AFRICAN UNION: Instrument of Imperialist Rule

by Thomas C. Mountain
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30783


The African Union has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana, you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” in Somalia, a.k.a., the War on the Somali people.

In 2006, the Somalis themselves under the umbrella of the Union of Islamic Courts brought about a miracle in many observers’ eyes and established a functioning government in the former capital of Mogadishu, bringing peace and security to the region for the first time in 15 years.

The diktats of Pax Americana’s International War on Terror require that any truly popular government, especially with the word Islamic in its name, must not be, and the USA soon dispatched its Ethiopian gendarmes to put fire and sword to peace in Somalia.

This was all done with the official blessing and support of the AU and its big brothers in the UN. Unfortunately for them, the brutal nature of the Ethiopian invasion and occupation began a massive upswell of Somali nationalism and the gendarmes from Addis Ababa were forced to flee the land of their historic enemies, for no Ethiopian leader in their right mind had ever picked a fight with the Somalis.

Up stepped the AU in the form of what is today over 20,000 heavily armed soldiers, mainly some 15,000 from Uganda. These mercenaries invaded Somalia in 2008 and quickly turned Mogadishu into a high explosive inferno, destroying much of the city, 30 square miles or so and creating half a million refugees on top of the half a million Ethiopia had already caused.

The AU troops prefer heavy artillery, tanks, heavy armored vehicles and helicopter gunships when dealing with the Somali resistance. The AU has had no qualms about shelling Somali neighborhoods and markets and the monthly lists of dead and wounded residents of Mogadishu swelled into the thousands before the Al Shabab resistance finally withdrew from the city.

And all the while no one seems to ask why? What gives the Ugandan army the right to be fighting a war against Somalis? How does the AU get away with massacring tens of thousands of the Somali people? Or creating a million refugees who are left to slow starvation in the long overflowing refugee camps?

To understand how this has come to be, how a lofty sounding Organization for African Unity became the African Union and started killing tens of thousands of Africans, one must go back to the miscarriage that brought this organization into existence.

In the early 1960’s, and the birth of what quickly became Neocolonialism in Africa, the Organization for African Unity (OAU) was born. Despite all the idealist rhetoric of building a truly Pan-African union, the very birth of the organization took place amidst a contradiction so overwhelming that all good intent was stillborn.

Instead of supporting African Liberation, the OAU located its headquarters in Ethiopia which was already involved in a counterinsurgency against the Eritrean Liberation Front, the independence movement that became the forefather of today’s Government of Eritrea.

After World War II, Ethiopia had colonized Eritrea, with the blessing of the USA, instead of Eritrea getting its independence like the rest of Africa.

A supposedly anti-colonial organization, the OAU, with its headquarters in Ethiopia, a country colonizing another African country?

This was a complete abandonment of any principle and doomed all further prospects for the OAU to help the African people.

As such, matters have been pretty much all downhill ever since. The OAU morphed into the AU as neocolonialism completed its complete sweep of the newly “independent” African nations. Except one, that is: Eritrea, and it wasn’t liberated until 1991.

For the first three decades of its existence the OAU/AU stood by and let the Eritrean people fight their own battles, come USA or Soviet Union interference. And for the first three decades of its existence, the OAU/AU gave open support for the Ethiopian colonial regime occupying Eritrea.

Again, things have only gotten worse since 1991 and Eritrean independence.

Now one must not forget that only one country in Africa is led by a government that came to power by the military defeat and expulsion of their colonizers. Many African independence movements picked up the gun and fought their colonizers at some point, some for many years. But only one actually defeated their colonizers on the field of battle and took power not by negotiation and elections but via the barrel of a gun.

And that country is Eritrea, which today stands as the only African voice in opposition to the crimes of the AU in Africa.

Today, the AU is in the midst of its latest “surge” in Somalia and just as the USA did in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is increasing its occupation army in size and just as in Iraq and Afghanistan, insisting it is “winning the war on terror” in Somalia.

