VS gaat moorden middels drones opvoeren……….

Twee berichten van Anti-Media, één van ANTIWAR en één  van Common Dreams, de eerste van 16 september jl. en de tweede van 22 september jl., die één gezamenlijk onderwerp hebben: de uitbreiding van het aantal aanvallen middels drones op verdachten. Dat ‘verdachten’ geeft al aan waar het hier om draait: standrechtelijke executies, waar geen rechter aan te pas is gekomen, ofwel terreuraanslagen, waarbij godbetert meer dan 90% van de vermoorde slachtoffers niet eens verdacht was, m.n. vrouwen en kinderen……..

Zoals Jason Ditz bericht: de CIA wil autoriteit van Trump om op eigen houtje drone-aanvallen uit te voeren in Afghanistan en zal die waarschijnlijk krijgen, nog ‘een klein geluk’ dat het Pentagon tegen deze macht voor de CIA is, daar men vreest dat dit het werk van de militairen in Afghanistan nog verder zal bemoeilijken……

Zowel het Pentagon als de CIA hebben een aanzienlijke voorraad drones opgebouwd en willen meer bevoegdheid deze in te zetten, zoals in Afghanistan…… Tja, je hebt ‘wat’ drones en daar wil je ‘uiteraard’ mee kunnen moorden (voorheen moest men eerst toestemming vragen aan de president, zoals eerder bij ‘vredesduif’ Obama, die een groot aantal van deze moorden goedkeurde).

Zoals gezegd, de verwachting is dat de enorme ploert en CIA directeur Pompeo toestemming zal krijgen van Trump…….

Het tweede bericht is van Jake Johnson en hij bericht over het voornemen van Trump om alle beperkingen op het gebruik van drones te schrappen……… Daarmee zal het hek geheel van de dam zijn en zal het aantal dodelijke burgerslachtoffers (moorden) enorm zal toenemen……..

Zeke Johnson, directeur van Amnesty Internationaal in de VS, stelde in de New York Times dat de beperkingen op drone-aanslagen, zoals die tot nu toe gelden, al een aanfluiting waren voor de mensenrechten, maar dat met het nieuwe voornemen van Trump, het aantal moorden enorm zal stijgen……. Tja, het militair-industrieel complex, dat winsten maakt die nooit eerder gezien zijn, heeft belang bij deze moorden, daar die het terrorisme zullen doen toenemen, ook in de EU. Hierbij moet wel worden aangetekend, dat zoals gewoonlijk VS terreur, met hulp van oorlogshond NAVO, de oorzaak is van alle terreur in de EU, VS en NAVO terreur die tevens enorme vluchtelingenstromen op gang brachten………

Tot nu toe werd o.a. door Obama gesteld, dat de te vermoorden personen, een directe ‘bedreiging’ vormden voor de VS (ha! ha! ha! ha! De enige echte bedreiging voor de VS is de VS zelf!!). Met het voornemen van Trump (reken maar dat hij tekent!) zullen ook mensen worden vermoord, die geen bedreiging vormen voor de VS…….. Reken maar dat in het vervolg figuren als Assange en Snowden (vergeet niet: ex-CIA!) in het vervolg hun ‘klokken luiden’ niet zullen overleven…….

Daarover gesproken, wat zullen landen doen, die achter de VS staan, als de VS een dergelijke aanslag in hun land zal plegen…….. Ach, het antwoord is duidelijk: zo’n moord wordt dan afgedaan als een ongeluk en de drone zal op zeker niet uit de lucht worden geschoten, immers als het om de VS gaat, wordt alles toegestaan, ook al weet men, dat de VS in feite de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is……

Hoe lang laat men de VS nog begaan, voordat deze verenging van terreurstaten voor het Internationaal Strafhof zal worden gedaagd…??!!! En dan durft men de VS nog een democratische rechtsstaat te noemen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Overigens heeft het Pentagon al toestemming om op eigen houtje meer militairen in te zetten in landen waar de VS bezig is met illegale acties of illegale oorlogen….. Dit bleek onlangs nog eens, toen niemand wist hoeveel VS militairen er in Afghanistan vechten……. Zogenaamde deskundigen als BNR rollade Hammelburg, durfden te zeggen dat dit normaal is, daar je altijd troepen hebt die moeten worden afgelost, maar niet meteen weg zijn, als ‘de verse troepen’ zijn gearriveerd…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Trump die intussen schreeuwt als Adolf Hitler en Goebbels, is in feite een marionet geworden voor een militaire junta die in het Witte Huis is getrokken…….

CIA Wants Authority to Conduct Drone Strikes in Afghanistan

September 16, 2017 at 8:33 am

Written by Jason Ditz

The Pentagon fears US troops would face backlash from CIA drone attacks.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — The expansion of US military operations around the drone has coincided with the Pentagon having an increasingly large drone arsenal to carry out unmanned airstrikes around the world. That’s given them an opportunity to massively increase spending on drone warfare.

But the CIA also invested massively in drone warfare, and officials are looking for more opportunities to use those drones from extrajudicial killings. This has led CIA Director Mike Pompeo to press President Trump for authority to conduct drone strikes in Afghanistan.

Military drone strikes are common in Afghanistan, and Pentagon officials aren’t clear what the CIA thinks their drones can do that the existing drones aren’t already doing. On top of that, since the CIA declines comment on their strikes, the Pentagon is worried CIA strikes that kill civilians will lead to blowback against US ground troops.

The CIA doesn’t appear to have good answers for the Pentagon’s concerns, so much as they have a lot of drones they want to get more use out of. Pompeo has bragged that President Trump has been eager to grant him more authority and more resources whenever he’s asked, even though the specifics of what they’re doing and why remains largely secret.

By Jason Ditz / Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report a typo

Trump
to Scrap Drone Restrictions

September
22, 2017 at 7:21 am

Written
by 
Jake
Johnson

Human
rights groups argue the move could led to an upsurge in civilian
casualties, which are already soaring under Trump.

(COMMONDREAMS) — President
Donald Trump is 
reportedly gearing
up to roll back even the most limited restrictions on U.S. drone
operations overseas, further opening the door for the expansion of
airstrikes and commando raids into nations like the Philippines and
Nigeria and setting the stage for an upsurge in civilian
casualties—already at 
record
highs
 in
Afghanistan and 
soaring in
Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

Zeke
Johnson, senior director of programs for Amnesty International USA,
told the 
New
York Times
 in
an interview that while Obama-era restrictions on drone strikes “fell
far short on human rights protections,” any move to water down
drone warfare rules even further would be a “grave mistake.”

The
White House appears to be committed to the move nonetheless,
the 
Times reported on
Thursday, noting that the plan “has quietly taken shape over months
of debate among administration officials and awaits Trump’s
expected signature.”

The Times notes
that at least two rules are on the chopping block:

  • First,
    the targets of kill missions by the military and the CIA, now
    generally limited to high-level militants deemed to pose a
    ‘continuing and imminent threat’ to Americans, would be expanded
    to include foot-soldier jihadists with no special skills or
    leadership roles.”

  • And
    second, proposed drone attacks and raids would no longer undergo
    high-level vetting.”

The
plan, in effect, would deepen American military involvement in
nations considered to be beyond combat zones and allow the U.S.
military—and the CIA, which has for months 
lobbied
for more drone authority
—to
target individuals that are not even deemed national security threats
by the U.S. government.

[D]rone
operators and commanders would face fewer internal hurdles to
launching specific strikes or raids,” the 
Times concluded.

As Common
Dreams
 reported last
month, Trump has repeatedly shown a willingness to bow to endless war
advocates, as he did in his speech outlining the White House
“strategy” for the 16-year-war in Afghanistan. Central to his
address was the 
promise
to lift restrictions on military operations
 and
“expand authority for American forces.”

With
his expected drone rule rollback, Trump appears to be moving closer
to fulfilling this promise.

According
to a recent 
analysis by
the human rights organization Reprieve, the Trump administration’s
more belligerent and less accountable foreign policy is already
having devastating consequences. Trump, the group notes, “has
overseen a projected fivefold increase in drone strikes” in Yemen,
the site of a U.S. assassination campaign that “eclipses all that
came before it in scale and brutality.”

Johnson
of Amnesty International noted in a 
statement late
Thursday that Trump’s ability to expand the use of lethal force
abroad is due to the “legally and morally murky” policies that
were put in place and maintained by his predecessors, and sustained
by a Congress that 
refuses
to debate
 the
merits of the endless “war on terror.”

Thus,
any proposal that “gut[s] already weak human rights protections”
that restrain American forces abroad “would be
unacceptable,
 Johnson
concluded. 
The
Trump administration needs to ensure that its guidance for operations
outside armed conflict comply with human rights law.
 The
administration cannot write itself a blank check to kill with
impunity.

By Jake
Johnson
 / Creative
Commons
 / Common
Dreams
 / Report
a typo

Duterte (massamoordenaar en president Filipijnen) wordt ongemoeid gelaten door Paus Franciscus……..

Duterte heeft de laatste maand al meer dan 100 doden op z’n geweten (sinds zijn aantreden intussen duizenden), dit middels zijn haatzaaierij in de Filipijnse media t.a.v. drugsgebruikers en zijn vrijbrief aan de politie om drugsgebruikers en dealers te vermoorden……. Dit terwijl hij zelf de dodelijkste harddrug gebruikt die bestaat, t.w. alcohol…….

