US and UK Governments call terrorist who they don’t often depends on their political sympathies. Take the African National Congress for example.
Why do they support the for-us terrorist?
If we are ever to combat the RPF menace, we first need to know how it works: Extremism together with terrorism combined to Nazism: A discriminative and controlled strategy, often producing mass murders, operating distinction between Hutus and Tutsis. Hutus are those who presumably are called terrorists because they refuse to be under the minority criminals gathered under the RPF umbrella, a well-known terrorist organization now running the country. Any opponent to the dictatorship will be treated as a terrorist.
Example:
The ANC was set up to fight for the right of the South African black majority. Life for black South Africans, in the days of apartheid, was grim and for many years they suffered injustice and discrimination at the hands of the white minority. When peaceful protest failed the ANC set-up a military wing in 1961 led by Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for refusing to renounce violence. It’s stated aim was to create maximum havoc and confusion, but they also targeted civilians, frequently killing and maiming innocent people. Now, however, the ANC is South Africa’s ruling party and Nelson Mandela, a man once regarded as a terrorist, is the country’s most respected elder statesman.
The IRA is the oldest modern terrorist organization. It styled itself as the people’s army and it’s aim was to unite the country even if the only way of doing that was through violence. “Freedom” Martin McGuiness once said “can only be gained at the point of an IRA rifle but I apologize to no-one for saying we support and admire the freedom fighters of the IRA”. The truth is, the IRA would never have been so effective nor had as much popular support if the Irish Catholics hadn’t had genuine grievances. They were discriminated against in housing, in employment and under represented in the police and local government. When peaceful protest led to further repression there was a resurgence of support for the IRA and it’s political wing Sinn Fein. The result was more than 30 years of blood-shed. When the bombs hit where it hurt, economically, the government had to negotiate. A massive bomb attack on London’s financial centre paved the way for the peace process.
What about the Hutus in their country in which their considered like outsiders in their own country.
These are lessons which we in the West have failed to learn and we run the risk of alienating reasonable people when we adopt the methods of the terrorist.
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet it cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