And just as Pax Americana has had to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, the AU and its African mercenaries will inevitably one day have to admit defeat and leave Somalia for history has shown no one can defeat an entire people. Though not before causing untold suffering to the Somali people and exposing the AU as the tool of western rule in Africa.

thoth: AFRICAN UNION: Instrument of Imperialist Rule

by Thomas C. Mountain
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30783


The African Union has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana, you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” in Somalia, a.k.a., the War on the Somali people.

In 2006, the Somalis themselves under the umbrella of the Union of Islamic Courts brought about a miracle in many observers’ eyes and established a functioning government in the former capital of Mogadishu, bringing peace and security to the region for the first time in 15 years.

The diktats of Pax Americana’s International War on Terror require that any truly popular government, especially with the word Islamic in its name, must not be, and the USA soon dispatched its Ethiopian gendarmes to put fire and sword to peace in Somalia.

This was all done with the official blessing and support of the AU and its big brothers in the UN. Unfortunately for them, the brutal nature of the Ethiopian invasion and occupation began a massive upswell of Somali nationalism and the gendarmes from Addis Ababa were forced to flee the land of their historic enemies, for no Ethiopian leader in their right mind had ever picked a fight with the Somalis.

Up stepped the AU in the form of what is today over 20,000 heavily armed soldiers, mainly some 15,000 from Uganda. These mercenaries invaded Somalia in 2008 and quickly turned Mogadishu into a high explosive inferno, destroying much of the city, 30 square miles or so and creating half a million refugees on top of the half a million Ethiopia had already caused.

The AU troops prefer heavy artillery, tanks, heavy armored vehicles and helicopter gunships when dealing with the Somali resistance. The AU has had no qualms about shelling Somali neighborhoods and markets and the monthly lists of dead and wounded residents of Mogadishu swelled into the thousands before the Al Shabab resistance finally withdrew from the city.

And all the while no one seems to ask why? What gives the Ugandan army the right to be fighting a war against Somalis? How does the AU get away with massacring tens of thousands of the Somali people? Or creating a million refugees who are left to slow starvation in the long overflowing refugee camps?

To understand how this has come to be, how a lofty sounding Organization for African Unity became the African Union and started killing tens of thousands of Africans, one must go back to the miscarriage that brought this organization into existence.

In the early 1960’s, and the birth of what quickly became Neocolonialism in Africa, the Organization for African Unity (OAU) was born. Despite all the idealist rhetoric of building a truly Pan-African union, the very birth of the organization took place amidst a contradiction so overwhelming that all good intent was stillborn.

Instead of supporting African Liberation, the OAU located its headquarters in Ethiopia which was already involved in a counterinsurgency against the Eritrean Liberation Front, the independence movement that became the forefather of today’s Government of Eritrea.

After World War II, Ethiopia had colonized Eritrea, with the blessing of the USA, instead of Eritrea getting its independence like the rest of Africa.

A supposedly anti-colonial organization, the OAU, with its headquarters in Ethiopia, a country colonizing another African country?

This was a complete abandonment of any principle and doomed all further prospects for the OAU to help the African people.

As such, matters have been pretty much all downhill ever since. The OAU morphed into the AU as neocolonialism completed its complete sweep of the newly “independent” African nations. Except one, that is: Eritrea, and it wasn’t liberated until 1991.

For the first three decades of its existence the OAU/AU stood by and let the Eritrean people fight their own battles, come USA or Soviet Union interference. And for the first three decades of its existence, the OAU/AU gave open support for the Ethiopian colonial regime occupying Eritrea.

Again, things have only gotten worse since 1991 and Eritrean independence.

Now one must not forget that only one country in Africa is led by a government that came to power by the military defeat and expulsion of their colonizers. Many African independence movements picked up the gun and fought their colonizers at some point, some for many years. But only one actually defeated their colonizers on the field of battle and took power not by negotiation and elections but via the barrel of a gun.

And that country is Eritrea, which today stands as the only African voice in opposition to the crimes of the AU in Africa.

Today, the AU is in the midst of its latest “surge” in Somalia and just as the USA did in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is increasing its occupation army in size and just as in Iraq and Afghanistan, insisting it is “winning the war on terror” in Somalia.

And just as Pax Americana has had to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, the AU and its African mercenaries will inevitably one day have to admit defeat and leave Somalia for history has shown no one can defeat an entire people. Though not before causing untold suffering to the Somali people and exposing the AU as the tool of western rule in Africa.