De Filipijnse politie is intussen zelfs meermaals betrapt op het standrechtelijk executeren van tieners en god hoe is het mogelijk, dat gaat het grootste deel van de Filipijnse bevolking toch net iets te ver………

Over het Filipijnse volk gesproken dat is voor het grootste deel rooms katholiek. Hoe is het mogelijk dat de wolf in schaapskleren paus Franciscus niet wekelijks een oproep doet aan het Filipijnse volk in opstand te komen tegen de psychopathische moordenaar Duterte? Waarom maant deze paus de Filipijnse priesters en bisschoppen niet, om het barbaarse geweld van Duterte zoveel en zo vaak mogelijk te veroordelen vanaf de kansel???

Gevalletje ‘paus in oorlogstijd………???’

Overigens is deze paus Bergoglio, zijn echte naam, al net zo’n massamoordenaar als zijn voorgangers, daar hij nog steeds het verbod op anticonceptie handhaaft……. Wat dat betreft is Duterte nog een kleine jongen………

Trouwens ongelofelijk dat Duterte niet door de EU is veroordeeld voor zijn moorddadig bewind, ja men stelt uiterst verontrust ter zijn, maar onderneemt geen actie…. Als Putin of Kim Yung-un zelfs maar een scheet laten, treft men al sancties……….

Zie ook: ‘Duterte, de Filipijnse neonazi-president heeft de jacht op Filipijnen met een Chinese achtergrond geopend………..

       en: ‘Trump prijst Duterte die op zijn beurt verkrachtingen aanprijst……..

       en: ‘Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen………

       en: ‘Koenders en Rutte, waar blijft jullie commentaar op de standrechtelijke executies in de Filipijnen? Iets teveel Nederlandse handelsbelangen in dat fascistische geregeerde land??

       en: ‘De wereld moet zich uitspreken tegen de fascistische psychopaat Duterte, president van de Filipijnen

VS en haar eerste Vietnam: de Filipijnen……..

Brasscheck TV kwam afgelopen vrijdag met een video-documentaire over het eerste Vietnam van de VS. Dat vond plaats op de Filipijnen, tegen een eerst nog vrij weerloze bevolking.

Spanje en de VS waren in 1898 in oorlog met elkaar en tijdens die oorlog verklaarde de Filipijnen zich onafhankelijk. Spanje had niet genoeg manschappen om de Filipijnen in hun macht te houden.

Tijdens de vredesonderhandelingen stelde de VS aan Spanje de vraag, of het de Filipijnen niet kon kopen en u snapt ‘t al, daar had Spanje geen moeite mee.

Vanaf het begin heeft de VS de Filipijnen leeggezogen en één van de VS presidenten merkte zelfs op, dat de Filipijnen altijd tot de VS zouden blijven behoren……..

Er was wel degelijk verzet tegen de VS bezetting, echter dat was een zeer ongelijke strijd tegen het goed bewapende VS leger…….. Nadat een paar VS militairen omkwamen op de Filipijnen, liet de VS commandant van het eiland waarop dit gebeurde, alle ‘mannen’ vanaf 10 jaar vermoorden (!!!)……….

Voorts had de VS, zoals Groot-Brittannië in Zuid-Afrika, al ver voor WOII concentratiekampen ingericht op de Filipijnen, kampen waarin de mensen stierven als vliegen……. Dit nog naast een groot aantal bloedbaden, waarbij de VS grote aantallen burgers vermoordde…….

De VS vermoordde in een paar jaar tijd meer Filipijnse burgers, dan Spanje in 300 jaar tijd (en ‘die konden er ook wat van…’)

Manlijke bewoners van de Filipijnen werden tijdens WOII door de VS verzocht mee te vechten tegen Japan en velen gaven daar gehoor aan, niet in de laatste plaats, daar hen na de oorlog banen en een pensioen werden beloofd. Helaas voor deze vrijwilligers, tot op de dag van vandaag vechten ze voor het inlossen van deze toezeggingen, die de VS niet nakwam………

Het verzet op de Filipijnen tegen de Japanse bezetter was groot en zoals op veel andere plekken op aarde werd dit verzet voornamelijk bevolkt door communisten, die aan het eind van de oorlog de onafhankelijkheid uitriepen (van de VS). Tegelijk verdeelde men het land van de grote landeigenaren onder de arme boerenbevolking…… Hiermee maakte de VS korte metten na WOII……. Op 4 juli 1946 kregen de Filipijnen eindelijk onafhankelijkheid…..

Daarmee waren de bemoeienissen van de VS met de Filipijnen nog lang niet afgelopen, tot een paar keer na het uitroepen van de onafhankelijkheid, heeft de VS nog huisgehouden op de Filipijnen………….

Zie nog veel meer feiten over deze eerdere kolonie van Spanje en de VS, plus haar strijd tegen de koloniale machten (vooral de VS):

 Zie ook: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

        en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

Koenders en Rutte, waar blijft jullie commentaar op de standrechtelijke executies in de Filipijnen? Iets teveel Nederlandse handelsbelangen in dat fascistische geregeerde land??

Afgelopen week doodde de Filipijnse politie voor de zoveelste keer een groot aantal mensen die worden verdacht van drugsgebruik dan wel drugshandel (en nee, niet de verslaafden en verkopers aan/van de gevaarlijkste harddrug, die het individu, diens omgeving en de maatschappij in het geheel, de meeste schade berokkent: alcohol…..)…

Bij deze standrechtelijke executies (nogmaals: van verdachten) werd ook een 17 jarige jongen vermoord, die zou ‘verzet hebben gepleegd bij zijn arrestatie……’ In werkelijkheid sleepten ‘politieagenten’ (fascistische psychopaten) de jongen in een steeg en executeerden hem ter plekke……..

Waar blijft onze regering en dan in het bijzonder PvdA oetlul Koenders en de grijnzende VVD opperhufter Rutte, met: -hun commentaar, -het uitwijzen van de Filipijnse ambassadeur en -de eis om actie van de VN???? Ach ja, de handelsbelangen gaan nog immer ver voor op mensenrechtenschendingen en massamoorden, tenzij het landen betreft waarmee de VS in de clinch ligt, dan durft Koenders wel z’n zwetsklep open te trekken (de VS ligt in de clinch met deze regeringen van meestal armere landen, daar ze niet één op één doen wat de VS eist). Tijd voor een handelsmissie met het belastingvretende koningshuis richting Filipijnen…….

Waarom heeft het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag niet al lang een arrestatiebevel uitgevaardigd voor de fascistische hoofdschoft en moordenaar Duterte?? Duterte, godbetert president van de Filipijnen en promotor van de massamoord op onschuldige mensen………

Zie ook: ‘Duterte, de Filipijnse neonazi-president heeft de jacht op Filipijnen met een Chinese achtergrond geopend………..

       en: ‘Trump prijst Duterte die op zijn beurt verkrachtingen aanprijst……..

       en: ‘Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen………

       en: ‘Duterte (massamoordenaar en president Filipijnen) wordt ongemoeid gelaten door Paus Franciscus……..

       en: ‘De wereld moet zich uitspreken tegen de fascistische psychopaat Duterte, president van de Filipijnen

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Veel woorden zijn niet nodig bij het volgende bericht, zeker als je de VS ziet als de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde. William Blum maakte een lijst met alle staatsgrepen of pogingen daartoe, die de VS ondernam sinds 1945…….

Bovendien heeft de VS Na WOII meer dan 20 miljoen mensen vermoord in oorlogen, staatsgrepen en ‘geheime’ militaire acties……..#

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

September
09, 2014 “
ICH
– Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to
overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. 
(*
indicates successful ouster of a government)

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

Q: Why
will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

# Over lijsten gesproken (een volgende lijst waarin u de hierboven genoemde landen terug zal zien):

US
Has Killed More Than 20 Million In 37 Nations Since WWII (!!!)

After
the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a
feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the
American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a
balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also
been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other
nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although 

Americans
understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world
empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of
wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon
overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”

But
we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion
in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by
addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United
States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed
in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in
37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is
considered culpable.

The
causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the
U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the
involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of
a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it.
In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S.
had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic
power of the United States was crucial.

This
study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for
about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and
the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while
the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The
American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even
less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also
responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14
million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But
the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world.
The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half
the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have
been the target of U.S. intervention.

The
overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has
been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30
million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.

To
the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference
whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces,
the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways,
such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make
decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether
to become refugees, and how to survive.

And
the pain and anger is spread even further. Some authorities estimate
that there are as many as 10 wounded for each person who dies in
wars. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to
their fellow countrymen.

It
is essential that Americans learn more about this topic so that they
can begin to understand the pain that others feel. Someone once
observed that the Germans during WWII “chose not to know.” We
cannot allow history to say this about our country. The question
posed above was “How many September 11ths has the United States
caused in other nations since WWII?” The answer is: possibly
10,000.

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


Generally
speaking, the much smaller number of Americans who have died is not
included in this study, not because they are not important, but
because this report focuses on the impact of U.S. actions on its
adversaries.

An
accurate count of the number of deaths is not easy to achieve, and
this collection of data was undertaken with full realization of this
fact. These estimates will probably be revised later either upward or
downward by the reader and the author. But undoubtedly the total will
remain in the millions.

The
difficulty of gathering reliable information is shown by two
estimates in this context. For several years I heard statements on
radio that three million Cambodians had been killed under the rule of
the Khmer Rouge. However, in recent years the figure I heard was one
million. Another example is that the number of persons estimated to
have died in Iraq due to sanctions after the first U.S. Iraq War was
over 1 million, but in more recent years, based on a more recent
study, a lower estimate of around a half a million has emerged.

