Eritrea:There is only one independent government in the Horn of Africa - Mr
William Spring
July 20, 2013 |
[image: Mr-William-Spring-620]Remarks made by William Spring _at_ the opening
ceremony of the Eritrean Festival 13/14 July 2013 in London
Your Excellency, Minister, friends & distinguished guests:
I speak here today as a foreign policy analyst (Director of CANAUK) & not
as general secretary of Employees Representatives, an independent public
service trade union.
My first contact with the community was in the mid 1980's when I worked in
Riyadh.
The Bicycle Roundabout Jeddah. Near that particular roundabout was an
underground Christian church. Underground because as you know all Christian
churches of whatever type are banned in the KSA.
One day the metowah descended upon this Church. I will call it "the lost
church".
Its Eritrean worshipers were arrested, held by the Saudis & then, I assume,
deported, back to an Eritrea still in a state of war. This was only one of
innumerable human rights violations by the KSA _at_ that time & which continue
up to the present day. Of course there was an immediate diplomatic protest
from the US & UK - or was there? Not a squeak.
For years Western powers have kept quiet about the continuing reign of
terror in Saudi Arabia, the slave state, where torture is endemic, where
human rights not least for women simply do not exist, Saudi Arabia with
Qatar, in the vanguard of democracy for Syria!!
Fast forward to 2012.
It was then I heard to my astonishment that the UK, the EU & the UN were
seeking to institute a regime of sanctions, not against the KSA but its
much smaller neighbor across the Red Sea, Eritrea!!
Can anyone think of anything more daft, more unjust, that a developing
African country, which only 20 years ago was in a state of war & which even
now is threatened by its neighboring US surrogate/client states that this
country should be sanctioned by the EU? I said I am not an expert on
Eritrea. But I do recognize play ground bullies when I see them.
Afshin Rattansi produces a programme shown on Press TV "Double Standards" &
this is a glaring example, but then this is the EU, this is the reality of
the EU.
Forget all its high falutin rhetoric about helping Africa.
In fact the present day EU apparatchiks & their American counterparts have
the same imperialist mentalities as the delegates to the Congress of Berlin
who in 1885 carved up a Continent over the heads of its inhabitants, & also
then in the name of "human rights". Which is what I know something about. I
was in Zimbabwe when the Fifth Brigade conducted its atrocious
counter insurgency campaign in Matabeland.
The UK Foreign Secretary merely said "Mugabe has a problem, & he has to
deal with it as he sees fit." This was the mid 80's. It was on Cyprus when
an Indian friend of mine remarked how US was merely using the human rights
argument as a stratagem to confront the Soviet Union.
So it is today. The Soviet Union disappeared, in line with the equation,
PHRC (phony human rights concern) = S (sanctions) = SD (state destruction.)
The countries threatening sanctions against Eritrea all have appalling
human rights records themselves. The US keeps open the Guantanamo Bay
concentration camp, its drones engage in extra judicial killings over a
wide area.
Meanwhile any independent media which disagrees is closed down or _at_ least
loses its satellite connection, such as Press TV, thrown off the Sky
Platform on the orders of OFCOM, OFCOM & HMG in turn merely bowing to the
latest diktat from Washington.
Press TV provides the finest news service in the world in my opinion,
significantly better than the BBC, now not a news service but merely a
conduit for fraud, using license payers money.
Ladies & Gents, "There is only one independent government in the Horn of
Africa that has the vision and leadership quality to help bring such an
idea." It is Eritrea!
Thank you for the Excellent organisation by the Festival Task Force!See more
http://www.raimoq.com/eritreathere-is-only-one-independent-government-in-the-horn-of-africa-mr-william-spring/
Received on Sun Jul 21 2013 - 21:12:29 EDT