Who is a terrorist and what is terrorism ?
The definitions vary, but all definitions have been made by some one from the repressive West. The West or the International Community which always had come forward to pontificate , educate and advise the rest of the world, had always been the terrorists of the world. The International Community took up the roll of bringing "the people …..from barbarism to civilization" forcing their Christian civilization down the “throats” of the conquered nations.
The great task of defining all that was out side their “Civilization” as savage barbarism fell on the “intellectuals” of the West. In bringing its civilization to these” savages “ , “barbarians” or “ non-believers- the heretics”, burning them alive to make them give up their ancestral “barbaric beliefs” to accept its God was a holy war. We have for that the example of the Inquisition which was an institution of the Roman Catholic Church..
Looking back into the horror that the conquering West brought to the people of those conquered nations, it is right to think of those “ conquerors “ as terrorists.
It is therefore necessary to see how the Western “Intellectuals” themselves defined a terrorist and terrorism. A terrorist is defined as, “… a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon, or a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities.”
Then they defines act of terrorism, terrorism as – “..the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.”
Wikipedia states , « In the meantime, the international community adopted a series of sectoral conventions that define and criminalize various types of terrorist activities. In addition, since 1994, the United Nations General Assembly has condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism: "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them”.
However when we trace back into the history the West the International Community had been the worst terrorists through its wars to bring “ its civilization” to the rest of the world. The torture and savagery inflicted on the people of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century by Spanish conquistadors is unimaginable. They forced them to give up their ancestral beliefs by torturing and mutilating them and by burning them alive in stakes to force others to accept their God.
And there were the wars called the Crusades organized by the Pope and the Roman Catholic Europeans (strangely ) France and the Holy Roman Empire against the Sarrasins the people of the Muslim faith whom they called the pagans in the 16th Century. The crusades continued for 200 years where the Arabs and Jews were massacred to free the Holy Land.
In these Crusades, many atrocities were committed against the Arabs and Jews . The Wikipedia writes, “…They proceeded to massacre the remaining Jewish and Muslim civilians and pillaged or destroyed mosques and the city itself. One historian has written that the "isolation, alienation and fear" felt by the Franks (French) so far from home helps to explain the atrocities they committed, including the cannibalism which was recorded after the Siege of Ma'arra in 1098.
After liberating Jerusalem they settled down creating their own State, which finally gave rise to several other Crusades which became a war against non-Christians.
The International Community conquered countries and brutalized the inhabitants, in South Africa Apartheid, “ A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa.” That was also a brutal terrorism against the Africans- the children of Africa.
When the British colonized Sri Lanka the Sinhala people in Wellassa rose in rebellion against the British. The British forces subjugated the rebels by burning villages and killing all youth over 18 years of Age. It was repeated by the British in Matale where there was another rebellion against the occupying British colonials.
In India Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, British Indian Army Officer opened fire on unarmed civilians, including women and children, who had gathered at Jallianwalla Bagh to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations which are both a religious and a cultural festival of the Punjabis, it came to be known later as the Amritsar massacre.
In Kenya the British Colonial Government ruled that taking the Mau Mau oath a capital offence. Between 1953 and 1956 more than 1,000 Africans were hanged for alleged Mau Mau crimes. Public hangings, which had been outlawed in Britain for over a century, were carried out in Kenya during the emergency .
Professor Lonsdale explains, "A mobile gallows was transported around the country dispensing 'justice' to 'Mau Mau' suspects.... Dead 'Mau Mau', especially commanders, were displayed at cross-roads, at market places and at administrative centres."
(http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/36/026.html)
In Algeria the Colonial Government of France killed and tortured thousands of Algerians . « An important watershed in the War of Independence was the massacre of civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville in August 1955. Before this operation, FLN policy was to attack only military and government-related targets. The wilaya commander for the Constantine region, however, decided a drastic escalation was needed. The killing by the FLN and its supporters of 123 people, including old women and babies, shocked Soustelle into calling for more repressive measures against the rebels. The government claimed it killed 1,273 guerrillas in retaliation; according to the FLN, 12,000 Muslims perished in an orgy of bloodletting by the armed forces and police, as well as colon gangs. After Philippeville, all-out war began in Algeria. »
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/algeria.htm)
In Vietnam the French and Americans continued massacre of the Vietcong and whole villages suspected of having given protection to Vietcong were burnt and people massacred.
USA is built on the blood of the native American Indians. The Ku klux Klan in America killed and lynched innumerable number of Black Americans for the crime of being « Black »
The International Community led by America was responsible for the dropping of Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is these very same terrorists - the International Community, which has to-day declared war on the Sovereign State of Libya, on the pretext to avoid a blood bath of civilians in Bengazi.
In avoiding a blood bath in Bengazi by the armed forces of Colonel Gaddafi, the International Community is bombarding all over Libya covering up death of civilians by maintaining a silence on the death of civilians in bombardments..
The Resolution 1973 of the UN Security Council was just a means for them to move into Libya and bombard with the one and only objective of getting rid of Gaddafi. It was similar to the « lie » George Bush put forward, that Iraq is in possession of weapons of Mass destruction to declare war in Iraq and assassinate Sadam Hussain.
The latest information is that NATO has taken over the command of the military operations in Libya. There was no real threat to Bengazi by the Armed Forces of Gaddafi for the forced intervention and bombardment by the International Community.
The uprising in Benghazi was not much more than it was any where else in Libya at the time. It would have been brought under control by Colonel Gaddafi without an “imagined” blood bath, but Nicholas Sarkozi seeing the opportunity to counter Colonel Gaddafi’s threat that Europe will be left out from Libyan oil distribution, hastened to recognize a few diaspora Libyans as a provisional government of Libya to start his « Crusade » to get a nominal sanction from the UN Security Council to declare war in Libya.
As the resolution 1973 of the UN Security council does not authorise bombardment of Libya and demand Colonel Gaddafi to leave Libya, the International Community has over stepped the mandate under resolution 1973 and they are therefore « terrorists » interfering militarily in the Sovereign State of Libya.
The Secretary General of UN if he has any « guts » he should demand the International Community to desist from further military involvement in Libya. Failing that Ban Ki Moon should resign from his post of Secretary General of UNO in which he has become a nonentity, a mere puppet manipulated by the International Community.
The UN resolution approving military intervention in Libya does not allow for any pursuit of regime change . But the International Community arguing that as long as Gaddafi remains in power, his people are in danger wants to bomb the Colonel Gaddafi’s residence, to do away with him. They did that once in 1986 but failed to kill him but killed his daughter instead.
If the International Community kills Gaddafi in an aerial bombardment it will amount to an assassination and in that event the International Community should be hauled before a war crimes Tribunal.
The war crazy International Community has become an enemy number one of the World, specially of the developing Nations today, as it has taken on itself to decide which government in which country should be in place and which government should be « dismissed » by its military intervention.
In the face of the « terrorism » unleashed by of Internationa Community in Libya, the terrorism of Al Qeida, Talibans and LTTE terrorists fades into insignificance .
The Arab Sates as well as all independent Nations, should unite to call the International Community to stop its military adventure in Libya. It will be Libya today and yet another tomorrow.
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