Often
information about wars is revealed only much later when someone
decides to speak out, when more secret information is revealed due to
persistent efforts of a few, or after special congressional
committees make reports

Both
victorious and defeated nations may have their own reasons for
underreporting the number of deaths. Further, in recent wars
involving the United States it was not uncommon to hear statements
like “we do not do body counts” and references to “collateral
damage” as a euphemism for dead and wounded. Life is cheap for
some, especially those who manipulate people on the battlefield as if
it were a chessboard.

To
say that it is difficult to get exact figures is not to say that we
should not try. Effort was needed to arrive at the figures of 6six
million Jews killed during WWI, but knowledge of that number now is
widespread and it has fueled the determination to prevent future
holocausts. That struggle continues.

The
author can be contacted at 
jlucas511@woh.rr.com

37
VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

The
U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the
war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet
Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4)

The
Soviet Union had friendly relations its neighbor, Afghanistan, which
had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government
became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet
Union.

In
1998, in an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel
Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carter,
admitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the
Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade. In his
own words:

According
to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began
during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded
Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I
wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
(5,1,6)

Brzezinski
justified laying this trap, since he said it gave the Soviet Union
its Vietnam and caused the breakup of the Soviet Union. “Regret
what?” he said. “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It
had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you
want me to regret it?” (7)

The
CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in
order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended
over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of
the U.S. market. (4)

The
U.S. has been responsible directly for about 12,000 deaths in
Afghanistan many of which resulted from bombing in retaliation for
the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S.
troops invaded that country. (4)

Angola

An
indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in
1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N.,
although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this
action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a
group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this
struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.

U.S.
intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the
intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to
Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the
reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA –
financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the
Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three
estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

Hugo
Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s.
The U.S. had been disturbed when a previous leader nationalized the
tin mines and distributed land to Indian peasants. Later that action
to benefit the poor was reversed.

Banzer,
who was trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama
and later at Fort Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to
confer with U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1971 he staged a
successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. In
the first years of his dictatorship he received twice as military
assistance from the U.S. as in the previous dozen years together.

A
few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of
striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information
provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests
and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was
adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. (2) He
has been accused of being responsible for 400 deaths during his
tenure. (1)

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

U.S.
bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in
secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when
President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land
assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the
Vietnam War.

There
is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the
human suffering involved.

Immense
damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing
refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable
situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol
Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about
the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia
without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made
possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it
by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.

So
the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the
bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the
Khmer Rouge – a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when
Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting
the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

An
estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000
tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to
power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained
in power for eight years. (1,2)

Human
Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of
killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for
crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these
proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in
Belgium, because some of 

Habre’s
torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium
that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if
it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that
the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for
atrocities committed abroad was repealed. 

However,
two months later a new law was passed which made special provision
for the continuation of the case against Habre.

Chile

The
CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a
socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA
wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the
Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this
action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean
military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took
office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the
CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.

What
followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror.
ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored
demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende
died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry
Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding
Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country
go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.”
(1)

During
17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto
Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others
were tortured or “disappeared.” (2,3,4,5)

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

China
An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War. For more
information, See: Korea.

Colombia

One
estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent
years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)

According
to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were
killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the
military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.-
supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against
narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to
commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002
another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S.
funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)

In
1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in
Colombia” which revealed that 

CIA
agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train
undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)

In
recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan
Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most
of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary
group.

Cuba

In
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 18, 1961 which ended after
3 days, 114 of the invading force were killed, 1,189 were taken
prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships. (1) The captured
exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to
thirty years in prison for treason. These exiles were released after
20 months in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.

Some
people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from
2,000, to 4,000. Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were
killed on an open highway by napalm. This appears to have been a
precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S. forces
mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

The
beginning of massive violence was instigated in this country in 1879
by its colonizer King Leopold of Belgium. The Congo’s population
was reduced by 10 million people over a period of 20 years which some
have referred to as “Leopold’s Genocide.” (1) The U.S. has been
responsible for about a third of t

hat
many deaths in that nation in the more recent past. (2)

In
1960 the Congo became an independent state with Patrice Lumumba being
its first prime minister. He was assassinated with the CIA being
implicated, although some say that his murder was actually the
responsibility of Belgium. (3) But nevertheless, the CIA was planning
to kill him. (4) Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its
scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal
biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination.
This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous
to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic
pouch.

Much
of the time in recent years there has been a civil war within the
Democratic Republic of Congo, fomented often by the U.S. and other
nations, including neighboring nations. (5)

In
April 1977, Newsday reported that the CIA was secretly supporting
efforts to recruit several hundred mercenaries in the U.S. and Great
Britain to serve alongside Zaire’s army. In that same year the U.S.
provided $15 million of military supplies to the Zairian President
Mobutu to fend off an invasion by a rival group operating in Angola.
(6)

In
May 1979, the U.S. sent several million dollars of aid to Mobutu who
had been condemned 3 months earlier by the U.S. State Department for
human rights violations. (7) During the Cold War the U.S. funneled
over 300 million dollars in weapons into Zaire (8,9) $100 million in
military training was provided to him. (2) In 2001 it was reported to
a U.S. congressional committee that American companies, including one
linked to former President George Bush Sr., were stoking the Congo
for monetary gains. There is an international battle over resources
in that country with over 125 companies and individuals being
implicated. One of these substances is coltan, which is used in the
manufacture of cell phones. (2)


Dominican
Republic

In
1962, Juan Bosch became president of the Dominican Republic. He
advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs.
This did not bode well for his future relationship with the U.S., and
after only 7 months in office, he was deposed by a CIA coup. In 1965
when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President
Johnson said, “This Bosch is no good.” Assistant Secretary of
State Thomas Mann replied “He’s no good at all. If we don’t get
a decent government in there, Mr. President, we get another Bosch.
It’s just going to be another sinkhole.” Two days later a U.S.
invasion started and 22,000 soldiers and marines entered the
Dominican Republic and about 3,000 Dominicans died during the
fighting. The cover excuse for doing this was that this was done to
protect foreigners there. (1,2,3,4)

East
Timor

In
December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was
launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given
President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S.
law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S.
ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out
as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of
a population of 700,000. (1,2)

Sixteen
years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East
Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a
memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock
troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto
(son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen
dumping bodies into the sea. (5)

El
Salvador

The
civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion
in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a
movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of
about 8 million people. (1)

During
that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on
teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the
Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. This former member
of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a
squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas
and tortured them. Part of the training he received was in torture at
a U.S. location somewhere in Panama. (2)

About
900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Ten
of the twelve El Salvadoran government soldiers cited as
participating in this act were graduates of the School of the
Americas operated by the U.S. (2) They were only a small part of
about 75,000 people killed during that civil war. (1)

According
to a 1993 United Nations’ Truth Commission report, over 96 % of the
human rights violations carried out during the war were committed by
the Salvadoran army or the paramilitary deaths squads associated with
the Salvadoran army. (3)

That
commission linked graduates of the School of the Americas to many
notorious killings. The New York Times and the Washington Post
followed with scathing articles. In 1996, the White House Oversight
Board issued a report that supported many of the charges against that
school made by Rev. Roy Bourgeois, head of the School of the Americas
Watch. That same year the Pentagon released formerly classified
reports indicating that graduates were trained in killing, extortion,
and physical abuse for interrogations, false imprisonment and other
methods of control. (4)

Grenada

The
CIA began to destabilize Grenada in 1979 after Maurice Bishop became
president, partially because he refused to join the quarantine of
Cuba. The campaign against him resulted in his overthrow and the
invasion by the U.S. of Grenada on October 25, 1983, with about 277
people dying. (1,2) It was fallaciously charged that an airport was
being built in Grenada that could be used to attack the U.S. and it
was also erroneously claimed that the lives of American medical
students on that island were in danger.

Guatemala

In
1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He
appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company
and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a
campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and
hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains.
(3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left
the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed
thousands of people.

In
1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification
Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during
the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights
violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the
army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and
the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the
guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)

According
to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of
Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government –
destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide.
(4)

One
of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo
from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe
house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security
agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the
Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected
allies. (2)

Haiti

From
1957 to 1986 Haiti was ruled by Papa Doc Duvalier and later by his
son. During that time their private terrorist force killed between
30,000 and 100,000 people. (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies
flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular
movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country,
according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel.

Reportedly,
governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an
even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the
U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. The U.S. later
forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean
Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in
the early 1990s. The wealthy white class in Haiti opposed him in this
predominantly black nation, because of his social programs designed
to help the poor and end corruption. (3) Later he returned to office,
but that did not last long. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office
and now lives in South Africa.


Honduras

In
the 1980s the CIA supported Battalion 316 in Honduras, which
kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of its citizens. Torture
equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who
worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans.
Approximately 400 people lost their lives. (1,2) This is another
instance of torture in the world sponsored by the U.S. (3)

Battalion
316 used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations in the
1980s. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful,
killed and buried in unmarked graves. Declassified documents and
other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous
crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support
Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders.” (4)

Honduras
was a staging ground in the early 1980s for the Contras who were
trying to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
John D. Negroponte, currently Deputy Secretary of State, was our
embassador when our military aid to Honduras rose from $4 million to
$77.4 million per year. Negroponte denies having had any knowledge of
these atrocities during his tenure. However, his predecessor in that
position, Jack R. Binns, had reported in 1981 that he was deeply
concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned
assassinations. (5)

Hungary

In
1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet
Union. During the uprising broadcasts by the U.S. Radio Free Europe
into Hungary sometimes took on an aggressive tone, encouraging the
rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving
tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets. Their hopes were raised
then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over
the Hungarian tragedy.“ (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was
about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. (2)

Indonesia

In
1965, in Indonesia, a coup replaced General Sukarno with General
Suharto as leader. The U.S. played a role in that change of
government. Robert Martens,a former officer in the U.S. embassy in
Indonesia, described how U.S. diplomats and CIA officers provided up
to 5,000 names to Indonesian Army death squads in 1965 and checked
them off as they were killed or captured. Martens admitted that “I
probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad.
There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.”
(1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3
million. (4,5,6)

From
1993 to 1997 the U.S. provided Jakarta with almost $400 million in
economic aid and sold tens of million of dollars of weaponry to that
nation. U.S. Green Berets provided training for the Indonesia’s
elite force which was responsible for many of atrocities in East
Timor. (3)

Iran

Iran
lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988.
(1) See Iraq for more information about that war.

