria, the Congo are the most well known and deadly. Where
are the cards for the millions of the victims of these wars, the
millions who have been denied the most basic human rights of all? To
Life? To Peace? To Security? To a Home? To Food? To the very basic needs
for sustaining life? Surely, if Amnesty International was a real
fighter for human rights these matters would be at the top of the agenda
and determine the cards we would be signing? Instead, so as to prepare
the unsuspecting public for the next criminal war, it selectively
chooses only the countries to be targeted, demonising their systems so
that the public at worse will turn their heads the other way after the
start of the military aggression. It is no surprise therefore that the
“human rights” victims highlighted by A. I. are those working under the
auspices of Western powers, selling out their countries’ independence to
them. However, in the West we have no qualms about locking up and
throwing away the key in those cases of betrayal to foreign countries.
As
a student who researches extensively on world events trying to see
society’s big picture, I cannot help but be infuriated at how openly
supporters of Amnesty International operate within the school community,
spreading bias propaganda and promoting ill-minded teachings, without
being adequately challenged. They ignore the fact that A.I. promotes a
cruel system, providing it with the legitimacy required for its criminal
wars, global economic inequality and for the exploitation of 99% of
world’s people. Surely the largest denial of human rights is that over 2
billion people (1/3 of the world’s population) have to survive on less
than $2 a day? As a consequence the World health Organisation has stated
that over 5 million children below the age of 5 die every year from
malnutrition alone. Where are the cards for these lost souls?
I really do hope you can come back on the points I have raised.
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Red Youth is a revolutionary youth organisation in the UK. We were established early in 2010 by young members and supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist - Leninist). We are active in a number of places across Britain with members as young as 14. If you'd like to get involved, get in touch!
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