IMPERIALISM'S BARBARIC HYPOCRISY
by X Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2008 at 3:42 PM

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Imperialism’s Barbaric Hypocrisy


Imperialism’s Barbaric Hypocrisy


There are a lot of complaints raised about the behaviour of Iraqi National Liberation fighters today by the murderers of two million Iraqi citizens in less than two decades and their media organs. In particular, every time a video of dubious origin appears showing one or other imperialist functionary beheaded or executed in Iraq, there is an outcry over the barbarity of these recalcitrant Arabs/Islamic fundamentalists. (1)
In 1883-4 the british government sent an army to crush the Mahdi movement, which was conducting a successful war against british rule in Sudan at that time. The british General Gordon’s forces were completely vanquished by the determined resistance of the Mahdi army. So, four years later, the british sent the imperialist butcher General Kitchener to Sudan. In September 1898, Kitchener’s forces routed the Mahdi army by massacring tens of thousands by long-range machine gun and rifle fire: no prisoners were taken and the wounded were left to die in the desert, recalling the horrific war crimes committed by amerikan troops on the Basra Road in the first Gulf War, when thousands of surrendered and wounded Iraqi soldiers were mercilessly gunned down. When the british army reached the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, its Major Maxwell had the leading Islamic cleric there cut into two and Kitchener’s army was marched between the severed legs and torso. The Mahdi’s own body was exhumed and Kitchener had it decapitated so that he could have the skull mounted as a cup.
During the colonialist war to defend the superprofits of the rubber and tin corporations and against the Malaysian people waged by the british in the 1950s, the royal marines would regularly cut the heads off insurgents. There is a famous photograph of a british marine smiling whilst holding aloft the heads of two Malaysian freedom fighters which caused a public stir in britain in 1952. As british writer Mark Curtis reports, “The Colonial Office privately noted that ‘there is no doubt that under international law a similar case in wartime would be a war crime.’ (Britain always denied it was technically at “war” in Malaya, hence use of the term ‘emergency’).” (2) Here’s an account from the same war:

“Ms. Elkins cites an eye witness account of a woman who reported that in 1948, Malay and British soldiers came to her village and ’singled out scores of Chinese civilians, accusing them of supplying the communists with food. The women were loaded onto trucks and taken away, though not before they witnessed British troops leading off two dozen men and shooting them in the back.’ When the woman returned to the village two days later, Ms. Elkins writes, ’she found mutilated bodies with heads hacked off and genitals smashed. The surrounding village had been reduced to ashes.’” (3)

So, when imperialist capitalists complain of the particular methods used by Iraqi Patriots fighting for the self-determination of their country, an end to the plunder of all its resources and the chance to revitalize Iraqi society, industry, politics and culture, remind them of the sadistic violence displayed by the armies of imperialist capitalism, yesterday and today. Remind them also of the not-so-pacifist plans of british imperialist hero Sir Win$ton Churchill, who advocated the use of guerilla warfare against the nazified british police if britain came under occupation during World War II. (4)
Should a german invasion of britain occur, Churchill prophecied, “We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the landing grounds, we will fight them in the hills. We shall never surrender…”

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