On
July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was operating withing
Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the
Iran-Iraq war. During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two
missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian
flight. All 290 civilian on board were killed. (2,3)

Iraq

A.
The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there
were about 105,000 Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post.
(1,2)

According
to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the
U.S. provided the Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and
helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had military
equipment including biological agents This surge of help for Iraq
came as Iran seemed to be winning the war and was close to Basra. (1)
The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a
result of the war, but it did not appear to want either side to win.

B:
The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions Against Iraq extended from 1990
to 2003.

Iraq
invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding
that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international
sanctions.

Iraq
had reason to believe that the U.S. would not object to its invasion
of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told
Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his
country had with Kuwait. So the green light was given, but it seemed
to be more of a trap.

As
a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American
public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the
Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that
Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals.
(1) This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.

The
U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42
days. On February 23 President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground
assault to begin. The invasion took place with much needless killing
of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150 American military
personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Some of the Iraqis
were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of
depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3)

Other
deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians
killed, those killed by effects of damage of the Iraqi water
treatment facilities and other aspects of its damaged infrastructure
and by the sanctions.

In
1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that
U.N sanctions against on Iraq had been responsible for the deaths of
more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)

Leslie
Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine
Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half
million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died
in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?”
Albright replied “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price
– we think is worth it.” (4)

In
1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000 children died each month as a result
of the sanction and the War with the U.S. (6)

Richard
Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths
among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998
to be 227,000 – double those of the previous decade. Garfield
estimated that the numbers to be 350,000 through 2000 (based in part
on result of another study). (7)

However,
there are limitations to his study. His figures were not updated for
the remaining three years of the sanctions. Also, two other somewhat
vulnerable age groups were not studied: young children above the age
of five and the elderly.

All
of these reports were considerable indicators of massive numbers of
deaths which the U.S. was aware of and which was a part of its
strategy to cause enough pain and terror among Iraqis to cause them
to revolt against their government.

C:
Iraq-U.S. War started in 2003 and has not been concluded


Just
as the end of the Cold War emboldened the U.S. to attack Iraq in 1991
so the attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the groundwork for the U.S.
to launch the current war against Iraq. While in some other wars we
learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some
of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known
almost as soon as they were uttered. There were no weapons of mass
destruction, we were not trying to promote democracy, we were not
trying to save the Iraqi people from a dictator.

The
total number of Iraqi deaths that are a result of our current Iraq
against Iraq War is 654,000, of which 600,000 are attributed to acts
of violence, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. (1,2)

Since
these deaths are a result of the U.S. invasion, our leaders must
accept responsibility for them.

Israeli-Palestinian
War

About
100,000 to 200,000 Israelis and Palestinians, but mostly the latter,
have been killed in the struggle between those two groups. The U.S.
has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars
in aid and supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)


Korea,
North and South


The
Korean War started in 1950 when, according to the Truman
administration, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th.
However, since then another explanation has emerged which maintains
that the attack by North Korea came during a time of many border
incursions by both sides. South Korea initiated most of the border
clashes with North Korea beginning in 1948. The North Korea
government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617
armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North
Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)


The
U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed
supporting our nation’s intervention, and our military forces added
to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1)

During
the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and
Chinese. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5
million. (3,4,5,6) Another source gives a total of 4 million but does
not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)


John
H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of
Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War
“the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the
killing of about three million civilians – both South and North
Koreans – at many locations throughout Korea…It is reported that
the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of
napalm bombs, during the Korean War.” It is presumed that this
total does not include Chinese casualties.

Another
source states a total of about 500,000 who were Koreans and
presumably only military. (8,9)


Laos


From
1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million
tons of bombs on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both
sides. Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was
later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time
as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were
killed. Branfman make the only estimate that I am aware of , stating
that hundreds of thousands died. This can be interpeted to mean that
at least 200,000 died. (1,2,3)


U.S.
military intervention in Laos actually began much earlier. A civil
war started in the 1950s when the U.S. recruited a force of 40,000
Laotians to oppose the Pathet Lao, a leftist political party that
ultimately took power in 1975.

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


Between
8,000 and 12,000 Nepalese have died since a civil war broke out in
1996. The death rate, according to Foreign Policy in Focus, sharply
increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine
guns (950 rpm) and U.S. advisers. Nepal is 85 percent rural and badly
in need of land reform. Not surprisingly 42 % of its people live
below the poverty level. (1,2)

In
2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush
pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military
aid to the Nepalese government. (3)


Nicaragua


In
1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua,
(1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed
struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were
formed from the remnants of Somoza’s national government. The use
of assassination manuals by the Contras surfaced in 1984. (2,3)


The
U.S. supported the victorious government regime by providing covert
military aid to the Contras (anti-communist guerillas) starting in
November, 1981. But when Congress discovered that the CIA had
supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress,
it passed the Boland Amendment in 1983 which prohibited the CIA,
Defense Department and any other government agency from providing any
further covert military assistance. (4)


But
ways were found to get around this prohibition. The National Security
Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, raised private
and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, arms were sold to
Iran and the proceeds were diverted from those sales to the Contras
engaged in the insurgency against the Sandinista government. (5)
Finally, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990 by voters
who thought that a change in leadership would placate the U.S., which
was causing misery to Nicaragua’s citizenry by it support of the
Contras.


Pakistan


In
1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S.,
brutally invaded East Pakistan. The war ended after India, whose
economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees,
invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West
Pakistani forces. (1)

Millions
of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as
genocide committed by West Pakistan. That country had long been an
ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish
its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15
million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4)

Three
sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source
estimates 1.5 million. (3)


Panama


In
December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest
Manuel Noriega, that nation’s president. This was an example of the
U.S. view that it is the master of the world and can arrest anyone it
wants to. For a number of years before that he had worked for the
CIA, but fell out of favor partially because he was not an opponent
of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. (1) It has been estimated that
between 500 and 4,000 people died. (2,3,4)


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


The
Philippines were under the control of the U.S. for over a hundred
years. In about the last 50 to 60 years the U.S. has funded and
otherwise helped various Philippine governments which sought to
suppress the activities of groups working for the welfare of its
people. In 1969 the Symington Committee in the U.S. Congress revealed
how war material was sent there for a counter-insurgency campaign.
U.S. Special Forces and Marines were active in some combat
operations. The estimated number of persons that were executed and
disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. (1,2)


South
America: Operation Condor


This
was a joint operation of 6 despotic South American governments
(Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to share
information about their political opponents. An estimated 13,000
people were killed under this plan. (1)


It
was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the
Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. According to U.S.
embassy political officer, John Tipton, the CIA and the Chilean
Secret Police were working together, although the CIA did not set up
the operation to make this collaboration work. Reportedly, it ended
in 1983. (2)


On
March 6, 2001 the New York Times reported the existence of a recently
declassified State Department document revealing that the United
States facilitated communications for Operation Condor. (3)


Sudan


Since
1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most
of the time in a civil war. Until about 2003 approximately 2 million
people had been killed. It not known if the death toll in Darfur is
part of that total.


Human
rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to
prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the
central government in Khartoum. In 1999 U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright met with the leader of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army (SPLA) who said that she offered him food supplies if
he would reject a peace plan sponsored by Egypt and Libya.

In
1978 the vastness of Sudan’s oil reservers was discovered and
within two years it became the sixth largest recipient of U.S,
military aid. It’s reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a
government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S.
part of the oil pie.


A
British group, Christian Aid, has accused foreign oil companies of
complicity in the depopulation of villages. These companies – not
American – receive government protection and in turn allow the
government use of its airstrips and roads.


In
August 1998 the U.S. bombed Khartoum, Sudan with 75 cruise míssiles.
Our government said that the target was a chemical weapons factory
owned by Osama bin Laden. Actually, bin Laden was no longer the
owner, and the plant had been the sole supplier of pharmaceutical
supplies for that poor nation. As a result of the bombing tens of
thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat
malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. The U.S. settled a lawsuit
filed by the factory’s owner. (1,2)


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

In
Vietnam, under an agreement several decades ago, there was supposed
to be an election for a unified North and South Vietnam. The U.S.
opposed this and supported the Diem government in South Vietnam. In
August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese
attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a
pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1)


During
that war an American assassination operation,called Operation
Phoenix, terrorized the South 

Vietnamese
people, and during the war American troops were responsible in 1968
for the mass slaughter of the people in the village of My Lai.


According
to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of
civilians and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1
million. (2)


Since
deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and
Laos) the estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.


The
Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million,
(3) and Robert McNamara, former Secretary Defense, according to the
New York Times Magazine says that the number of Vietnamese dead is
3.4 million. (4,5)


Yugoslavia


Yugoslavia
was a socialist federation of several republics. Since it refused to
be closely tied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gained
some suport from the U.S. But when the Soviet Union dissolved,
Yugoslavia’s usefulness to the U.S. ended, and the U.S and Germany
worked to convert its socialist economy to a capitalist one by a
process primarily of dividing and conquering. There were ethnic and
religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were
manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the
dissolution of that country.


