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Commentary: West-led Color Revolution backfires as refugee crisis worsens
English.news.cn 2015-10-11 20:19:27
Xinhua
BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The West-led "Color Revolution" in the
Middle East has not only failed to bring peace and stability to the
region, but has also eventually backfired as Europe is now struggling
to deal with the worst refugee crisis since World War II.
An increasing influx of refugees has poured into the continent by sea
or land from Syria, Afghanistan or other countries.
However, the refugees were largely not welcomed with open arms by the
European nations, which, instead, are building walls, increasing
detention and further restricting access so as to prevent more and
more refugees from entering their countries.
After sowing the seeds of the current refugee crisis, the Western
powers are now turning their backs on the desperate migrants who have
lost their homes, families and dreams.
No wonder many observers regard the ongoing refugee crisis as "a
crisis of Western values," as it reveals the hypocrisy of the United
States and some of its European allies in promoting "democracy" in the
Middle East.
Their continuous intervention in the region, especially since the Arab
uprising, or the so-called Color Revolution, has contributed to the
exodus of refugees.
The Arab uprising, which started in Tunisia in late 2010, spread
throughout the Arab world and toppled rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya
and Yemen in what seems to be a domino effect.
The West led by the United States has directly or indirectly
intervened to topple some of the rulers in those countries.
Waving the flags of democracy and freedom, and advocating non-violent
protests and demonstrations, they pushed forward the Color Revolution
by immensely pressuring ruling regimes and ultimately overthrowing
them, creating power vacuum afterward and leading to further political
unrest and social disorder.
As Dr. Zoltan Galik, a European integration and security policy
expert,has pointed out, their failure to stabilize and truly
democratize the Middle East after bringing down governments in Iraq,
Libya and Afghanistan is a major cause of today's refugees crisis.
The Hungarian expert said Western powers' military interventions in
the Middle East and north Africa have destabilized Afghanistan and
Iraq and, indirectly, caused the civil war in Syria.
Meanwhile, the chaos in north and sub-Saharan Africa was the
consequence of the social unrest in the Middle East and North Africa,
leading to instability in Libya, Eritrea, Mali and other countries.
The ongoing crisis will be discussed by the EU leaders at an upcoming
summit, in which they are expected to heatedly debate over quotas of
refugees which EU member states can accept. However, some of them
lacked a sober understanding of the root cause of the crisis.
The ripples of the current refugee crisis, a side-product of
interventionism, is expected to spread to the rest of the world if
Western powers continue imposing their own values on other countries
and blatantly interfering in others' internal affairs.
Editor: Song Miou
Received on Tue Oct 13 2015 - 22:41:17 EDT