Capitalist Intelligence Services: MI6 & CIA ... Rivers of Blood

ministry of tokyo MI6 & CIA ASSASSINATION OF AIREY NEAVE Come Out Ye Black and Tans Via WikiLeaks  Airey Neave & Margaret Thatcher Airey Neave - first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle, WWII Airey Neave, wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard Enoch Powell of "Rivers of Blood" fame Following extracts are from assorted Wikipedia entries: Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) 1974 – present (on ceasefire since 1998, formally ended armed campaign in 2009 paramilitary wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) Ideology Irish republicanism Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism seeks to remove Northern Ireland from UK rule & to establish a socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland founded by former members of the 'Official' IRA who opposed that group's ceasefire BRITISH designate Irish National Liberation Army (INLA): PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION under the Terrorism Act 2000 Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), designated illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland -- first action to bring the INLA to international notice assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave British Conservative Party's spokesman on Northern Ireland one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters 1982 bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork / which the INLA believed was providing assistance to NATO / in violation of Irish neutrality 6 December 1982 – the Ballykelly disco bombing Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry catered to British military personnel 11 soldiers & 6 civilians killed INLA members participated in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes for the recognition of the political status of paramilitary prisoners x3 INLA members died during the latter hunger strike – Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine plus: x7 Provisional IRA members 1983, x3 members of the congregation in Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley / shot dead during Sunday service IRA: weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist / attack on the church was not sanctioned 1987 the INLA came under attack from the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO), / group made up of expelled or disaffected members of the INLA / feud resulted in the death of x16 INLA and IPLO members / mainly took place in cities, most notably in Belfast, Derry, and Dublin feud ended in 1992 with the INLA surviving just barely, / Provisional IRA stepping in and wiping out the main Belfast leadership of the IPLO /  as IPLO were openly involved in drug dealing / letting the rest of IPLO dissolve outside of Belfast 1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England, post Airey Neave death / shot dead a recruiting army sergeant in Derby 1997, NLA gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast Drumcree conflict triggered x6 days of fierce riots / widespread violence in several nationalist areas of Northern Ireland mid-1980s, the INLA was greatly weakened by 1. splits among ranks 2. criminality within its own ranks 3. conviction of many of its members under the British supergrass scheme Harry Kirkpatrick, an INLA volunteer / arrest - x5 murders charges, 1983 / agrees to give evidence against other INLA members Supergrass (informer) British slang originated London informers referred to as 'grasses' since late 1930s 'super' coined by journalists in early 197022 / describing underworld informers testifying against former associates in series of high-profile mass trials of 1970s grass / for SNAKE IN THE GRASS known in English to mean 'traitor' since late 17th Century phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, latet anguis in herba) latet anguis in herba = snake in the grass latet = hidden anguis = snake herba = grass, plant Northern Ireland the term "tout" is a popular alternative to "grass" Northern Ireland police used term 'Assisting Offender' in lieu of 'tout' / 'grass' legislation enables use of evidence from such offenders Northern Ireland 'supergrass' = arrested paramilitaries / divulged identities of compatriots to ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY / probably in exchange from IMMUNITY from prosecution + monetary inducements (which were not denied) 1981, use of term in Northern Ireland began with arrest of Christopher Black in exchange for protection from prosecution: Black gave statements which led to 38 arrests Black testimonies alone: 1983, 22 members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to a total of more than 4,000 cumulative years in prison > x18 of those convictions overturned on appeal 1986 by end 1982, x25 more 'supergrasses' had surfaced contributing to the arrests of over 600 members paramilitary orgs last supergrass trial finished on 18 December 1985 x25 members of the INLA were jailed on the evidence of Harry Kirkpatrick x24 convictions later overturned 1986 many convictions based on supergrass testimony were later overturned, and the supergrass system was discontinued in 1985 UNTIL 2011 Neave pro-Ulsterisation ULSTERISATION three-part strategy 1. "primacy of the police" 2. "normalisation" 3. "criminalisation" of the British government during the conflict known as the Troubles ie. disengage the non-Ulster regiments of the British Army from duties Northern Ireland / replace them with LOCALLY recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary & other objective = confine the effects of conflict to Northern Ireland strategy outlined in: unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled The Way