From
the early 1990s until now Yugoslavia split into several independent
nations whose lowered income, along with CIA connivance, has made it
a pawn in the hands of capitalist countries. (1) The dissolution of
Yugoslavia was caused primarily by the U.S. (2)


Here
are estimates of some, if not all, of the internal wars in
Yugoslavia. All wars: 107,000; (3,4)

Bosnia
and Krajina: 250,000; (5) Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000; (5) Croatia:
15,000; (6) and

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.135.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_
terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Soviet
War in
Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.76

5.U.S
Involvement in Afghanistan,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in
Afghanistan)

6.The
CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Posted
at globalresearch.ca 15 October
2001, 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html

7.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.5

8.Unknown
News, 
http://www.unknownnews.net/casualtiesw.html

Angola

1.Howard
W. French “From Old Files, a New Story of the U.S. Role in the
Angolan War” New York Times 3/31/02

2.Angolan
Update, American Friends Service Committee FS, 11/1/99 flyer.

3.Norman
Solomon, War Made Easy, (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) p. 82-83.

4.Lance
Selfa, U.S. Imperialism, A Century of Slaughter, International
Socialist Review Issue 7, Spring 1999 (as appears in Third world
Traveler www.
thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Century_Imperialism.html)

5.
Jeffress Ramsay, Africa , (Dushkin/McGraw Hill Guilford Connecticut),
1997, p. 144-145.

6.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.54.

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

1.
Phil Gunson, Guardian, 5/6/02,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/archive
/article/0,4273,41-07884,00.html

2.Jerry
Meldon, Return of Bolilvia’s Drug – Stained Dictator,
Consortium,
www.consortiumnews.com/archives/story40.html.

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/ .

2.David
Model, President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Bombing of
Cambodia excerpted from the book Lying for Empire How to Commit War
Crimes With A Straight Face, Common Courage Press, 2005,
paper
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html.

3.Noam
Chomsky, Chomsky on Cambodia under Pol Pot,
etc.,
http//zmag.org/forums/chomcambodforum.htm.

Chad

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
151-152 .

2.Richard
Keeble, Crimes Against Humanity in Chad, Znet/Activism
12/4/06
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11560&sectionID=1).

Chile

1.Parenti,
Michael, The Sword and the Dollar (New York, St. Martin’s Press,
1989) p. 56.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
142-143.

3.Moreorless:
Heroes and Killers of the 20th Century, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte,

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pinochet.html

4.Associated
Press,Pincohet on 91st Birthday, Takes Responsibility for Regimes’s
Abuses, Dayton Daily News 11/26/06

5.Chalmers
Johnson, Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000), p. 18.

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html).

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
163.

3.Millions
Killed by Imperialism Washington Post May 6,
2002)
http://www.etext.org./Politics/MIM/rail/impkills.html

4.Gabriella
Gamini, CIA Set Up Death Squads in Colombia Times Newspapers Limited,
Dec. 5,
1996,
www.edu/CommunicationsStudies/ben/news/cia/961205.death.html).

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

Human
Rights Watch Report: Colombia’s Killer Networks–The
Military-Paramilitary Partnership).

Cuba

1.St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture – on Bay of Pigs
Invasion
http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.

2.Wikipedia http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Casualties.

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

1.F.
Jeffress Ramsey, Africa (Guilford Connecticut, 1997), p. 85

2.
Anup Shaw The Democratic Republic of Congo,
10/31/2003)
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/DRC.asp)

3.Kevin
Whitelaw, A Killing in Congo, U. S. News and World
Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/patrice.htm

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p
158-159.

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

8.David
Pickering, “World War in Africa,
6/26/02,
www.9-11peace.org/bulletin.php3

9.William
D. Hartung and Bridget Moix, Deadly Legacy; U.S. Arms to Africa and
the Congo War, Arms Trade Resource Center, January ,
2000
www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm


Dominican
Republic

1.Norman
Solomon, (untitled) Baltimore Sun April 26,
2005
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2005/0426spincycle.htm
Intervention
Spin Cycle

2.Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack

3.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
175.

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.26-27.


East
Timor

1.Virtual
Truth Commission,
 http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/date4.htm

2.Matthew
Jardine, Unraveling Indonesia, Nonviolent Activist, 1997)

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
197.

5.US
trained butchers of Timor, The Guardian, London. Cited by The Drudge
Report, September 19,
1999. 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/indon.htm


El
Salvador

1.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003, (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 152-153.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
54-55.

3.El
Salvador,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#The_20th_century_and_beyond)

4.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.


Grenada

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p. 66-67.

2.Stephen
Zunes, The U.S. Invasion of
Grenada,
http://wwwfpif.org/papers/grenada2003.html .


Guatemala

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

2.Ibid.

3.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.2-13.

4.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003 (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 162.

5.Douglas
Farah, Papers Show U.S. Role in Guatemalan Abuses, Washington Post
Foreign Service, March 11, 1999, A 26


Haiti

1.Francois
Duvalier,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier#Reign_of_terror).

2.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p 87.

3.William
Blum, Haiti 1986-1994: Who Will Rid Me of This Turbulent
Priest,
http://www.doublestandards.org/blum8.html


Honduras

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p. 55.

2.Reports
by Country: Honduras, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/honduras.htm

3.James
A. Lucas, Torture Gets The Silence Treatment, Countercurrents, July
26, 2004.

4.Gary
Cohn and Ginger Thompson, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, Baltimore Sun,
reprint of a series that appeared June 11-18, 1995 in Jack
Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins, p. 46 Orbis Books 2001.

5.Michael
Dobbs, Negroponte’s Time in Honduras at Issue, Washington Post,
March 21, 2005


Hungary

1.Edited
by Malcolm Byrne, The 1956 Hungarian Revoluiton: A history in
Documents November 4,
2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/index2.htm

2.Wikipedia
The Free
Encyclopedia,
http://www.answers.com/topic/hungarian-revolution-of-1956


Indonesia

1.Virtual
Truth Commission 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Editorial,
Indonesia’s Killers, The Nation, March 30, 1998.

3.Matthew
Jardine, Indonesia Unraveling, Non Violent Activist Sept–Oct, 1997
(Amnesty) 2/7/07.

4.Sison,
Jose Maria, Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia, p.
5.
http://qc.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=5602;

5.Annie
Pohlman, Women and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966: Gender
Variables and Possible Direction for Research,
p.4,
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Pohlman-A-ASAA.pdf

6.Peter
Dale Scott, The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno,
1965-1967, Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985, pages
239-264.
http://www.namebase.org/scott.

7.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.30.


Iran

1.Geoff
Simons, Iraq from Sumer to Saddam, 1996, St. Martins Press, NY p.
317.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

3.BBC
1988: US Warship Shoots Down Iranian
Airliner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm )


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

1.Michael
Dobbs, U.S. Had Key role in Iraq Buildup, Washington Post December
30, 2002, p
A01 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer

2.Global
Security.Org , Iran Iraq War
(1980-1980)
globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm.


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

1.Ramsey
Clark, The Fire This Time (New York, Thunder’s Mouth), 1994,
p.31-32

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

4.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, (South End Press Cambridge MA 2000). p.
175.

5.Food
and Agricultural Organizaiton, The Children are Dying, 1995 World
View Forum, Internationa Action Center, International Relief
Association, p. 78

6.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, South End Press Cambridge MA 2000. p. 61.

7.David
Cortright, A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions December 3, 2001, The
Nation.


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

1.Jonathan
Bor 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War Baltimore Sun , October 11,2006

2.News http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html


Israeli-Palestinian
War

1.Post-1967
Palestinian & Israeli Deaths from Occupation & Violence May
16,
2006 
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html)

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html


Korea

1.James
I. Matray Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War,
Korean War Teachers Conference: The Korean War, February 9,
2001
http://www.truman/library.org/Korea/matray1.htm

2.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p. 46

3.Kanako
Tokuno, Chinese Winter Offensive in Korean War – the Debacle of
American Strategy, ICE Case Studies Number 186, May,
2006
http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/chosin.htm.

4.John
G. Stroessinger, Why Nations go to War, (New York; St. Martin’s
Press), p. 99)

5.Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia, as reported in
Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/Korean-war

6.Exploring
the Environment: Korean
Enigma
www.cet.edu/ete/modules/korea/kwar.html)

7.S.
Brian Wilson, Who are the Real Terrorists? Virtual Truth
Commisson
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

8.Korean
War Casualty Statistics www.century
china.com/history/krwarcost.html
)

9.S.
Brian Wilson, Documenting U.S. War Crimes in North Korea (Veterans
for Peace Newsletter) Spring, 2002) 
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/


Laos

1.William
Blum Rogue State (Maine, Common Cause Press) p. 136

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Fred
Branfman, War Crimes in Indochina and our Troubled National Soul

www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/08/00_branfman_us-warcrimes-indochina.htm).


Nepal

1.Conn
Hallinan, Nepal & the Bush Administration: Into Thin Air,
February 3, 2004

fpif.org/commentary/2004/0402nepal.html.

2.Human
Rights Watch, Nepal’s Civil War: the Conflict Resumes, March 2006 )

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/28/nepal13078.htm.

3.Wayne
Madsen, Possible CIA Hand in the Murder of the Nepal Royal Family,
India Independent Media Center, September 25,
2001
http://india.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2190.shtml.


Nicaragua

1.Virtual
Truth Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Timeline
Nicaragua
www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline/).

