Amnesty International: A Weapon of Anglo-Zionist Imperialism

A good idea hi-jacked by sinister forces. People in the West have been brought up to think of Amnesty International in terms of the utmost reverence. Fearless advocates of the political prisoner, and resolute opponent of oppression everywhere. Didn’t Amnesty USA even call for the arrest of George Bush Junior for war crimes? No cosying up to the establishment there. A brave picture, indeed, but does it stand up to closer scrutiny? Our suspicions begin to rise when we consider that Amnesty Internation (AI) was the only human rights group in the world that refused to condemn Apartheid or the South African Apartheid regime. AI has never once called for an arms embargo against the Israeli Apartheid regime. Very few political prisoners in any Anglophone country have ever enjoyed the support of AI. AI was founded in London, in July 1961, by English labour lawyer, Peter Benenson. According to his own account, he had been motivated by the case of two Portuguese students, who had been imprisoned by the Fascist regime for chanting pro-democracy slogans. And, for the first decades of it’s existence, AI became associated with the representation of political prisoners. In the 1970s, the profile of AI was lifted by the involvement of famous human rights lawyers, such as Seán MacBride. An annual fundraising event, ironically titled, The Secret Policeman’s Ball, and begun in 1976, drew the top names in British showbiz talent to the support of AI. By this time, the organisation was gaining a type of Mother Teresa, saintly aura. In 1977, AI was awarded the Noble Peace Prize. The organization seemed above reproach. But, criticism did begin to be heard. In 1980, the USSR accused AI operatives of spying for the US government. Several other governments, including Morocco, accused AI of actively inciting violent incidents in their countries. Some people began to suspect that the utility of AI as a propaganda weapon had not been lost on the CIA and MI6. Funding to AI grew enormously during the Reagan era, as AI pumped out an almost daily barrage of horror stories against the USSR and other Socialist states. During this time, AI’s centre of administration moved from London to New York, and AI became much more openly associated with US geo-political ambitions. For a while, after the attacks on the Twin Towers, in 2001, AI found itself in a difficult position. It was regarded with some suspicion by the US administration, as many of the rank and file members of AI wanted to take the US to task over its open use of kidnapping and torture. To protect itself against too direct a confrontation with the US administration, AI broadened the scope of its activities to include such issues as women’s rights, and it slowly lessened it’s focus on political prisoners. It still continued to pump out reports against states that dared to oppose Anglo-Saxon imperialism, such as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK.) With the release of the 2011 AI report, Year of Rebellion: Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, AI has found a new and very dangerous niche position for itself – regime change. Without a doubt, AI was one of the main NGO’s that supplied the UN with the false information the Anglo-Zionists needed to carry out their conquest of Libya. The report contains gems like this one: “Young and old, women and children, killed, injured, disappeared – every family we have met here in Misratah has had its share of pain and loss.” Amnesty International research team, Misratah, 25 May 2011 We can see from the tone and content, that fact took a very secondary place to the task of stirring up the emotions of a Western public against the Libyan government. The report continues: “On 1 January 2011 it would have been hard to imagine that anti-government protests would spread across Libya and evolve by late February into an armed conflict that would transform the oil-rich North African state.” Indeed, this is correct. It would be very hard indeed, to imagine that a population with one of the highest standards of living in the world would wish to utterly destroy their nation, and turn it into another Iraq, with armed gangs and lynch mobs plundering, murdering and raping at will. The authors of the report, at this point, abandon reality altogether, and abandon themselves to a flight of sheer fantasy: “Draconian legislation outlawed dissent and the establishment of independent organizations. Hundreds of political prisoners were being detained arbitrarily. Special courts were sentencing opponents after grossly unfair trials. Impunity for torture, extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances was deeply entrenched. Calls for truth and justice by families of the some 1,200 detainees killed in the notorious Abu Salim Prison in 1996 were being ignored. Foreign nationals were living under risk of arrest, indefinite detention for “immigration offences” and torture and other ill-treatment.” In fact, over four months into the misrule of the NATO backed NTC, no evidence has ever been found that detainees were killed in Abu Salim Prison. Immigrant workers were treated far better in the Libyan Jamahiriya than in most North African or European countries. It was under the NTC that immigrants fled for their lives. Under al-Gaddafi, they flocked to Libya in their millions. Human rights groups were concerned about five questionable deaths in Libyan police hands during the five years up until 2011. There were five questionable deaths in British police hands in one month alone in 2011. Libya had one of the world’s lowest prison populations – five times lower than that of the USA. Indeed, a UN report in 2010 had praised Libya for its commitment to human rights, and urged it to continue with its good work. Persons kidnapped by the British and the US régimes, and handed over to Libya to be tortured, were, instead, released. Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, current military governor of Tripoli, confirms this to be true. He was a victim of British state kidnapping. Outside of this infamous report, Amnesty International was party to the propagation of two of the most insidious lies, which were used to justify the attack on Libya. One would have been comical, if it’s effects were not so murderous. The lie was that the Libyan government had supplied Viagra to its troops, so that they could rape unarmed protestors. Lurid accounts were then splashed all over the Western media of these “rapes.” Taped evidence was then supplied to the International Criminal Court, and an arrest warrant was issued for Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. It turned out that the “evidence” were well known Arabic porno movies. But, the ICC failed to drop the charges, or to apologize for it’s disgraceful behaviour. Amnesty International eventually admitted that the story was a complete fabrication – but not until after the Libyan state had been overthrown. The next lie that Amnesty was to the fore in propagating never had anything of a comical nature, and was genocidal from the very start. The lie was that Black members of the Libyan security forces were “mercenaries,” specially brought in from Sub-Saharan Africa, for the purpose of torturing and murdering peaceful protestors. This lie was then picked up by other groups, such as the Irish Anti-War Movement, and used to call for a “No Fly Zone” to keep out the “mercenary flights.” Needless to say, this lie gave cover to the most insidious element of the whole tragedy in Libya, i.e. the racist hatred of extremist groups towards all people with dark skin. Now, they had cover and carte blanche to carry out hundreds of public lynchings of Black people, and mass ethnic cleansing – such as the evacuation of the entire population of Tawargha - 30, 000 Black people forced out of their homes and into the desert, or into concentration camps set up by the rebels - where, to this day, they continue to be tortured, raped and murdered. A fact that even AI has been forced to admit. Amnesty eventually admitted that they never had any evidence of the Libyan government using mercenaries, and that, in fact, thousands of mercenaries, from all over the world, had been used by the NATO side. But, needless to say, they only made this admission – once the USA, Britain, France and Israel had got what they wanted in Libya. The dirty work of imperialism now done in Libya, Amnesty International has moved on to targeting the Syrian state. In the next part of this essay, we will focus on the AI’s activities against the Syrian People.