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Tens of thousands of Nigerian troops are in Sudan and all over Africa enforcing western Interests and bringing misery and poverty on their fellow african brothers. Nigeria as the largest military power in africa stoodby and supported the western intervention on Ivory Coast, Liberia,Congo and Libya. Nigeria played mercenary roles in Sudan and Liberia as well.

In somalia their are niggggggger soldiers from african countries

they cant afford to send niggggger soldiers so the whites pay for it

somalis hate these ugly niggggggers and we kill them everyday but they are so useless their own govermnet dont care

warya123: In somalia their are niggggggger soldiers from african countries

they cant afford to send niggggger soldiers so the whites pay for it

somalis hate these ugly niggggggers and we kill them everyday but they are so useless their own govermnet dont care

considering the conditions i sincerely believe it is not wise to hate your fellow BLACK African brothers.

u do know we had nigggger slaves right?


the problem here is not how somalis feel about nigggggers


but why niggggggers are in my country workin for white people

warya123: u do know we had nigggger slaves right?


the problem here is not how somalis feel about somalis nigggggers


but why somali niggggggers are in my country workin for white people

Warya123,

I don't know what is your problem. You hate black Africans from other regions of the continent yet you are always on this forum. Should you not be on a somali forum? You a black person calling another black person a 'nigger'? I'm sorry for you because it is obvious you escaped from a mental institution. I am hoping you get banned because you keep making rascist statements. If you feel superior to us, then you should not stoop so low as to be a member of this forum. You don't contribute anything constructive on this forum other than hate comments. Go and join a white supremacist forum and see if they won't call you a 'nigger' and send you away.

warya123: In somalia their are many fellow somali niggggggger soldiers in my country

they cant afford to send somali niggggger soldiers so the whites pay for it

somalis hate these ugly fellow somali niggggggers and we kill each other everyday but we are so useless because own govermnet dont care

Yes, I agree with you

am not black...am somali...am cushitic....your a negroid nigggggggger....


but this is not about that...


this is about why you niggggggers are still slaves after hundreds of years to whites

Pls could somebody give this Cushitic Somali some bread and a cup of tea? . . . . . .and pls don't forget to add sugar to sweeten the tea. He must be hungry.

Poor child.

toshmann: Pls could somebody give this Cushitic Somali some bread and a cup of tea? . . . . . .and pls don't forget to add sugar to sweeten the tea. He must be hungry.

Poor child.

can some one please give this niggggggggger some self esteem....and give him plastic surgery to get rid of that big lips and wide nose...also please erase his history of slavery and mental enslavement...


pooor niggggggger

My guy calm down. You can call people niggggerrrsss all you want but in the end of the day they have a country and you don't.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/18/somalia-tops-failed-states-index-for-fifth-year/

It blows my mind.

warya123:


can some one please give this niggggggggger some self esteem....and give him plastic surgery to get rid of that big lips and wide nose...also please erase his history of slavery and mental enslavement...


pooor niggggggger

From April 18 to August 3,2011 i was in somalia, August 4 to September 19 i was in Eritrea, Listening to you i can boldly tell you that you have never in your life been to Somalia. Anybody that goes there would cry for your people, they have nothing talk less of the time to hate like you do here, anybody that goes there must be to help them in some way and yet we all foreigners have one conclusion about them, they are extremely barbaric and uneducated, lacks the knowledge to comprehend even very simple things and would betray their brother in a heartbeat for smallest promise of fortune.
Have this in mind that i taught them how to use some equipments for 4 months so i know them up close and they are not like you,with what you spew i think your own case might be worse. So before you start hating your brothers pay a visit to your country first so that you will know the truth and know who is your enemy and friend as well. You should know who stands for your people and fight and die with them and also who is killing your people.
I don't know how old you are but if you are to know the truth Somalia and Yemen should be hating Saudi Arabia and Qatar etc. Egypt would not help you be stable instead they just channel American weapons to clan heads to foster sectarian violence and to make sure that the real somalian patriots are defeated, Turkish intelligence mask as physicians and nurses and collect intel and give feedback to somalian enemies as well as serve as link to the clan heads giving then targets to attack and operations to go. Oil has been found in punt and you will watch as it is drilled and not a cent to change the life of hungry and desperate somalians, they will make sure that you guys fight till eternity and they will always exchange $5 weapon for $3 million dollar worth of oil. It is ignorant and disinformed minds like yours that they tap into to get their job done. Maybe your relation is on the side of the western sponsored clans or not but i will just tell you this. KNOW THE TRUTH!! KNOW THE TRUTH!!

