Assalamualaikum,
Cek baca berita ni, dok terpikiaqkan juga hal di Malaysia. Bukanlah apa, berita
ni, omputeh bukan Islam yang dok tulis. Depa juga dok juga dapat membedakan
kekejaman dari puak sendiri. Tapi la ni kat Malaysia, orang Islam dok penjara
dan seksa orang Islam semata kerana perbedaan pendirian politik. Tu belum
cerita lagi pasal tamak harta dunia, sampai sanggup bunuh! Tak tau nak cakap
camna lagi...sedih.
From: "Abu 'Urwah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What a breathtaking read!
Cruel, Callous, Inhumane and Unacceptable.' Published on Saturday, March 31,
2007 by Felicity Arbuthnot
An Open Letter to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, M.P.
Dear Mr Brown,
Standing in Afghanistan, you called the Iranian holding of fifteen British
sailors who it is likely strayed in to Iranian waters: 'Cruel, callous,
inhumane and unacceptable.' Breathtaking.Compared to the behavior of the UK and
US troops, their treatment in Iran is seemingly a health spa.
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is the total destruction of the
country you were standing in. The boiling to death of several thousand
prisoners, held in metal trucks in the sweltering summer, under the watch and
very possibly at the hands of our American allies (complex accounts differ.) It
is the bombing of village after village, of wedding parties and funerals, of
goatherders, farmers, shepherds. It is reducing the country to a radioactive
nightmare, where families bombed out of their homes have been found living in
contaminated bomb craters - and suffering all the signs of radiation poisoning,
according to the Uranium Metal Research Project, bleeding from all orifices
with other accompanying appalling symptoms.
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is the prison at Afghanistan's
Bagram airbase, where people are 'rendered', disappeared, shackled, forced to
wear diapers, their eyes covered, and flown to Guantanamo Bay 'the gulag of our
time', as cited by Amnesty International. Uncharged and untried, with rare
access to lawyers, they are left to rot, between bouts of torturing.
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is Abu Ghraib and the dozens of
other prisons across Iraq, which sprung up under 'liberation', where the
disappeared also languish, between the odd bit of waterboarding (being held
under till near the the point of drowning) being stripped naked, having dogs
attack, having unspeakable items shoved into bodily orifices ('We need
electricity in our homes, not up our asses', said one eventually released
prisoner.)
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is British troops in Basra
pulling kids off the street and beating them up. It is hoisting some mother's
son in netting on a forklift. It is beating a young hotel worker to death, over
two days. Though as usual, the British Courts, find just one person guilty.
Other deaths have led to no one being found guilty. Presumably Iraqis have
taken to beating themselves to death.
'Cruel, callous, inhuman and unacceptable', is allied soldiers raping,
pillaging, demolishing homes, driving over kids in the road, in case they are
'terrorist' kids and toddlers. It is the gang rape of a child called Aber who
was then killed and set alight with the rest of her family. It is the reported
hanging of bodies round tanks in Fallujah and the sickos who collect Iraqi
brain matter as a 'trophy'. It is sending pictures of pathetic mutilated, dead,
burned Iraqis, to porn sites in exchange for free access to shameful images of
another kind.
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is the abandonment of British
residents in Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq, the recently aired fact that torture
included chaining prisoners to bedsteads, bolted to walls (the US Army sure
employs some impressive psychopaths.) It is the six hundred and fifty five
thousand to nine hundred thousand excess Iraqi deaths at the hands of and under
the watch of the 'liberators' (and that was last year's figure.) It is the four
million known to have fled all that is familiar to them, or who are internally
displaced. It is Iraqis and their Palestinian guests, not knowing from day to
day whether they will be expelled from their host country.
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', is the destruction of an entire
civil society, the lynching of its legitimate leaders, the destruction of
Baghdad, the 'Paris of the ninth century', of humanity's history. It is the
statement, last June, of Colleen Graffy, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Diplomacy, devoid of anything remotely connected to humanity, who
said of three prisoners in Guantanamo who committed suicide, rather than live
tortured and shackled, without hope, that their deaths were: ' a good PR move.'
'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable', were thirteen years of sanctions
which cost maybe one and a half million lives, driven by the US and UK.
Followed by an illegal invasion, a war of aggression and thus Nuremberg's
'supreme crime', for which there is a growing demand for those responsible to
be tried. The sailors too and their colleagues could also be tried.
'Cruel, callous inhumane and unacceptable', on a personal note, is the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomats in Baghdad refusing to speak to the
possible kidnappers of Margaret Hassan, who called her husband three times on
her mobile 'phone. It is the refusal of Ken Bigley's brother's plea to search
for Ken via satellite, since he had one leg almost rebuilt with titanium -
which can be picked up by satellites, which are pretty abundant in Iraq's skies.
Lastly, it is worth looking at the website of your former Ambassador to
Uzbekistan, Craig Murray ( www.craigmurray.co.uk) also former Maritime Head of
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 'The Iran-Iraq maritime boundary shown on
the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British
governmentÂ…. (it is) a fake map.' Good Lord, surely not another 'dodgy
dossier'?
Oh and 'cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable behavior', is, if British
arrogance and intransigence ends up with their sailors being banged up for a
long time. Iran offered the release of Faye Turney and British government
intemperate language has seemingly scuppered that. A diplomatic disgrace of
enormity. Yet again, a government 'not fit for purpose' - any purpose.
Felicity Arbuthnot is a London-based writer.
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