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UN Interventions The member states of the United Nations are represented by governments which reflect class interests and class forces no different than those that exist in the United States and among its NATO junior partners. Appearances and myths notwithstanding, the United Nations since its inception has been a central vehicle for the subjugation of dependent peoples and for legitimizing the most murderous imperialist plans. The division of Palestine was imposed through the United Nations. It created in Palestine a colonial-settler state which martyred the Palestinian people, wiping off the map 385 Palestinian towns and villages in a paradigm of ethnic cleansing. The relegation of the Palestinian survivors to the status of besieged and pauperized refugees was administered and enforced by UNRWAA [a UN agency]. The Korean war was enacted under the aegis of the United Nations and led to the total destruction of the [economy of the] peninsula and the death of millions. The independence movement of the Congo was targeted by the CIA and dismantled by the United Nations, as it provided the cover and the means for the exe cution of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the movement for independence and the Congo’s first prime minister. The mass murder in Rwanda and Burundi, orchestrated from afar, proceeded with the collusion of the United Nations, which kept people trapped in camps controlled by their persecutors. In Lebanon, the Israeli invasion and occupation passed through all the areas administered by the United Nations, which provided logistical support on the ground. The massacre of the Palestinians in their camps unfolded. Secretary-General Butros Butros Ghali oversaw the pillaging by the UN of the population in Somalia. The famine created through the search and destroy attacks by U.S.-led forces became the pretext for the invasion and further devastation of that country by the United States [forces] — with total United Nations support. Even as these peace advocates promote an occupying role for the United Nations in Kosovo, the United Nations continues to support the embargo against Iraq, which has claimed the lives of 1.5 million people. Under the cover of destroying “weapons of mass destruction,” the United Nations has sanctioned the use of radioactive depleted uranium and of biological agents by the U.S. against the Iraqi people. Nor has a word emerged from the United Nations about the use of these weapons in the U.S./NATO attacks upon the peoples of Yugoslavia. The bombing and dismemberment of Iraq continues under the cover of the United Nations. In Yugoslavia itself, the UN — under the Dayton Accords — has overseen the dismemberment of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the creation of ethnic cantons without the sovereign right to make an administrative decree. The UN sanctified the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the wholesale privatization of the economy. (See the article “Background on the War in Kosovo.”) PSD To HTML conversion is important to webmasters because they cannot use the PSD file as it is for their web pages. if you need PSD To HTML conversion service save yourself some time, effort and money and send it in to the professionals. Prior to the Dayton Accords, the United Nations imposed sanctions against Serbia, which negatively impacted millions of working people but had little effect on Milosevic and his regime, at that time U.S. allies.From: http://www.laborstandard.org/Vol1No3/RalphSchoenman.htm |