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ZUJ aiding Western schemes

By TAFATAONA MAHOSO

This is the final of a two-part article by TAFATAONA P. MAHOSO highlighting the evils of the Western-sponsored regime change agenda.

BRITISH, Australian and US intelligence forces united in their efforts to divide the people of Indonesia among themselves at the same time they were serving to isolate the whole country from its neighbours.

The popular nationalist President Sukarno of Indonesia was branded a communist dictator who relied for power on the Communist Party of Indonesia.

This was not the case. But the demonisation succeeded in dividing the country, in terms of propaganda and public perception, between a "dangerous" communist minority and the majority who were Moslems, Buddhists and so on.

It also provided a pretext for stooges of the West to use against Sukarno.

In the eyes of white US and European citizens, the combination of anti-communism and racism meant that the majority of white people could not see the media’s fabrication of stories about Indonesia and its president.

In the case of Indonesia, as in the case of Zimbabwe today, the leaders of the US and Britain led the provocations and the aggression against President Sukarno.

Harold McMillan of Britain and John F. Kennedy of the US agreed in 1962 that Sukarno had to be "liquidated".

The most striking feature of the crimes against peace in Indonesia, which resemble those against Zimbabwe, is that the groundwork for provoking a holocaust was done by those mass media which are close to imperial interests together with Western intelligence services such as the CIA.

The labels which the intelligence agencies put on the Indonesian president, on factions within his party, on patriots, on the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and on the Indonesian Communist Party were almost identical to those which the media created and foisted on the same forces. Such agreement between mainstream Western media and intelligence services was not a coincidence.

This identity of fabrication and description means that a whole country, a whole region, was framed up in such a way as to foreclose alternative interpretations of events.

But the CIA went beyond labelling people the way the EU and US have labelled Zimbabwean patriots who must be targeted. The CIA plotted with General Suharto and other military personnel by first giving them more than 5 000 names, pictures and addresses of the cadres to be murdered in a coup d’etat overthrowing Sukarno and replacing him with Suharto.

The CIA also identified loyal and patriotic generals who were likely to oppose the coup. These were to be murdered and their murder was to be blamed on the "communists" who were part of Sukarno’s political coalition.

In addition, state-of-the-art communication gear was to be flown from US bases in the Philippines to Indonesia at the right moment in order for the CIA and Suharto to co-ordinate the massacres of those pre-marked.

The result of the coup d’etat was that for each of the 5 000 people on the CIA list, at least 10 more were killed in the actual fight that ensued. Most historians put the minimum number of people massacred at 500 000, at most one million.

The role assigned to British, European and US media and historians was not just to help in framing and provoking a conflict, but also to downplay the magnitude of the massacres afterwards.

A popular college textbook in the US in the 1980s put the entire holocaust in the following words:

"Under the colourful but erratic President Sukarno, the Republic of Indonesia assumed an aggressive role in Asian politics, but his reckless policies brought both economic disaster and internal discord.

"With encouragement from China, and to some extent from Sukarno, communist influence increased, and the Indonesian Communist Party for a few years was the third largest in the world. An abortive coup in September 1965, attributed to the Communists, led to the imposition of a military regime which stripped Sukarno of power. The Indonesian Communist Party was shattered but at the price of a reign of terror lasting several months and a bloodbath that took the lives of at least half a million people."

The mass media said even worse things than the white professors. Time Magazine called the massacres and the coup "The West’s Best News in Asia". The magazine US News and World Report called it, "Indonesia: Hope where there was none". And the New York Times called it "A gleam of light in Asia", according to author John Pilger.

British, Australian and US politicians took the same view: Pilger quotes Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt who told US media: "With 500 000 to a million communist sympathisers knocked off, I think it’s safe to assume a reorientation has taken place." So massacres of up to a million people simply constituted a "reorientation" of South East Asia.

Former British Prime Minister "ZUJ most valuable friend".

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also helped in rearming Suharto before he was overthrown. Naomi Klein’s research confirms John Pilger’s, as follows:

"The CIA had been quietly compiling a list of the country’s leading leftists (according to the US Cold War definition), a document which (conveniently) fell into General Suharto’s hands, while the Pentagon helped out by supplying extra weapons and field radios so that (the rightwing) Indonesian forces could communicate in the remotest parts of the archipelago.

Suharto then sent out soldiers to hunt down the four to five thousand leftists on his ‘shooting lists’, as the CIA referred to them; the US embassy received regular reports on their progress. As the information (on the massacres) came in, the CIA crossed names off their lists until they were satisfied that the Indonesian left had been annihilated."

By the late 1970s, the CIA had succeeded in overthrowing popular democratic governments in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama and elsewhere. Using the same computer technology that was denounced in apartheid South Africa in the book Automating Apartheid, the CIA merged most of the shooting lists to produce one super list for the entire South American region.

This list was then given to all the repressive military regimes who were clients of the US. The super list made it possible for all the various juntas to arrest, detain, deport or shoot one another’s targeted persons, thereby making it impossible for those on the list in one country to find refuge in another country in the region.

The standard letter which the US government sends to persons on the shooting list sounds innocent and well-intentioned. The one I received is dated April 10, 2006 and it reads in parts, as follows:

United States Department of State

Washington DC 20520

10 April 2006

Mr Tafataona Mahoso

Chairman

Media and Information Commission

HICC Centre Complex

Harare Sheraton Hotel

P O Box BE33

Harare

Dear Sir

On February 22, 2002, the President of the United States signed a Proclamation suspending the entry into the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants those persons responsible for actions that threaten Zimbabwe’s democratic institutions or impede the transition to a multi-party democracy. The entry into the United States of the spouses of such persons was also suspended.

Information available to the US Department of State indicates that you may be covered by this Proclamation. Accordingly, you are hereby notified (or renotified, in case you received a previous notification) that you and your spouse may be ineligible to receive visas to enter the United States except as provided for by the Proclamation’s terms.

Two points may be worth noting. The shooting lists are quite detailed so that the CIA and its collaborators will know where their targets are.

Secondly, the justification for putting people on the shooting list must use language which is vaguely acceptable to gullible US citizens.

The US President cannot openly say he is putting Tafataona Mahoso on a shooting list because Mahoso opposes the US-UK sponsored illegal regime change project whose purpose is to install a puppet neoliberal regime which will reverse the African land reclamation revolution, privatise all State enterprises and abolish the Mines and Minerals Act as well as the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act.

However, an astute US citizen would still wonder why the Bush administration assumes the right to protect and promote "Zimbabwe’s democratic institutions" and "the transition to multi-party democracy".

If Zimbabwe already has democratic institutions, who actually created them and why is it still necessary for the same democratic institutions to go through a foreign-sponsored "transition to multi-party democracy"? Based on the contents of appeals which the then leaders of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists sent to prospective donors in 2006, it is safe to conclude that Caesar Zvayi’s name was suggested for the EU’s shooting list by overzealous ZUJ leaders in exchange for donor funds.

The appeals which ZUJ sent to donors in 2006 were peculiar in that the papers presented the then ZUJ leaders as partisan political activists affiliated to the MDC-allied National Constitution Assembly and the donor-funded African Commission on Human and People’s Rights whose reports on Zimbabwe have been thrown out routinely by AU Heads of State for being hopelessly ill-informed and partisan.


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