UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is a disgrace to Asia being a bootlicker of Western Imperialists
The West will shower praise as Ban Ki Moon steps down after serving two terms as the Secretary General of the UN. Of course the West has much to thank Ban Ki Moon for. He has been a willing minion and slavish compliant for West’s agendas. He is all that Asian leaders should not be. However, for being a bootlicker and facilitator of western imperial agendas, he will be projected as an Asian hero. Asia’s heroes are certainly not people who help carve the path for interventions and illegal occupations. The colossal loss of lives of innocent people and the chaos as a consequence of these interventions are a testimony of the failure of the UN and denotes the uselessness of the role of UN Secretary General. Ban Ki Moon can never be elevated to the status of the real Asian heroes who rose against western imperialism and fought for independence of their countries that had been forcibly taken, occupied and plundered.
Ban Ki Moon is the anti-thesis of what Asian leaders should be. He cannot come close to the great heroes of Asia who stood up against hegemony of the West.
- Gen. Sukarno led Indonesia’s independence from the Netherlands. Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer once wrote “Sukarno was the only Asian leader of the modern era able to unify people of such differing ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds without shedding a drop of blood.”
- Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh led the independence movement and was a real inspiration to his people.
- Mao Zedong remains one of China’s most respected national leaders. He is founding father of modern China.
- Netaji Subash Chandra Bose was one of India’s most charismatic and dynamic leaders. Ambedkar was to say that it was Subash Chandra Bose and not Gandhi who helped end British rule in India.
- Gen. Aung Sang was an enigmatic figure and for that reason alone the West conspired and killed him.
- Sri Lanka’s Anagarika Dharmapala was one of the founding contributors of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism
The greatness of these personalities is that they stood for their nation and their people. They were spokesmen for no one else but their own. They are hailed as heroes and revered still because they had a vision for their nation and did not carry out visions of other nations. This is what makes them and Ban Ki Moon not poles but planets apart.
The West are welcome to have their own heroes, shower accolades on them but we cannot accept Asians or Africans being turned into our heroes simply because they functioned as lackeys and bootlickers for western agendas. Such people become Western heroes but not Asian or African heroes however way the West will concoct the history.
Ban Ki Moon will belong to the list of South East Asian elites who have ‘forgotten’ the tens of millions of Asians murdered by Western imperialism at the end and after WW2 – so says Andre Vltchek who brings the examples of Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, liquidation of Korean civilians by US forces, chemicals used in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines and East Timor. Laos became the most ‘bombed country in the world’. Historian John Bacher in his book ‘The Secret War’ says more bombs were dropped in Laos between 1965-1973 than the US dropped on Japan & Germany during WW2 killing more than 350,000 people.
All of the Wests crimes are forgiven and forgotten but it expects differently from others. As Vltchek points out “empire is proudly pivoting into Asia: it is even bragging about it”. If the empire has no shame and no decency left, boasting democracy and freedom while not bothering to wash the blood of tens of millions it killed, South East Asians like Ban Ki Moon should feel ashamed to be aligned to these objectives.
Ban Ki Moon joins a list of ‘privileged populaces’ in Asia who are educated in the West and invariably conditioned to chose to not know, not remember’ and Ban Ki Moon joins the coterie of the same Asian privileged populace who are silencing those who insist Asia remembers.
The media lies projecting US occupation as a benevolent colonialism has even made Asians believe America has done them a favour although 1million Philippinos were murdered – Prof Teresa S Encarnacion Tadem says ‘Philippines love Americans more than Americans love themselves’. Other nations will vouche for the same attitude.
Ban Ki Moon thus is one of many other Asians who are servants of capitalism, Western imperialism and are now encouraging neo-colonialism. They are not shy to admiringly refer to nations and individuals who murdered millions of people are beacons of progress, democracy and freedom as Vitchek points out.
The Western media ensures the truth is hidden and Western cultures and heroes are idolized. As Vitchek rightly says selective amnesia will soon backfire and boomerang as history always repeats itself and Asia is likely to once again fall because of lackeys like Ban Ki Moon.
Ban Ki Moon is part of the Western-educated Asians who want the rest of Asia to forgive the West and forget its crimes while elsewhere the West continues its crimes with impunity. Whatsmore the West is paying to forgive and forget through the bribe of funding. Any nation challenging the West is sure to be slapped with sanctions or denied funding!
Imposing apology by taking Sri Lankans on a guilt trip through successive reports, statements and using paid activists is part of the UN plan.
The UNSG went out of line to categorize Sri Lanka’s conflict alongside Rwanda and Srebrenica all aimed at justifying another UN intervention.
The complicity and compliance of the UN & the UNSG to lies in both Rwanda and Srebrenica and countless other nations is a good example of the lies being dished out to justify intervention in Sri Lanka. If Sri Lanka has committed war crimes why is UNSG and UNHRC shying from tabling their reports before the UNGA and UNSC? Its been 7 years and only fairytales but the UN has managed to use below belt tactics and rope in locals prop them into prominent roles and positions in Sri Lanka and then get them to do what the UN system cannot by handing over all sovereign powers of the country to be monitored and administered by the UN.
