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UN walking into unknown terrain

16 May 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Rizwan Ul- Huq, Khulna
16 May 2004, 18:00 PM
History repeats itself and the burning example is the US-led alliance which has to suffer dire consequences in the long run in Iraq. I have seen how brutally a group of beasts was torturing the war prisoners in Iraq. Where are the UN and its human rights, Geneva Convention and Amnesty International? In Iraq, US Yankees are torturing the naked , helpless prisoners and they don't bother about the conventions or treaties. Obviously, it is a conspicuous violation of human rights. Then, the UN, are you deaf and dumb, lame and blind? Can't you do anything there? You can put restriction on Saddam's war-torn Iraq. You can ban the 'Taliban government.' (Saddam was a tyrant ruler and 'Taliban' was a fundamentalist state.) then why not the US? Today everywhere it is fighting against the general Iraqi people, threatening Syria and Iran, killing poor Afghan people. It also used harmful precision bombs and cluster bombs on general Afghan and Iraqi people in the recent wars.

Probably, you can't do anything. You talk about democracy and human development. What kind of development, is it to kill innocent people? What kind of democracy is it ? Rantissi is dead, Arafat is passing his days in front of the door of death . By whom? certainly Israel. Everything is going on calmly and smoothly where you (UN) have nothing to do. Then what is the justification of your existence?

Now, I believe that the UN is not a 'United Nations'. Rather it is an association for toast and tea, coffee and Pepsi cans. It is an association to pass bill against Arafat, to say 'yes' in favour of Israel (By giving a veto to the condemnation bill). The US used its veto power and dismissed the 'condemnation bill' which was submitted by the Muslim nations to condemn the killing of the physically disabled Hamas chief. The UN was established to save mankind from another world war but it has already begun in a new form. It is a new kind of war for (oil) and money. S Korea, Poland, Japan, Thailand. Australia, the UK and the US and many other states are playing the role of conquerors in Iraq. It is certainly a burning question as to how many countries you need ( in the US-led alliance) to declare it a new kind of world war.

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The UN has failed against a monster. A monster which believes in democracy (!), which does not want to harm, any human being (!), preserves human rights (?), replaces the tyrant suppresser (though it is itself a suppresser) and kills the innocent people to save the world !

The UN mission is lost in the maze of global politics dominated by the only superpower.