From someone who has spent considerable time in your country.

if you are to know the truth Somalia and Yemen should be hating Saudi Arabia and Qatar etc. Egypt would not help you be stable instead they just channel American weapons to clan heads to foster sectarian violence and to make sure that the real somalian patriots are defeated, Turkish intelligence mask as physicians and nurses and collect intel and give feedback to somalian enemies as well as serve as link to the clan heads giving then targets to attack and operations to go. Oil has been found in punt and you will watch as it is drilled and not a cent to change the life of hungry and desperate somalians, they will make sure that you guys fight till eternity and they will always exchange $5 weapon for $3 million dollar worth of oil. It is ignorant and disinformed minds like yours that they tap into to get their job done.

you don't know how many times i have said this. (not these exact words of course)

some folks are too idi0tic. I have completely given up.

Somalia is a classical exhibition of absolute chaos, political entropy, religious extremism, extreme poverty, self loathing, hunger, disease and socio-economic melancholy.
It gets worse when the few "educated" ones would rather fool around than seek ways of helping thier country.

This ex pirate that has lost his source of income is venting his spleen unashamedly here

Hope he got his tea and bread?

Somalia is a fail...darn shame

somalis never were enslaved


u ugly niggggggggers should get a life

africa9: somalis never were enslaved


u ugly niggggggggers should get a life

you just got back with another name, pity.

africa9: somalis never were enslaved


u ugly niggggggggers should get a life

If the current status of Somalia is not slavery, in this 2012, then you need a psychiatrist

Dude. You guys are so pathetic and chaotic on top of extreme poverty, hunger, bondage, disease etc etc etc.

Uughhhhh

Honestly you deserve pity, I shouldn't be laughing at my fellow human beings bc they are in painful penury.

Cushiti( who even knows of this grouping?) you ain't white, "you ain't black", you ain't Arab, you ain't middle eastern, ou ain't Asia or native American . . . . You are confused. . . . . . and hungry

asian is not an ethnicity neither is black.

africa9: asian is not an ethnicity neither is black.

Why would you choose to continue to display such stupidity ? Are Somalians really cursed ? The people that Oppress your people and my people as well as many other people around the world does not care what race or tribe you call yourself, they just want what belongs to you and they will butcher you if you say no and they have been butchering your people,men,women and children. All you could do is just look for who to blame cus you are too sacred to blame your real enemies or too stupid to even identify them.
Last year when Kenyan troops invaded who did you think fought for you guys ? How many somalians are actually left to fight ? Those black men you condemn saved your asses and gave their lives for your people. I am yet to hear that you have stepped into Somalia for one day and witnessed even an hour of warfare.

i hate u mofos


those negroid soldiers are there cause of american orders


somalis owned negroid bantu slaves

related info .....


The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class


http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-global-1-exposing-the-transnational-ruling-class/


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africa9: i hate u mofos


those negroid soldiers are there cause of american orders


somalis owned negroid bantu slaves

somebody forgot their pacifier today...

negroid... i will hang u

africa9: negroid... i will hang u

Hey u misguided hunter gatherer! What are u on about? Are ur bows and arrows broken and u cant hunt antelopes anymore?

Yamhead.

redsun:

Hey u misguided hunter gatherer! What are u on about? Are ur bows and arrows broken and u cant hunt antelopes anymore?

Yamhead.

that guy is really stupid.

thoth:
that guy is really stupid.

He chews too much kwat.

However,i still think somalians need to be delivered from their own destructive paws.The paws of ignirance and abject miseries.Even if it takes the nazis to do it,i will support it.

u ugly gorillas. somalis are beutiful warriors

i hope other Somalians don't think like you,these ugly gorilla may decide to leave you to JUST die out.