The ‘feeling ashamed’ of ‘not preventing a genocide’ is a regular feature of all UNSG’s reports/statements. Just as there is a history to the Tutsis & Hutus, there is a history to Sri Lanka’s conflict as well. However, LTTE was an enemy to all communities making Sri Lanka’s case a non-international armed conflict by a group using terrorist tactics against all communities.
In Rwanda during 100 days over 800 people were murdered starting on April 6, 1994 after the UN pulled out of Rwanda and following the killing of Rwandan President Habyarimana when his plane was shot down. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of the UN peace-keeping requested reinforcements. They were not sent. The West rescue their citizens omitting Rwandans including local staff from their embassies. France is directly accused of playing a role in the genocide. How can UN have a tribunal omitting investigating the West’s role and UN complicity in hiding West’s role and then shed crocodile tears about feeling sorry? Will a tribunal funded by the West ever result in exposing West’s role in murder? Sarkozy even admitted ‘errors’ had contributed to the 1994 genocide. As for the Rwanda tribunal which cost £11 million per indictee. Couldn’t this money be better used? 20 years of arguments, it took 8 years to find 2 guilty of inciting genocide in 2011.
Ban Ki next compares Sri Lanka to Srebrenica massacre. That too was widely publicized as being a genocide. The US/NATO attack on Yugoslavia was nothing but a war of aggression. It was a violation of the UN Charter. In 1995 a draft resolution produce by Britain at the UNSC was voted by Russia – www.youtube.com
Serbians were like the Sinhalese ridiculed using media lies.
In the case of Srebrenica, western media turned what was 2000 combat deaths of Bosnian-Muslims to 8000 ‘executions of POWs) while in Sri Lanka’s case 40000 figure is being flogged without evidence. In Srebrenica after 5 years only 160 mass graves have been found but no one knows whose bodies they are.
The western mainstream media has demonized President Milosevic and put him into prison, the day he sent word to the Russian embassy of being poisoned he was found dead in his cell. After 16 years we are told that Milosevic did not commit war crimes. We will be damned if we allow Sri Lanka’s war heroes to face a barrage of similar lies to be told decades later they did not commit what they were accused of just because vested parties wanted to lock them up and put them away while they carried out their plans.
The UNSG has been regularly calling Sri Lanka’s new government and congratulating them on good governance and ending nepotism but we now hear that the UN Chief has given his own son-law a topjob in the UN system. Expanding Indian imperialism within the UN a former IPKF officer is now the UN Coordinator for East Africa. Reminds us of how the former UNSG Kofi Annan’s son was also involved in the Oil-For-Food Iraq scandal.
That UNSG’s son-in-law is an Indian and an IPKF officer means that Indian involvement in LTTE’s creation and destabilizing of Sri Lanka by armed militants and Indian intelligence will be omitted from any investigation whatsoever. You cannot have accountability when the source and root of terrorism in Sri Lanka is not investigated. Are these marriages of political convenience we must wonder!
The subject of recusal came when calls were made to Navi Pillai to remove herself from investigating Sri Lanka being herself and ethnic Tamil. The truth of that came when she did not hesitate to become chief guest of LTTE fronts after leaving office!
The path that the UN is taking on behalf of the neo-colonial imperialists is to make countries feel guilty, make them believe that their nation is a failed state, brainwash their minds into feeling sorry (for what they have not committed but which the media claims they have) and in this way by slowly denationalizing, demoralizing and taking away the people’s passion to serve and protect their nation they are slowly advocating to abdicate the nation’s sovereignty to the UN and the West.
UN is slowly helping create the path for imperialism. Sri Lanka is another likely victim unless we all rise against it. The Western Government funded NGOs are the ‘civil society’ whose fundings are never investigated but who bankroll local politicians and movements thus building the foundation for the required change. There is no accountability for these western bankrolled NGOs and the preposterous situation is how a NGO man is drafting SL”s constitution while being funded by foreign governments and the office of missing persons office too is to run by foreign funds and foreigners as well. Where is the sovereignty under local locals? It is obvious that the UN has managed to take over sovereign powers of Sri Lanka.
This is why the present UNSG though an Asian is a disgrace to Asia. As West pivots to again fleece Asia we have a man sitting in an airconditioned room in the West shamelessly working as a stooge and working to turn nations of Asia to the same level of misery the UN & West has made out of Africa, Middle East and East Europe.
Those who comply with the West are no heroes. They are traitors. He became an evangelical Christian because without becoming a Christian there was no career progress. Hailing from a once Buddhist majority country, South Korea prides itself in sending Christian evangelical missionaries.
Ban Ki Moon is what Asian leaders should never be. He has made UN an instrument to serve western imperialism and he is no hero in our eyes.
Russia and China cannot watch as West pivots to destroy Asia.
Shenali D Waduge
- www.sundaytimes.lk – Ban’s bombshell compares Lanka with Rwanda and Srebrenica
- www.sundaytimes.lk – UN Chief gives top post to his IPKF son-in-law
- www.counterpunch.org
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