Amnesty International's Ongoing Psy-Ops War against the Syrian People

In it's report "Year of Rebellion: Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa," Amnesty International (AI) begins it's assault on Syria with the following obscene fantasy: “I will crush the throat of your son with my foot. I will return him to you like Ghayath Mattar” Words a security force officer allegedly said to the mother of 22-year-old Muhammad Muhammad Al Hamwi when her son and husband were arrested. No attempt is made to substantiate this wild claim. It is simply presented at face value. As if the underlying message is: Don't you know that Amnesty International would not have recounted this story - if it were not true. Sadly, AI has good reason to be confident that the vast majority of it's readers will, indeed, accept this story-from-nowhere as concrete fact. Surely, a Nobel Prize winning NGO like Amnesty International would not lie about such grave matters... But, as we have shown in the Libyan case above, AI does lie. And it's lies are almost exclusively directed at states who dare to stand in the way of the neo-liberal agenda of the United States and Britain. Incredibly, AI continues its report with the following shocking statement: "In early 2011, as unrest swept across much of the Middle East and North Africa, it appeared that Syrians might be too fearful to challenge their government." Was ever a more blatant call for violence made? Here we have an organization, which won the Nobel Peace Prize, openly goading a population into armed rebellion. Clearly, the generally peaceful reaction of the Syrian people to the so called "Arab Spring" was a matter of grave disappointment to Amnesty. However, Amnesty was not to be disappointed for too long. The report crows that by the end of March 2011, Syria was descending nicely into the same kind of sectarian civil war that has destroyed Iraqi and Libyan society. I will spare my readers the lurid and gleefully lying accounts that AI gives of the violence, but, you may read this infamous report for yourselves online. In the meantime, AI has set about letter writing campaigns to have the name of President Bashar al-Assad sent to the discredited "International Criminal Court," and petitions have been made to the UN Security Council to visit the same kind of Holocaust on Syria that was rained down on Libya. AI has set up a supposed "interactive" website called "Eyes on Syria," with propagates lies about the Syrian state, but refuses to allow anyone to post criticism of NATO's role in arming and funding violence in Syria. The courageous action of Russia and China, in preventing a sectarian Holocaust in Syria has been viciously attacked by AI, and, as soon as these countries had vetoed NATO's plan to attack Syria, AI set about organizing a letter writing campaign to slander these nations. Of course, it would be ridiculous to imagine that either Russia or China would be influenced by AI's orchestrated letters campaigns, but this is not the objective. The objective is to add to the general "accepted wisdom" in Western countries that war against Syria is right and proper, and that no opposition to this war can be accepted in "respectable" society. Needless to say, AI has given no credit to the outstanding achievement of Syria's new Draft Constitution, the outstanding achievement of holding a democratic referendum in a country under such vicious terrorist attack, or the outstanding bravery of the Syrian security forces in protecting millions of Syrian citizens, as they exercised their democratic right to vote in 14,000 polling stations all over Syria. No doubt, if the Syrian people have accepted the Draft Constitution, AI will join with Hillary Clinton, and all the other rabid dogs of war, in crying that the result is a "fix." This despite the fact that the Syrian government invited any and all international observers to come and verify that all procedures were correct and adhered to. Amnesty International continues to use its websites and publications to propagate unsubstantiated reports from terrorist sources, and presents them as fact. It ignores statements from the Syrian government, and presents "tweets" from unknown persons, in unknown locations, as having more credibility than verifiable statements from the government. So the question is, why would any NGO behave in such an obscene fashion? Particularly, after seeing the results of it's behaviour in Libya - well over 100,000 people dead, and a country ruined and under the misrule of ISIS and other Islamic terrorist gangs.