Ahead produced by a committee of senior British Army, RUC and MI5 officers produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation 'Criminalisation' / avoid acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict *motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war ... to that of a campaign against "criminal gangs" Ulsterisation = move to locally based policing policy comes from a similar US strategy towards the end of the Vietnam War called "Vietnamisation" COMMENT:  "LOCALISATION" - EFFECTIVE & PURSUED AS POLICY BY CAPITALIST COLONIALISTS IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS Ulsterisation led to important changes in the casualty patterns / military/police casualties from Northern Ireland EXCEEDING British casualties for the rest of conflict / reversing the previous pattern *political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army = greater than the deaths of local security forces = DROP in British Army casualties helped prevent any build-up in Britain of sentiment for withdrawal from Northern Ireland Airey Neave qualified lawyer spoke fluent German British army officer politician assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb at House of Commons Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility WWII Neave -  first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle subsequently promoted to war substantive captain / permanent rank of captain 1945 /  later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9 MI9 MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945 tasked with facilitating escapes & return of British prisoners of war communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment understaffed due to power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 & other / WWII prison-camp escapees were debriefed and questioned about their journey home / MI9 - WWII presence in Middle East, military deception role / secret mission 'A' Force deception department set up, representing MI9 in ME during war (later separate) manufactured various escape aid sent to POW camps * officer prisoners inside Colditz Castle requested and received a complete floor plan of the castle used the services of former magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids forged German identity cards, ration coupons and travel warrants were also smuggled into POW camps MI9 sent the tools in parcels in the name of various, usually non-existent, charity orgs / did not use Red Cross parcels lest they violate the Geneva Convention and to avoid the guards restricting access MI9 relied upon their parcels either not being searched by the Germans OR message warning to prisoners to remove contraband / German guards learned to expect and find the escape aids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9 Escape equipment - more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hutton Airey Neave role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948 promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948) 1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959 Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid 1975, Thatcher elected leader Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office / then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland / & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland + concentrating on local government reform instead this * integrationist policy *  abandoned hastily by successor information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected / second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark / serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS INLA issued a statement: In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class. Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election) saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK KEVIN CAHILL Kevin Cahill Kevin James Cahill author and investigative journalist 1965 and served as a platoon commander in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland 1968, leaves army University Ulster, BA Eng Lit. worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK + Singer & Friedlander merchant bank / finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited 1979 he became a full-time journalist part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons + various other / advised many politicians investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill claimed Neave assassination was an inside job Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA / Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption Cahill wrote: prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services possibly merger of MI5 & MI6 due to belief in corruption in security services Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave & Sir Richard Sykes murder + attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980 Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services + Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill "everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job" FORCED FEDERALISATION Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987) most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant (T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey) INDICATING UK had, because of the 'special relationship' with USA: 1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID" 2.  "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..." Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was" COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state Interesting Capitalist History Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.  London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide.  — Geoffrey Jones http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merchants-to-multinationals-british-trading-companies-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006) Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface / more than any other individual or nation / 6,600 million acres in 32 countries / Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it all territories owned by the Crown, including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II / all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure / freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt 'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes ENOCH POWELL Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984 that Americans had killed: 1. Airey Neave 2. Lord Mountbatten 3. Robert Bradford MP said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends" Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible Enoch Powell claimed; Neave assassination intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard ------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave RIVERS OF BLOOD Enoch Powell Come Out Ye Black and Tans MY OLD MAN'S A PROVO Tiocfaidh ár lá

CIA's Trillion Dollar Afghanistan Heroin Trade

ministry of tokyo CIA TRILLION DOLLAR HEROIN TRADE - AFGHANISTAN http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-empires-interest-in-afghanistan-its-the-heroin-stupid/5548727 US Empire’s Interest in Afghanistan – It’s the Heroin, Stupid! By Pepe Escobar Global Research, October 01, 2016 Strategic Culture Foundation 29 September 2016 Here we go again. In yet another Pentagon precision strike, a residential building in Achin district of Nangarhar province was hit as a crowd welcomed home a tribal leader returning from the Hajj. At least 13 civilians were turned into «collateral damage». The Pentagon of course does not «discuss the details of counter-terror operations», but it’s «currently reviewing all materials related to this strike». Nothing obviously will come out of it – adding the civilian dead to the non-stop mounting toll of Operation Enduring Freedom (Forever). Someone that actually is bound to endure his freedom in full splendor is former warlord, head of Hezb-i-Islami and «Butcher of Kabul» Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The Pentagon does not detain the monopoly of shelling civilians in Afghanistan. Hekmatyar also did it with relish in the early 1990s – besides running an underground torture prison in neighboring Pakistan. In Kabul during Taliban rule in the late 1990s, I talked to many residents during the civil war who were allied with Tajik commander and «Lion of the Panjshir» Ahmad Shah Massoud – assassinated two days before 9/11 – as they recalled Hekmatyar’s forces relentlessly shelling civilian neighborhoods. Hekmatyar has been in hiding for almost two decades now – since 1997. He has not yet returned to Kabul. In 2002, in Kunar province in Afghanistan, I was trying to track him – as well as Osama bin Laden – with my Peshawar fixer, and we kept running into US Marines asking us for information. After Osama disappeared, Hekmatyar quickly became the number one «dead or alive» Bush II target in Afghanistan, branded as a «global terrorist» by Washington and blacklisted by the UN in 2003. Now he’s up to amass political power, after being pardoned by the government of president Ashraf Ghani. His outfit, Hezb-i-Islami, is a spent military force for years now. Politically it’s another story. With the deal, Hezb militants will now be able to run for office. It was a hard nut to crack. Hekmatyar has always refused to sign any deal as long as US- / NATO troops de facto occupy Afghanistan. The final deal establishes Hezb and US / NATO agree to disagree – as long as Hekmatyar refuses to support terrorism. And Ghani’s people have to do the paperwork to remove Hezb-i-Islami from the UN’s list of terrorist organizations. Whether incorporating Hezb into the fragile government in Kabul will intimidate the Taliban remains an open question. CIA rat line in effect Afghanistan for all practical purposes continues to be occupied by foreigners; in this aspect Hekmatyar’s logic happens to mirror the Taliban’s logic – even though the successors of Mullah Omar won’t be admitted to the power table in Kabul. A Western covert intel operative with knowledge of how Afghanistan was handled at the highest levels in Washington lays down the case:     Osama bin Laden was a failed CIA asset that was used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan to restart the heroin trade, which is a trillion-dollar business. Mullah Omar was our ally against the Soviets, and a most honorable man, who shut down all the heroin plantations in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over as they considered the over 300,000 dead who died from heroin overdoses per year immoral. We turned on him and betrayed him. Osama was a guest of Mullah Omar, and he merely asked for evidence of Osama’s involvement in 9/11. Since there was none, as he was not involved, none could be furnished. Bush II ridiculed on television even the thought that he would be required to give evidence to a bow and arrow Mullah Omar. It gets much juicier when the operative details what few have had the courage to spell out; the CIA’s real agenda in Afghanistan:     The CIA used the heroin proceeds for external operations and so their revenue had been cut off when the Taliban were in power. This way they could always circumvent the US Congress. Heroin; that is why we are still there. Terrorism is engineered through Operation Gladios as this is being used to justify these interventions. Most Western intel agencies are connected to this trade. 