UNSC sanction on Saudi charity

By OH Kabir, Dhaka
23 February 2004, 18:00 PM
We are puzzled to read in some of our English dailies that on the recommendation of the US the United Nations Security Council has imposed sanction on four branches of a Saudi Arabian charitable orgainisation, Al-Haramain Foundation, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya and Tanzania for its alleged involvement with al-Qaeda.

How funny it is that the UNSC could set aside important, urgent and burning issues like oppression and suppression of the unarmed Palestinians by Israel and US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and dance to the tune of the White House on a petty matter like sanction on a Saudi Arabian charity.

Earlier on the dictation of the White House the UNSC had imposed economic sanction on Iraq for 12 years. And when Iraq languished for want of food and medicine, the US itself invaded and occupied the weak and sick Iraq telling lies to the world that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction.

We wonder if the moribund UNO still has the courage to face the US. If not, let the Afro-Asian countries form a parallel AAUN (Afro-Asian United Nations) with headquarters in New Delhi or Cairo and check and balance the sinister designs of the US-UK dominated UNO for protecting billions of people from the colonialism of the US.