McKinney - Annan And The
UN Are Stained With Blood
By Cynthia A. McKinney
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/news/pr011116.htm
4-17-2
(Extensions of Remarks - November 16, 2001) HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY OF
GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, November 16, 2001 * Mr.
Speaker, now I think I've just about seen and heard everything: Kofi Annan
and the United Nations being announced as joint recipients of this year's
Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying there wasn't a time in the UN's history
when it wasn't deserved. What I'm saying is I don't believe it's deserved
right now. Instead, I believe that to award the UN and Kofi Annan now amounts
to an insult to the millions that have died at the hands of the United
Nations in recent years. * Mr. Speaker, Kofi Annan and the United Nations
are stained with the blood of millions of dead people. * Let me tell you
about some of their recent failures. * Let me start with their greatest
failure--Rwanda. The 1994 Rwandan genocide must amount to one of the greatest
humanitarian failures of any generation. Kofi Annan was the Director of UN
Peacekeeping based in New York and was personally responsible for the UN
Peace Keeping force in Rwanda. The now famous informant Jean Pierre had
warned Dallaire and the UN leadership of the coming mass slaughter but his
information was cavalierly dismissed. Tragically, as had been predicted,
Rwanda exploded into an orgy of violence the likes of which the last century
had never seen. At the end of 100 days an estimated 1,000,000 Rwandan men,
women, and children had been bludgeoned, macheted, and axed to death. The
daily death rate was five times that of the Nazi industrial death camps.
Instead of reinforcing the UN contingent in Kigali, the UN actually ordered
the withdrawal of their troops. It was then that the killing in Kigali
exploded. Of course, the US bears much of the blame for the UN's inaction.
* And now the much-celebrated International Tribunal for Rwanda has become
yet another UN bureaucratic disaster. Repeated UN investigations have found
widespread mismanagement, wastage, incompetence, and corruption. The Tribunal
has prosecuted a fraction of the Rwandan genocide suspects it holds in
custody. It has even been criticized by its own Appeal Court of prosecutorial
incompetence and failing to observe elementary due process considerations.
Sadly, the Tribunal, which should have brought justice to the region, has
instead become another multi-million dollar UN boondoggle. Srebrenica, a name
now associated with one of the worst crimes in Europe since WWII or as Judge
Riad of the ICTY described it, ``..... a place where thousands of men were
executed, hundreds buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered,
children killed before their mother's eyes, and a grandfather was forced to
eat the liver of his own grandson.'' These are truly scenes from hell written
on the darkest pages of human history. The UN created a safe haven in
Srebrenica and encouraged civilians to enter en masse so as to be under UN
military protection. Only one condition applied--entry into the UN safe haven
required Muslim fighters to surrender their weapons. This they did, hoping
that if ever the need arose they would get them back. They were to be sorely
disappointed on that score. * When it became apparent that General Mladic
was separating the men from the women and then killing them in the nearby
fields, the Dutch UN troops began pleading for UN military support. But, just
like Rwanda, the UN leadership once again became paralyzed and failed. They
dithered over air strikes, they refused to send in troops to help the
beleaguered Dutch and in the end, just as with Rwanda, the UN withdrew their
troops. This permitted General Mladic to remove an estimated 5,000-8,000
Muslims from in and around the UN compound in Potocari and slaughter them.
* To this day the United Nations and no UN official has ever been held
criminally or civilly liable, let alone even publicly admonished, for their
massive failures in Srebrenica. All the families of the thousands of victims
can do now is pick up the pieces of their broken families and attempt to
restart their lives. * Mr. Speaker, sadly there is more. * East Timor. In
late August 1999, the UN and now Secretary General Annan, called for
elections on the small island country of East Timor despite disturbing
evidence that hard line elements in the Indonesian military were preparing to
cause wide spread public disorder so as to disrupt the elections. The UN
failed to provide adequate protection for the civilian population. Dili was
burnt to the ground and East Timor was engulfed in violence. After weeks of
killing and millions of dollars of damage, the Australian government sent in
ground troops to restore order to East Timor; but by then, it was too late to
save East Timor from UN bungling. * Sierra Leone. So bad was the UN's
conduct in Sierra Leone in June 2000 that their long time supporter and
friend, Medicins Sans Frontieres, felt compelled to speak out and complain.
MSF complained bitterly that the UN troops fled a RUF attack on the Sierra
Leonean town of Kabala. * In so doing MSF said that the UN had failed its
mandate to protect civilian populations, many of whom were sick women and
malnourished children in the MSF hospital. * Cambodia. There is now
mounting evidence that UN Peacekeeping troops actually caused an explosion of
AIDS in Cambodia in 1992. In January of this year Richard Holbrooke, the then
US Ambassador to the UN, launched an unprecedented attack upon the UN during
his last UTN address saying ``..... it would be the cruelest of ironies if
people who had come to end war ..... were spreading the most deadly of
diseases ..... it will kill more people and undermine more societies than
even the most critical conflicts we discuss here.'' And despite Ambassador
Holbrooke's warnings there are concerns that right now in East Timor UN staff
could be causing yet another AIDS epidemic. Some things just never seem to
change. * Mr. Speaker, let me put it squarely on the record. I believe in
the UN. I believe that our country should support the UN. But I do not think
that we should blindly lend our support in the face of massive negligence.
* I think answers to these questions beg to be asked: * After such repeated
UN failures to act upon knowledge of impending humanitarian disasters, what
forgiveness? * After such repeated UN failures to discharge their sacred
duties, what accountability? * After such ongoing complicity by the UN in
repeated slaughters, what punishment? ___ Comment From Paul Walker
Subject: McKINNEY: KOFI ANNAN AND UNITED NATIONS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD Date:
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:48:28 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr
2002 09:48:32.0369 (UTC) FILETIME=[08FDE610:01C1E5F5] Maybe someday, even
the Democratic Socialists will realize that the UN was born from bloodshed,
benefits from it, feeds on it and is never going to change that policy as
chaos and war just make it stronger and more dominant. Just a coincidence?
No. That was exactly what the globalists had in mind when they created it
to centralize power and destroy all national boundaries along with
constitutional rights by any Machiavellian means necessary. All to impose a
global New World "Order Through Chaos". That is why its logo is masonic blue
with 33 sections in common with the 33 degrees. Who thinks that they have
the right to dictate to the masses? The UN. Who benefits from terrorism? The
UN. Who is selling sex slaves in the Balkans? The UN. Who is withholding food
from children in Africa unless they put out sexually? The UN. Who
deliberately lets millions die in wars and genocide? The UN. Who is planning t
o exterminate the majority of the human race in a grand ritual sacrifice to
Gaia? The UN. Its not an issue of failure Cynthia. Quite the contrary. The
UN is a smashing success among the masonic globalists. It was born of evil
and it will continue on that path until it is abolished.
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