93% of the world’s heroin comes from Afghanistan. After the US invasion heroin growing was immediately restarted. The military convoys from the Pakistan ports to Afghanistan carried back as backhaul the heroin for world distribution. The Taliban and Osama had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11. Hekmatyar by the way was never connected to the heroin trade. Kabul as it stands remains in control of the large population centers and roughly 70% of the country. The rest is Talibanistan. There’s no chance of Kabul winning the war. According to the numbers deployed by Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon and its allies have 14,000 troops in Afghanistan. The US contingent – 9,800 – will drop to 8,400 by the end of 2016. Everyone remembers NATO «handing over control» – as in being ignominiously defeated by the Taliban – in 2014. Those remaining US troops on the ground euphemistically provide «training» and «air support» to the Afghan Army, and are themselves supported by hordes of military contractors. In parallel, deep in the shades, contractors keep moving the CIA heroin to the West. The US-NATO combo has just pledged «to help fund Afghan security forces to the tune of around $1 billion annually over the next three years». Few will be aware that offers splendorous extra incentive to CIA-run heroin traders plying their wares across the EU. The original source of this article is Strategic Culture Foundation Copyright © Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation, 2016 http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-empires-interest-in-afghanistan-its-the-heroin-stupid/5548727 COMMENT No time to look at this. While I was reading this, I thought about the messed up smackie girls in Ukraine and the 2,000,000 addicts Russia reportedly has, and I gave the addicts in Philippines some  thought. Summary execution of dealers and addicts may not be such a bad thing. Can't think now.  Really tired.  Massive spell without sleep. Stop dealing drugs, CIA. It's probably not practical or politic to deal with 2 million druggies (eg in Russia), Philippines-style, because of the sheer numbers. On that basis, I would say that the go hard on druggies approach (of, say, Philippines) is supported by the demographics of drug infestation on the scale of Russia's.  What state (especially one struggling and targeted for take-down by US capitalists) needs the costs of 2 million junkies and their dealers? Something drastic needs to be done before it gets that bad. Philippines has a full-on approach, but I think they're entitled to and it's a rational, enduring solution that acts as a warning to would-be drug-scene players.  The liberal approach serves only capitalism's aims.  We need a swing back to sensible. CIA's drug dealing history and drug trafficking from Afghanistan monopoly would potentially indicate that CIA is channelling drugs into targeted nations as part of a US-Anglo strategy for delivering multi costs to target nations internally and externally, including targets of strategic value (like Ukraine and Philippines). I'd wager that CIA has channelled drugs onto the streets of nations US capitalist target: eg. Ukraine (CIA coup); Russia (CIA wants regime change); Philippines (CIA wants control for military base value).  Note that Iran has a surprisingly sizeable junkie demographic.  What's the bet CIA is pumping drugs into Iran?  US-Anglo capitalism wants a regime change and US-Anglo (and allied Israeli & Gulf Arab) capitalist-serving government in place in a vanquished Iran under capitalist control. The French and CIA had some drug dealing partnership with CIA back in the 1960s and early 1970s, I think.  The French intel filth are probably at it as well:  the French are enslaved to capitalism and I have a feeling that French agents are well-represented in the underbelly of capitalist filth that goes on. As British capitalism was force-selling opium to the Chinese without any qualms, commending 1773, the Brits are probably at it as well. Their targets are screwed either way. Either targets of CIA-MI6 drug dealing tolerate the junkies and have millions of them.  Or, if extreme measures are taken by targeted authorities, giving the US-Anglo capitalists and their crew of 'humanitarian rights' capitalist-funded NGOs, and capitalist funded media, the pretext to screech 'violations', pushing for and arranging political problems that precede planned regime change in target nations.  Usually nations with strong leaders, who are not US capitalist-friendly or on-board with US capitalist aims and leaders who therefore act in the interests of their own nations.

Dr Ang Swee Chai - "Ariel Sharon and the Horrors of the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre"

ministry of tokyo Dr Ang Swee Chai http://www.globalresearch.ca/ariel-sharon-and-the-horrors-of-the-sabra-and-shatilla-massacre/5364681 Ariel Sharon and the Horrors of the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre By Dr Ang Swee Chai Global Research, January 13, 2014 The passing of Ariel Sharon brought back the memories of the horrors of the Sabra Shatilla massacre of September,’82. I arrived in August that year as a volunteer surgeon to help the war victims of Lebanon. The people in Lebanon were wounded, made homeless and lost precious friends and families as the result of ten weeks of ruthless bombardment. That was the Operation Peace for Galilee launched by Sharon who was then the Defence Minister of Israel in June 1982. No one knew how many were killed as the result of that offensive – the London newspapers estimated a thirty thousand with many times more made homeless. When a ceasefire was agreed with the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Sharon broke that ceasefire and drove tanks under