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism,
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

4.William
Blum, Nicaragua 1981-1990 Destabilization in Slow Motion

www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html.

5.Wikipedia,
the Free
Encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair.


Pakistan

1.John
G. Stoessinger, Why Nations Go to War, (New York: St. Martin’s
Press), 1974 pp 157-172.

2.Asad
Ismi, A U.S. – Financed Military Dictatorship, The CCPA Monitor,
June 2002, Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives 
http://www.policyaltematives.ca)www.ckln.fm/~asadismi/pakistan.html

3.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.123, 124.

4.Arjum
Niaz ,When America Look the Other Way by,

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2821&sectionID=1

5.Leo
Kuper, Genocide (Yale University Press, 1981), p. 79.

6.Bangladesh
Liberation War , Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War#USA_and_USSR)


Panama

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’s Greatest Hits, (Odonian Press 1998) p. 83.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.154.

3.U.S.
Military Charged with Mass Murder, The Winds
9/96,
www.apfn.org/thewinds/archive/war/a102896b.html

4.Mark
Zepezauer, CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.83.

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

1.Romeo
T. Capulong, A Century of Crimes Against the Filipino People,
Presentation, Public Interest Law Center, World Tribunal for Iraq
Trial in New York City on August
25,2004.
http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/files/RomeoCapulong.pdf).

2.Roland
B. Simbulan The CIA in Manila – Covert Operations and the CIA’s
Hidden Hisotry in the Philippines Equipo Nizkor Information –
Derechos, derechos.org/nizkor/filipinas/doc/cia.


South
America: Operation Condor

1.John
Dinges, Pulling Back the Veil on Condor, The Nation, July 24, 2000.

2.Virtual
Truth Commission, Telling the Truth for a Better
America
www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm)

3.Operation
Condor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#US_involvement).


Sudan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003), p.
30, 32,34,36.

2.The
Black Commentator, Africa Action The Tale of Two Genocides: The
Failed US Response to Rwanda and Darfur, 11 August
2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706X.shtml.


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine:Common Courage
Press,1994), p 24

2.Casualties
– US vs NVA/VC,
http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html.

3.Brian
Wilson, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

4.Fred
Branfman, U.S. War Crimes in Indochiona and our Duty to Truth August
26, 2004

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6105&sectionID=1

5.David
K Shipler, Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of
Vietnam
nytimes.com/library/world/asia/081097vietnam-mcnamara.html


Yugoslavia

1.Sara
Flounders, Bosnia Tragedy:The Unknown Role of the Pentagon in NATO in
the Balkans (New York: International Action Center) p. 47-75

2.James
A. Lucas, Media Disinformation on the War in Yugoslavia: The Dayton
Peace Accords Revisited, Global Research, September 7, 2005
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=
viewArticle&code=LUC20050907&articleId=899

3.Yugoslav
Wars in 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_wars.

4.George
Kenney, The Bosnia Calculation: How Many Have Died? Not nearly as
many as some would have you think., NY Times Magazine, April 23, 1995

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/
war_crimes/srebrenica/bosnia_numbers.html
)

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/
ChronologyofTerror.html.

6.Croatian
War of Independence,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_War_of_Independence

7.Human
Rights Watch, New Figures on Civilian Deaths in Kosovo War, (February
7, 2000) 
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/nato207.htm.

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New York City based organization created and led by Filipino women
domestic workers that provides legal assistance to migrant workers
and human trafficking victims, as well as other victims of human
trafficking who have experienced the dark side of migrant employment.

Part
One: Buying a Slave – The Hidden World of US/Philippines
Trafficking

Part
Two: The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic

The
Philippines has suffered the consequences of occupation and
colonization for hundreds of years with the effects still being seen
today in the form of poverty, job shortages and a human trafficking
epidemic. A shocking 10% of the Philippine population must leave the
country in order to seek employment in hopes of sending money back to
their families. An estimated 6,000 people, mostly women, leave the
Philippines daily to seek work.

Human
trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry that entraps millions
of people across the globe. The majority of victims are abused–
living and working in shockingly inhumane conditions. Particularly
horrifying is the fact that, in the Philippines, humans have become
the number one export.

Most
of these migrant workers leave the Philippines for the United States,
the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Japan where they work in
low-wage jobs. In fact, 21 million people are working in forced labor
situations worldwide- many of them right under the noses of the
average citizen of these countries.

There
are currently 2 million migrant domestic workers working in the
United States. According to the recent report The Human Trafficking
of Domestic Workers in The United States, over 80% of these workers
have experienced their pay being withheld or having been paid under
minimum wage, 81% live in abusive conditions and 73% work excessive
overtime.

Through
this process, many of these migrant workers have become victims of
human trafficking and have found themselves stuck in a seemingly
endless cycle of abuse and neglect. But what has led to this
disturbing trend? Why do so many Filipinos flee their home country
for work and subject themselves to such harsh and inhumane
conditions?

The
Philippines was first claimed by the Spanish in 1525. The indigenous
Filipino people engaged in over 300 armed revolts over the next three
hundred years, eventually securing their independence after a two
year long war of independence. At the time, Spain was also engaged in
the Spanish-American war. Upon losing that war, Spain negotiated the
sale of the Philippines to the United States, behind the backs of the
Filipino people, for a total sum of $20 million in the Treaty of
Paris.

This
began a many decade-long hostile relationship between the Filipino
people and their new occupiers from the United States. With such a
volatile relationship, conflicts occurred frequently resulting in the
deaths of numerous Filipinos. In one such conflict, the Moro Crater
Massacre, only six out of 1,000 Filipinos survived. Shockingly, in
the first 15 years of colonization, more Filipinos were killed by the
U.S. than during the entire three hundred years of Spanish
occupation.

As
the violence decreased, the occupation took on a new form– economic
destruction and experiments in neocolonialism. There quickly became a
dependence on U.S. patronage for survival of the now fragile
Philippine economy and the U.S. began focusing it’s efforts and
attention on the elite of the Filipino people– training and
educating them to be vehicles of U.S. colonization.

This
led to the granting of Philippine independence in 1946 but that
independence was only in name. With the puppets of neocolonialism now
in charge of the country, the U.S. continued to have a direct line of
control, only now it was slightly obscured. Also in 1946, the United
States Congress passed the Rescission Act, stripping Filipinos who
fought in defense of the U.S. against the Japanese during World War
II of the benefits they were promised for doing so, yet another
damaging blow to the Philippine people.

Our
country was ruined primarily by the U.S.” –Linda Oalican

Tensions
between the Filipino people and the U.S. backed ruling class have
continued to this day, with the Philippine economy continuing to
suffer and a successful government propaganda campaign encouraging
workers to seek employment elsewhere via the Philippine Labor
Migration Policy continuing to grow. In this episode, Abby Martin
details the history of the colonization of the Philippines, starting
with the Spanish in 1525 and ending with the present day situation,
leading to an exodus of able-bodied workers from the Philippines to
all corners of the globe– often ripping families apart and damaging
relationships for years to come.

The
history of the Philippine resistance is an unbroken chain– from
it’s first hand-to-hand battles against colonizers wearing armor
and swords to it’s organizing against today’s exploiters who wear
three piece suits, the poor and oppressed of the Philippines are much
more than victims of the system, but are indeed the force that will
change it.”

By
Emma Fiala / Republished with permission / 
Media
Roots
 / Report
a typo

Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen……….

Sinds kort is het leger van de VS samen met het Filipijnse leger op jacht naar strijders van IS (verenigd in ‘Maute) en Abu Sayyaf. De president van de Filipijnen, Duterte, zegt tegen de inzet te zijn van VS troepen in zijn land, dit is in overeenkomst met zijn verkiezingsbeloften. Nu kan je nooit weten wat deze psychopathische moordenaar echt wil, behalve dan alle drugsverslaafden en dealers vermoorden (waar de schadelijkste harddrug is uitgezonderd van vervolging: alcohol…..)…….

Duterte heeft al wel aangegeven, dat hij minder grip heeft op het leger, dan zich liever voegt naar de wil van de VS. De band tussen de VS en het Filipijnse leger is historisch en dateert nog uit de tijd, dat de Filipijnen een kolonie was van de VS van 1899 tot 1946……

De vrees is dan ook, dat de VS de strijd tegen islamitische terreurgroepen gebruikt, om weer echt vaste voet op Filipijnse bodem te krijgen, waar de kans bestaat, dat de VS een coup zal organiseren tegen Duterte……. (al kan deze psychopaat beter vandaag dan morgen worden afgezet, echter niet middels de hulp van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde: de VS, dat zich al als een beest heeft gedragen op de Filipijnen!)

Uiteraard richt de VS zich ook op de linkse verzetsgroepen en dringt het aan op een verbod van de communistische partij in de Filipijnen…….

Eén ding is zeker: de mensenrechtenschendingen zijn na de inzet van VS troepen flink gegroeid, mensenrechten waar het Filipijnse leger en politie al schijt aan hadden……… De interventies en andere bemoeienissen van de VS in de Filipijnen uit het verleden, waarbij massamoorden werden gepleegd, mensen werden gemarteld en andere ernstige mensenrechtenschendingen werden gepleegd, doen het ergste vrezen voor de Filipijnse bevolking op o.a. Mindanao…….

Naast dit alles moet niet vergeten worden, dat de Filipijnen als kolonie van de VS wordt gebruikt voor de afzet van overproductie. De Filipijnen fungeren als een semi-kolonie van de VS, niet alleen voor afzet, maar ook vanwege de lage arbeidskosten en voor de bescherming van de miljarden investeringen die de VS heeft gedaan in de land- en tuinbouw, plus de productie van wapens en munitie….. Zelfs overheids/publieke zaken als gezondheidszorg, onderwijs, energielevering en telecommunicatie zitten bomvol VS investeringen, dit meestal daar deze zaken in handen zijn, dan wel voor een groot deel in handen zijn van VS bedrijven of VS investeerders…….

