| By Joseph Farah
Between The Lines
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
You may have missed it over the Labor Day weekend when few of us
are paying attention to the news.
But the London Observer reported that former United Nations Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali played a leading role in supplying weapons
to the Hutu regime that carried out a campaign of genocide against
the Tutsi tribe in 1994.
As minister of foreign affairs in Egypt, Boutros-Ghali facilitated
an arms deal in 1990, which was to result in $26 million of mortar
bombs, rocket launchers, grenades and ammunition being flown from
Cairo to Rwanda. The arms were used by Hutus in attacks which led
to up to a million deaths. The
role of Boutros-Ghali, who was in charge at the UN when it turned
its back on the killings in 1994, is revealed in a book by Linda
Melvern.
In "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide,"
Boutros-Ghali admits his role in approving an initial $5.8 million
arms deal in 1990, which led to Egypt supplying arms to Rwanda until
1992. He says he approved it because it was his job as foreign minister
to sell weapons for
Egypt.
Did you catch that? It was just his job. Sound familiar?
The weapons were smuggled into Rwanda disguised as relief material.
At the time there was an international outcry at human rights abuses
by the Hutu government as thousands of Tutsi were massacred. Asked
about the wisdom of an arms deal at such a sensitive time, Boutros-Ghali
said he did not think that a "few thousand guns would have
changed the situation." His contacts
with the Hutu regime have never been investigated.
I raise this anecdote from the past as the United Nations gets
set to hold its much-ballyhooed Millennium Summit in New York beginning
today. This is a meeting that, organizers say, could change the
way the world is governed, increase the power of the U.N. and usher
in a new era of global peace.
The record of the U.N., however, should lead every thinking person
to the opposite conclusion.
The U.N. is not just, as many Americans suspect, a group of incompetent
busybodies. It is, instead, a global criminal enterprise determined
to shift power away from individuals and sovereign nation-states
to a small band of unaccountable international elites.
Way back in June 1997, I first warned of the emerging pattern of
U.N. peacekeeping atrocities.
WorldNetDaily raised the visibility of scattered stories appearing
in Agence France-Presse, the South China Morning Post and the London
Telegraph.
The London Telegraph, in a combined dispatch with AFP, reported
that Belgian troops roasted a Somali boy. Roasted him! And what
was the sentence for this peace crime committed during an operation
dubbed ironically "Restore Hope"? A military court sentenced
two paratroopers to a month in jail and a fine of 200 pounds.
Another Belgian soldier reportedly forced a young Somali to eat
pork, drink salt water and then eat his own vomit. Another sergeant
was accused of murdering a Somali whom he was photographed urinating
upon. Another child, accused of stealing food from the paratroopers'
base, died after being
locked in a storage container for 48 hours. Fifteen other members
of the same regiment were investigated in 1995 for "acts of
sadism and torture" against Somali civilians.
The pattern of abuse was not confined to Belgian troops. Belgium
is actually the third country in the peacekeeping group to charge
troops with serious crimes against Somali citizens -- including
rape, torture and murder. In 1995, a group of Canadian paratroopers
were investigated for torturing a
Somali to death and killing three others.
Gruesome photos were published in a Milan magazine of Italian soldiers
torturing a Somali youth and abusing and raping a Somali girl. Paratroopers
claim they were specifically trained in methods of torture to aid
interrogation. According to one witness, Italian soldiers tied a
young Somali girl to the front of an armored personnel carrier and
raped her while officers looked on.
Few other news agencies -- especially in the United States -- have
devoted any coverage to these atrocities. The Village Voice was
one notable exception.
The South China Morning Post published an AFP report about an Italian
battalion commander who sexually abused and strangled a 13-year-old
Somali boy. There are also allegations that, in 1993, Italian soldiers
beat seven suspected Somali thieves, killing one; that they beat
to death a 14-year-old boy who sold a false medal and beat a couple
in a car.
An Italian paratrooper was quoted as saying: "What's the big
deal? They are just niggers anyway."
Remember all this when you watch the glowing TV news reports from
the Millennium Summit this week. Think of all this when you read
the coverage of the event and see it proclaimed as the greatest
development in government since the Continental Congress.
This is the real New World Order, folks -- where, when you get
right down to it, we're all just niggers anyway.
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