air-cover launching a land invasion into Lebanon’s capitol Beirut. Part of the tanks sealed Sabra Shatilla and prevented the helpless civilian victims from escaping, while sending in Israel’s allies into the camps to carry out the most brutal massacre of defenceless women, children and old people under Israel’s watch. The blame was quickly and deliberately shifted to the Lebanese as perpetrators of the massacres, so that today no one can mention that massacre without blaming the Lebanese Phalange, yet forgetting the Israeli organisers of that event. I worked in Gaza Hospital in Sabra Shatilla during the massacre trying to save the lives of a few dozen people, but outside the hospital hundreds were killed. My patients and I knew that Sharon and his officers were in control, and without them the massacre would not be possible. The residents of Sabra Shatilla could at least have escaped. Now more than 30 years later, we know that the killers were brought in by Israeli armoured cars and tanks, obeyed Israeli commands, their paths lit by Israeli military flares, and some of them also wore Israeli uniforms. The mutilated bodies of the victims were thrown into mass graves by Israeli bulldozers. This Sharon continued on to be Israeli Prime Minister, and built the Wall which imprisoned the Palestinians in the West Bank. Sharon’s Wall cut through their lands,  separating people from their homes, children from their schools, farmers from their orchards,  patients from hospitals, husbands from wives, and children from parents. He marched into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem 2000 with fully armed Israeli soldiers and tried to have the West believe that his intention was for peace. He was responsible for other massacres such as in Jenin, Qibya and Khan Yunis just to name a few. The older generation in Khan Yunis in Gaza remembers that he killed all the grown men in the massacre of 1956 and left only the women and children to bury the dead. I thought these facts should be publicised. Those who eulogise Sharon in his role of building Israel should also remember that he built his nation over the dead bodies of the Palestinian people, and the continued dispossession of those who are still alive. Dr Ang Swee Chai, Author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, International Librarie, Beirut The above text was addressed as a letter to Mr Michael Young The Editor Daily Star Beirut http://www.globalresearch.ca/ariel-sharon-and-the-horrors-of-the-sabra-and-shatilla-massacre/5364681 Terry Xu http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/03/16/dr-ang-swee-chai-a-self-imposed-exile-faces-issue-with-ica-over-dual-citizenship/ Dr Ang Swee Chai, a self-imposed exile, faces issue with ICA over dual citizenship By Terry Xu on March 16, 2016 Orthopaedic surgeon Ang Swee Chai, an inductee for the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF), in virtue of her humanitarian work, is unable to turn up for her induction ceremony because the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) refuse to assure her that her Singapore citizenship will not be stripped from her when she enters the country. The SWHF was launched in 2014 by Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) to recognise and celebrate the many contributions of women to Singapore’s development, and to share the stories of these outstanding women so as to inspire others, especially younger Singaporeans. SCWO will mark International Women’s Day 2016 by inducting 14 honourees to the SWHF on 18 March (Friday). The 14 women comprise two Supreme Court judges, six sportswomen, two food personalities, a diplomat, an activist/advocate, a medical aid worker, and a community/social worker. Dr Ang, 67, a self-imposed exile, is one of the 14 who are due to be inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame on Friday for her work in Palestinian refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s Dr Ang is the co-Founder and Patron of British Charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. She is also the widow of Singapore exile, Francis Khoo*. However, Dr Ang is unable to obtain the special travel document to come to Singapore for the induction ceremony on Friday. The documents are needed to assure her that her Singapore citizenship will not be stripped when she enters Singapore. Replying to Straits Times through an email, Dr Ang wrote, "I can come into Singapore with a British passport, but unless there is assurance that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will not strip me of my Singapore citizenship, I must not risk it," An MHA spokesman said the Government does not allow citizens to hold dual citizenship, and will not issue travel documents if they have not renounced their foreign citizenship. She said Dr Ang's 2012 travel document was issued with a "clear understanding that she would resolve her dual citizenship status expeditiously". ICA said that it has reminded Dr Ang to do so four times - the last reminder was last month, on 4 February, a spokesman said. "ICA will process her request for such a document, once she shows proof she has started the process of renouncing her British citizenship." Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan who is currently Ambassador-at-Large and Policy Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) made a comment on his Facebook account saying,  "As she is travelling on a UK passport the presumption must be that she has UK citizenship and yet she is asking ICA for an assurance that she will not lose her Singapore citizenship if she visits Singapore on a UK passport. How can ICA give her such an assurance? She should well know it is impossible for ICA. What makes her so special that an exception to the policy must be made just for her?" Dr Ang explains her reasons for dual citizenship The Online Citizen contacted Dr Ang this morning, for her to answer more about the reasons for the dual citizenship and the reluctance to surrender either of the two citizenship. Why were you issued with a British passport? I applied for British citizenship in order to get a passport to meet my father in Johore Bahru. That was after my mother died in 1990. By then I have already lived as a refugee in the UK for 13 years. I had a refugee travel document which restricts travel to many countries including Europe unless a visa was granted. Under the ASEAN agreement I could not travel to Malaysia either. When my mother was dying I asked the Singapore Government permission to come home to see her, that request was turned down, and I was unable to see her nor attend her funeral. I then knew that I would not be able to see my father since it is difficult for him to come to UK, and he was growing old, so for that reason I applied for a British passport. It also made my travelling to work with refugees in Lebanon less risky, since up to then I was travelling on a refugee document myself. For instance at the Sabra and Shatilla massacre of 1982 as a refugee I was not given British consulate protection, and also application to do work with the Palestinians involve lengthy waits for visas, and long questioning at airports due to my being a refugee even with valid visas. Airport securities in the Middle East were and still is very cynical about allowing refugees entry into their countries and often will detain me to check with their embassies in UK that I was truly who I claim to be. For the sake of my father and for the sake of being able to be a doctor to the Palestinians I applied for a British passport. That was in in 1990 after my mother died. The passport was granted in 1992. Why can't you choose to surrender your British passport? As you can see from my letter to the SCWO I have lived and work in the UK for 39 years and if I renounced my British citizenship I immediately lose my right of abode, right to work and right to travel. I therefore can be deported, lose my job as a surgeon, and cannot visit Palestine and Lebanon. I will be giving up what I have been doing all these years for a Singapore Travel Document allowing me to visit Singapore and look for a job and a place to stay. I am prepared to do that but how am I even to do that when I do not even have a Singapore Travel Document to come home to sort these issues out? Why hold onto the Singapore citizenship, given that you have been out of Singapore so many years? I will not give up my Singapore Citizenship since I did not voluntarily leave Singapore but was arrested by the ISD and released to try to persuade Francis to come back to surrender himself for detention and questioning by the ISD. Under detention and continuous interrogation I agreed to do so. But I know Francis was never a Communist so why should I put pressure on him to be subjected to imprisonment and torture to confess that he was one? Just so that I can continue to live and work in comfort in Singapore? The thought suddenly felt so revolting that by the time I met him at Heathrow airport I decided to join him and filed for political asylum. With that I began my 39 years of exile. I remain a Singapore citizen so long as I do not come home. That was the deal. Not attending the SCWO is disappointing, but not as painful as being unable to see my parents and my mother-in-law when they were dying and not being allowed to attend their funeral. Letter in full from Dr Ang Swee Chai to the SCWO on her predicament with ICA. Dr Ang has written a letter to SCWO to express her apologies for not being able to make it for the Friday's event and the difficulties that she face.     "My Dear Friends of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations, :     I am writing to you with great disappointment that I am unable to join you all on the 18 March 2016 for the wonderful celebration. It is not of my own choice, so I ask your forgiveness for letting you down.     Since you first told me of the wonderful news of your decision to include me in the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame, I have emailed the relevant authorities requesting a Singapore Travel Document, as far back as November 2015. I was so thrilled at the prospect of being able to come to the event and meeting  everyone, family and friends, and to thank you all personally. I now received news that I will not get a Singapore Travel Document. It can only be granted upon my producing proof that I have renounced British Citizenship. The last Singapore Travel Document granted in 2012 when I brought my husband’s ashes home was a one off and not to be repeated.     There is not enough time to do this as I must secure British Residency before surrendering British Citizenship. My right of abode and right to work as a surgeon in the UK is conditional on British Citizenship and once that is gone my entire status in the UK is going to be illegal and I stand to be deported. The sensible thing to do is to apply for British Residency before renouncing British Citizenship and truly at this late hour there is not enough time to do this. Application for British Residency takes five years. In other words I would not be able to enter Singapore for another five years!     I have been going round in circles wondering what I should do since I learnt of this. The realisation of a further five years of not being able to come home seems so much more distressing than the last 39 years living in exile. The last 39 years saw my being refused the opportunity to see my parents and my mother-in-law when they were dying, and of course I could not attend their funerals as well.     