Vergeet verder niet dat alleen Mindanao naar schatting al van 840 miljard tot 1 biljoen dollar (in Engels: 840 billion en 1 trillion dollar) aan mineralen in de bodem heeft, dat is zo’n 70% van de totale Filipijnse mineralenrijkdom……..

Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Joe Catron over deze zaak:

US
Military’s Anti-Terror Efforts in the Philippines Fueling Human
Rights Violations

July
2, 2017 at 8:02 am

Written
by 
MintPress
News Desk

U.S.
forces have teamed up with the Philippines’ military to combat
terrorist groups in the country, ostensibly to bring about peace. But
numerous human rights violations have sprung up in their wake and
some believe that the U.S.’ ultimate goal may be to oust President
Rodrigo Duterte.

(MPN) — As
United States special forces near their third week in Marawi, a city
on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, observers say
their 
participation
in the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ battle
 to
reclaim the city from the ISIS (Daesh)-linked Maute group was also
aimed at reinforcing more than a century of U.S. control over the
Philippines, which was its colony from 1899 until 1946.

The
U.S. seeks to consolidate and maintain the Philippines as its
semi-colony, wherein it can avail itself of cheap raw materials
(minerals, oil, natural gas), a cheap labor force, a dumping ground
for its surplus US products, as well as protect its billions in
investments in corporate agribusiness, military production and even
healthcare, education, and public utilities such as
telecommunications and energy,” said Bernadette Ellorin, a
grassroots human rights activist and chairperson of 
BAYAN-USA,
an alliance of U.S.-based progressive Filipino organizations.

A
2006 U.S. 
intelligence
assessment
 said
Mindanao could hold mineral resources worth between $840 billion and
$1 trillion, or 
as
much as 70 percent
 of
the Philippines’ total mineral wealth.

The
island is also the site of enduring conflicts between the Government
of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the indigenous Lumad and
Moro peoples, as well as the leftist New People’s Army.

Peace
talks between the GRP and the Moro National Liberation Front, the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the leftist National Democratic
Front of the Philippines have stretched on for decades. But they
quickly disappeared from headlines when 
Maute
seized Marawi on May 23
,
after an attempt by the GRP to arrest the leader of another Daesh
affiliate, the Abu Sayyaf group.

But
many fear that the goal of the U.S.’ current intervention is to
strengthen the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in their bid to
repress these popular movements, as well as Maute and Abu Sayyaf.

The
U.S. objective in Marawi and in Mindanao is to go after and crush the
revolutionary armed movement in the region including the Bangsamoro
struggle for self-determination, rebrand the [Communist Party of the
Philippines]-NPA as terrorists to the international community, and
derail the peace process that was resumed under the Duterte
administration,” Ellorin said.

Philippine
military “…the most reactionary and pro-U.S. government
institution…”

The
GRP, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, 
did
not invite the U.S. presence
 in
Marawi. In fact, Duterte 
had
ejected U.S. special forces
 from
the same region nine months earlier. Their return apparently came at
the invitation of the AFP.

Speaking
at a press conference in the city of Cagayan de Oro on June 12 –
one day after U.S. participation in the battle began – Duterte said
he had “never approached America” for assistance and “not aware
of that until they arrived,” adding “our soldiers are
pro-American, that I cannot deny.”

The
AFP’s founding by the U.S., as well as the decades of training and
other assistance it has received from America, make it uniquely
pro-American in a country where Duterte’s anti-U.S. broadsides have
won broad public approval.

The
AFP is the most reactionary and pro-U.S. government institution in
the Philippines,” Ellorin said.

It
was established in the early 20th century during the U.S. colonial
period by the U.S. colonial government as the Philippine
Constabulary, whose purpose was and remains to maintain U.S. control
over the country and suppress anti-colonial rebellion.”

Many
are worried about the fresh support that the AFP is receiving from
the U.S., as well as its apparent ability to create its own foreign
policy independent of the GRP.

U.S.
intervention has emboldened a Philippine military that is notorious
for its human rights record,” said human rights attorney Azadeh
Shahshahani, a member of the global council of the 
International
Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines
.

Human
rights violations abound amid U.S. intervention

Before
the Marawi crisis erupted, years of U.S. involvement had already
taken a grisly toll in Mindanao and across the Philippines, according
to the country’s human rights advocates.

U.S.
intervention through military and political means on the affairs of
Mindanao and the Philippines has resulted in countless violations of
human and people’s rights such as massacres, torture and other
grave crimes especially against the Moro peoples, to blatant
disregard of the country’s sovereignty and patrimony, and to the
worsening of social injustices and discrimination against Moro and
Lumad peoples,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of
the 
KARAPATAN
Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights
.

In
Marawi, she added, “Human rights violations have been committed
with graver impunity especially with the continuing implementation of
the U.S.-driven counterinsurgency program, all-out war declaration
against the people, the anti-poor war on drugs and martial law
declaration in Mindanao.”

These
abuses fit an established historic pattern of the U.S. and its allies
using anti-terror rhetoric to justify their repression of popular
struggles, regardless of the human toll, according to Reverend
Michael Yoshii, a global council member of the International Council
on Human Rights in the Philippines

In
the case of the Philippines, this has led to hundreds of
extrajudicial killings targeting human rights advocates seeking
social change in the country,” he said.

The
war on terror continues to be a nebulous reality that needs to be
reigned in as innocent civilians like those in Marawi have become
collateral damage in these campaigns.”

U.S.
neocolonialism unlikely to end anytime soon in the Philippines

Shahshahani
added that U.S. involvement in the Philippines occurs across multiple
levels, with various strategies but identical goals.

U.S.
intervention takes place in the economic, political, social, and
cultural spheres in the Philippines and perpetuates the country’s
deep-seated social and economic crisis that is the root of chronic
social unrest in the country,” she said.

The
Filipino people have suffered the brunt of this military presence,
including sexual violence against women and children, forced
evacuation of communities in areas designated for military exercises
and operations, injuries and killings of civilians, and destruction
of the environment.”

With
U.S. forces showing no signs of leaving Marawi anytime soon, their
presence raises several questions about the future. One is the effect
that an enhanced U.S. role could have on peace talks between the GRP
and leftist or Moro groups.

Another
is the consequence of a possible power grab by the military of a
democratic country in cooperation with a foreign superpower.

This
current situation demonstrates how divided the ruling classes are
within the current administration of Rodrigo Duterte,” Ellorin
said, adding that it “indicates intentions of the U.S. and its
loyalists in the AFP to destabilize the Duterte administration if it
does not uphold the traditional status quo of U.S. neocolonial
politics in the Philippines.”


Zie ook: ‘Duterte, de Filipijnse neonazi-president heeft de jacht op Filipijnen met een Chinese achtergrond geopend………..

       en: ‘Trump prijst Duterte die op zijn beurt verkrachtingen aanprijst……..

       en: ‘Koenders en Rutte, waar blijft jullie commentaar op de standrechtelijke executies in de Filipijnen? Iets teveel Nederlandse handelsbelangen in dat fascistische geregeerde land??

       en: ‘Duterte (massamoordenaar en president Filipijnen) wordt ongemoeid gelaten door Paus Franciscus……..

       en: ‘De wereld moet zich uitspreken tegen de fascistische psychopaat Duterte, president van de Filipijnen

By Joe
Catron
 /
Republished with permission / 
Mint
Press News
 / Report
a typo

Trump prijst Duterte die op zijn beurt verkrachtingen aanprijst……..

De psychopathische clown en intussen volleerd oorlogsmisdadiger Trump heeft op 29 april jl. de psychopathische massamoordenaar en president van de Filipijnen, Duterte geprezen voor het vermoorden van drugsverslaafden en handelaren…….* “Keep up the good work, you are doing an amzing job, aldus luidden de uitgelekte woorden van Trump…….

Het Belgische VRT Radio1 nieuws van 11.00 u. afgelopen zaterdag, wist te melden dat opperschoft Duterte het gore lef had om militairen, die hij inzet tegen moslimextremisten op het eiland Mindanao, te beloven dat wanneer zij worden gepakt vanwege het verkrachten van vrouwen, hij de schuld op zich zal nemen…….. Met andere woorden: verkracht maar raak….!!!

Overigens heb ik dit nieuws nog niet op het Nederlandse Radio1 gehoord, net zo min als ik PvdA sierdrol Koenders, de zwaar disfunctionerend demissionair minister van BuZa, kritiek heb horen uiten op Duterte of op Trump…….. Zelfs zijn wanpresterende partijcollega en dito minister Ploemen (zelf vrouw) maakte hier geen woord aan vuil……..

Hier het bericht van Anti-Media, één van de bronnen waarop mijn bericht is gebaseerd:

Trump
Thinks Murdering Drug Addicts In The Streets Is An ‘Excellent’
Government Policy


Trump Thinks Murdering Drug Addicts In The Streets Is An ‘Excellent’ Government Policy

(broodje worst!)

May
26, 2017 at 5:08 pm

Written
by 
Anti-Media
Staff

(ANTIMEDIA) Philippines
 On
Wednesday — a day after it was
 leaked that
during a phone call last month Donald Trump praised Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte for doing an 
excellent
job”
 with
his country’s war on drugs — it was reported that the Southeast
Asian leader is thinking of declaring full martial law in the name of
fighting terrorism.

Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte said his martial law declaration for the
country’s restive south could be expanded ‘throughout the
country’ in order to combat the rise of ISIS.”

The
current order affects only a southern group of islands and
was
 declared Tuesday
after clashes broke out between militants and government troops.
Citing the violence, Duterte, who cut short a visit to Russia to fly
home, says it’s his duty as a leader to provide safety for his
citizens.

I
had to declare martial law in the Mindanao group of islands,”
 the
president
 said at
a news conference in Manila. “
It
is our constitutional duty to enforce the law and provide security.”

It
was Tuesday that three government troops
 died and
12 others were injured when militants reportedly took over several
state buildings, torched others — including a school, a jail, and a
church — and took hostages.

As
the world has just witnessed with the attack in Manchester, the
governments’ responses to acts of terror are almost universally the
same: lock it down.
 From Reuters on
Tuesday:

Countries
across the world will tighten security ahead of major cultural and
sports events after a suicide bombing in Britain that killed at least
22 people, but experts say reinforced measures will do little to
prevent determined individuals.

President
Duterte — if he makes good on his proposition of full martial law —
appears willing to take this philosophy to the extreme. Perhaps this
should come as no surprise, however, given the man’s
documented
 history of
what many find to be human rights abuses.

This
is why so many people were offended this week after 
The
Intercept
 published
the
 transcript of
a phone call between Duterte and Donald Trump. During that call,
which took place April 29, the U.S. president said the Filipino
leader was doing an “
unbelievable
job on the drug problem”
 in
his country.

You
are a good man,”
 Trump
says to Duterte. “
Keep
up the good work. You are doing an amazing job.”

Duterte
thanked Trump for his kind words, saying drugs are the “
scourge
of my nation now and I have to do something to preserve the Filipino
nation.”

That something” Duterte
referred has been taking place since his election in June and
was
 summarized by The
Intercept
 in
its reporting on the April conversation:

Police
have killed over 
7,000
people
,
devastated poor areas of Manila and other cities, and used the drug
war as a pretext to murder 
government
officials
 and
community leaders.

Duterte’s
version of a war on drugs has been roundly
 condemned by
the United Nations, and even Trump’s own State
Department
 acknowledges thousands
of “
extrajudicial
killings”
 in
the Philippines — saying it’s the country’s “
chief
human rights concern.”

Creative
Commons
 Anti-Media Report
a typo

=======================

* U begrijpt dat de harddrug die direct en indirect de meeste schade aanricht, alcohol, is uitgesloten van deze oorlog tegen drugsgebruikers en -handelaren….. Duterte lust wel een glas of drie!!

Zie ook: ‘Did You Know ISIS is Now in The Philippines? Here’s What You Aren’t Being Told‘ (op Anti-Media; zet uw adblocker aan, zo mist u de vreselijke reclames. De Adblock Plus van Google, voor o.a. Chrome en Firefox doet dit perfect)

Zie ook: ‘Duterte, de Filipijnse neonazi-president heeft de jacht op Filipijnen met een Chinese achtergrond geopend………..

       en: ‘Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen………

       en: ‘Koenders en Rutte, waar blijft jullie commentaar op de standrechtelijke executies in de Filipijnen? Iets teveel Nederlandse handelsbelangen in dat fascistische geregeerde land??

       en: ‘Duterte (massamoordenaar en president Filipijnen) wordt ongemoeid gelaten door Paus Franciscus……..

       en: ‘De wereld moet zich uitspreken tegen de fascistische psychopaat Duterte, president van de Filipijnen

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels die u hieronder aantreft, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Mindanao’.

Leila de Lima, Filipijnse ‘mensenrechtenactivist’ zit gevangen en verkeert in levensgevaar!!

Op 23 februari jl. werd bekend gemaakt, dat één van de weinige vooraanstaande Filipijnse burgers, die commentaar durven te leveren op de bloederige en beestachtige politiek van Duterte, Leila de Lima is gearresteerd door de politie. Het dictatoriale bewind onder de psychopathische moordenaar Duterte heeft haar laten arresteren op verdenking van het aannemen van steekgeld, afkomstig van gevangen zittende ‘drugshandelaren’ (als ze dat al zijn…..)…..

Moet u nagaan, alcohol beschouwt Duterte niet als drug, terwijl deze harddrug verreweg de meeste slachtoffers maakt!! Alleen in Nederland al gemiddeld 12 per dag, kan u nagaan hoeveel alcoholdoden er dagelijks in de Filipijnen vallen, waar men daarnaast ook nog wel eens zelf stookt, door die zelf gebrouwen troep, vallen niet zelden een fiks aantal doden……

De Lima heeft zelfs het buitenland opgeroepen orde op zaken te komen stellen, nadat Duterte het volk opriep iedereen te vermoorden, die iets met drugs te maken heeft*. Intussen zijn hierdoor al meer dan 7.000 moorden gepleegd…….

Het is met deze arrestatie dan ook duidelijk, dat Duterte de Lima uit de weg wil ruimen, immers als je verdacht bent van betrokkenheid bij drugshandel (op wat voor manier dan ook) loop je niet alleen op straat of thuis de kans vermoord te worden, maar ook in de cel is je leven daar niet veilig, zelfs niet in een politiecel……..

Leila de Lima is niet alleen jurist, maar ook senator! Met andere woorden: ook de democratie wordt ernstig geschaad met deze meer dan belachelijke arrestatie.

Gisteren kreeg ik een petitie toegestuurd van het Care2 team (met een paar foute data, de rest klopt als een bus). Lees en teken de petitie a.u.b. het kost u maar een paar minuten! Geeft het a.u.b. door aan familie, vrienden en bekenden!

She
was a senator – now she’s a political prisoner

Free
Leila de Lima from wrongful imprisonment!

Leila
de Lima is a human rights lawyer and senator in the Philippines.
She’s spent her entire career fighting for justice. And now she’s a
political prisoner.


Urge
the Philippines to release Leila de Lima now. Sign the petition!


The
Philippines is drowning in blood. Starting last year, 
President
Duterte has decided to fight drugs in the worst way possible: by
murdering drug users and small dealers.
 Only
a few people have dared to raise their voice in the Philippines to
criticize this violence and inhumanity. And one of them is Leila de
Lima.

De
Lima has tirelessly denounced the bloody war on drugs, which has
claimed thousands of lives. Last year, she led a Senate probe to
investigate extrajudicial killings in President Duterte’s drug
crackdown. 
This
past Tuesday, she pointedly criticized President Duterte. By
Thursday, the police had issued a warrant for her arrest.


The
government claimed she was receiving money from drug traffickers, but
that doesn’t match the facts. De Lima has always had an exemplary
record, and her only crime seems to be voicing her dissent. Human
rights organizations around the world agree: 
this
is political persecution. President Duterte is using harsh drug laws
to silence voices critical of his administration.


It’s
time for people across the globe to unite to help Filipinos like
Leila de Lima, who want to protect human rights and bring an end to
Duterte’s bloody tyranny. 
Help
free Leila de Lima so she can continue her important work in defense
of human rights. Sign the petition demanding that the Philippine
government release her immediately!
 

=====================

Trouwens, opvallend dat de politiek doodstil is, naast een enkele veroordeling van het beleid dat Duterte voert, wordt aan deze arrestatie geen aandacht besteed. Men wil deze psychopathische moordenaar vooral niet voor de schenen schoppen……… Het is duidelijk dat figuren als PvdA jaknikker Koenders, de handelsbelangen alweer ver voor mensenrechten laten gaan. De gang van zaken op de Filipijnen had op z’n minst moeten leiden tot het naar huis sturen van de Filipijnse ambassadeurs, althans in de EU landen……..

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

Duterte, de Filipijnse neonazi-president heeft de jacht op Filipijnen met een Chinese achtergrond geopend………..

De psychopathische neonazi Duterte, die godbetert werd verkozen tot president van de Filipijnen, heeft de Filipijnen van Chinese komaf aangewezen als de importeurs van drugs…….

Dit bericht was vanmorgen te horen in het BBC World Service radionieuws van 10.30 u.

Zoals u wellicht weet: Duterte heeft de oorlog aan drugs verklaard, daarbij moedigt hij moord door burgers en standrechtelijke executies van politie en leger aan op gebruikers, handelaren, koeriers en importeurs van drugs………

Te vrezen valt, dat de Filipijnse bevolking van Chinese komaf, de komende tijd massaal vermoord zal worden……..

Ongelofelijk dat de fascistische psychopathische moordenaar Duterte niet door de westerse regeringen terecht wordt gewezen en in de VN wordt veroordeeld…….. Wat betreft de mislukte PvdA sierdrol Koenders: van hem valt al helemaal niets te verwachten, hij voert op mensenrechtengebied een letterlijk (dood)stille diplomatie……..

Duterte gebruikt zelf de harddrug alcohol en dat door het gebruik van deze uiterst verslavende harddrug verreweg de meeste schade wordt aangericht, meer dan alle drugs bij elkaar opgeteld, zal hem aan z’n vieze reet roesten……. Hetzelfde geldt voor het enorme aantal doden door het gebruik van alcohol (en alweer: meer dan alle andere drugsdoden opgeteld)….

Zie ook: ‘President Duterte van de Filipijnen heeft nu al het bloed van 600 mensen aan z’n handen…… Koenders? Stil!

       en: ‘Trump prijst Duterte die op zijn beurt verkrachtingen aanprijst……..

       en: ‘Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen………

       en: ‘Koenders en Rutte, waar blijft jullie commentaar op de standrechtelijke executies in de Filipijnen? Iets teveel Nederlandse handelsbelangen in dat fascistische geregeerde land??

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