By God’s grace, as I woke up to Mothering Sunday this morning and started to pray for all mothers, including foster mothers who protect orphans,  I gathered enough composure and strength to write to you now.  I really should not be feeling sorry for myself but be thankful that your invitation to this great honour has prompted me to write to the Singapore authorities and research the complicated mechanics of how to come home.     I recall when I was having enormous difficulties fighting the White Male British Surgical Hierarchy as a junior woman surgeon in the UK, I have clung on to the wise saying “Never ask for the way to be easy, but only that it is possible and the strength to follow it”.  I am much older now, but what gave me hope and courage decades ago has now come back to strengthen me again.     When 18 March comes, I will be praying for all of you that everything will go as planned and it will be a wonderful and inspiring evening, that your hard work and efforts will be greatly rewarded.     With very best wishes and God bless     Dr Ang Swee Chai" *Francis Khoo was a human rights lawyer. He was one of five persons who attempted to save the Singapore Herald, a liberal newspaper. Together with G Raman, Francis also defended two marine workers who were charged with Tan Wah Piow for rioting in the early 1970s. He fled to England when his friends, including G Raman were arrested and imprisoned without trial under the Internal Security Act in February 1977. http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/03/16/dr-ang-swee-chai-a-self-imposed-exile-faces-issue-with-ica-over-dual-citizenship/ http://archive.is/bUazl COMMENT SABRA & SHATILLA MASSACRE Agents and mercenaries of US-Anglo capitalism stood by, no doubt funding and supporting the Israelis during the Israeli aggression in Lebanon, ahead of moving on to bombing Serbian children with graffiti bombs and letting Serbian people in Serbian Kosovo get ethnically cleansed: US-ANGLO CAPITALIST MASSACRE SERBIA Yes, I just check the US aid to Israel - $233.7 billion, adjusted for inflation as at 2013: Ariel Sharon sounds an unpleasant man. Arranging a massacre of civilians is appalling. From the Israeli perspective, they were pursuing whatever their immediate and long-term ends in the region were and, from what is maybe a 'realpolitik' perspective, this is perhaps how war is truly waged (at least by those backed by the might of the US-Anglo Capitalist Empire) ... without the hindrance of adhering to those pesky human rights international law treaties that aren't ratified or have been unsigned, as the case may be.  Rome Statute 2002 interesting article written by academic:   here. Suspect that arranging a massacre of civilians would be considered war crime, pursuant to modern warfare standards and international laws. As Ariel Sharon was later elected as Prime Minister of Israel, his actions and character, or personal qualities, must be highly regarded in a leader by the Israelis. Looks like the Israelis have a sick sense of humour in naming their operations:  Operation Peace for Galilee, in this case.  I'm not sure if this is intended or not. Dr Ang Swee Chai mentions the following: Sabra Shatilla Massacre Jenin Massacre Qibya Massacre Khan Yunis Massacre 1953 Massacre It's going to take me the rest of the day to look up all those Sharon massacres. Wonder if Hillary Clinton would consider Ariel Sharon's massacres 'deplorable' ... in which case, Ariel Sharon would definitely have himself a basket of deplorable massacres. BUTCHER OF LIBYA HILLARY CLINTON ON BUTCHER OF BEIRUT Slobodan Milosevic was vilified and referred to by the Western press as the "Butcher of Bosnia".  That's Slobodan Milosevic that was murdered by capitalist agents in a cell in Brussels, who was recently exonerated by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Doubt that Ariel Sharon was called the "Butcher of the Middle East" by the same capitalist-controlled press ... although it sounds like he might have deserved the title, judging by Dr Chai's article. Israelis also broke the ceasefire. The impression I have is that the Israeli government is not not to be trusted in war, spying, guerilla warfare, nuclear armament and maybe other things I've yet to discover. PS  ...  I just looked up 'Butcher of the Middle East' and I found:  Butcher of Beirut (Sharon). NOTE I don't do this subject justice, as I don't know enough to really comment intelligently ... and I've wound up hijacking the topic with side material (Serbia versus US Capitalist Empire, years later), which I find an interesting comparison of capitalist-controlled US foreign policy. In Lebanon, potentially 30,000 people were massacred and it wasn't like it was an impersonal bombing or a quick shot to the head, or something like that.  The level of extreme violence and cruelty is incomprehensible:  I don't understand anyone wanting to kill in this way, although I can understand that people do kill.  I always imagine a 'civilised' killing, whatever that is.  Maybe I've watched too many movies, before I stopped watching them. The massacre in Lebanon involved extreme and up-close and personal violence against everyone, including including women and children; and it involved rapes and other atrocities, going by my quick perusal of an article I intend to go back to. LINK to further comment on side topic regarding something that caught my attention looking at this (white man). [Uh-oh ... I burnt the lentils I was boiling, while I was doing my look ups and listening to loud music.  The place stinks.  I'm going to be in so much trouble.  I'll not hear the end of this.  But at least my sneaky cigarette smoking is now covered.  LOL ]