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Guyana’s abstention on UN’s vote against Syria
Dear Editor,
The PNCR and Rupert Roopnaraine (I am not sure if Roopnaraine was speaking for the WPA or not) criticized the Government for its abstention from the vote at the UN on the motion to sanction the Syrian government in the conflict that is going on there.
Granger and Roopnaraine both attacked and condemned the government’s position.
I wish to support the stand taken by the administration, in fact the government should have gone further and voted against that motion.
The US has a tendency to use these resolution and then expand them to take military actions. This was the case in Iraq and with Libya.
In both cases hundreds of thousands of people were brutally killed. The countries are in total disarray and complete mess. A look at most of the places where the US intervened would find that the situation has gotten worse when they stepped in.
The US is also strangely silent of real government oppression that is taking place in Bahrain, where anti-government demonstrators are mowed down by helicopter gunships. This is a mere footnote on BBC & CNN.
In relation to Syria, it is important to note that from the beginning there was outside interference. It is not by chance that the “uprising” began in Syrian’s border town and from the inception was well armed.
It is now being reported (reports that are being suppressed by the main stream press in the US) that many foreign fighters are with the Syrian rebels, including Al Qaeda fighters. Strange, US and Al Qaeda are on the same side.
The rebel group is so well informed that they were able to strike a serious blow to the Syrian government in which four top leaders of the Asad government were assassinated.
The opposition is shooting down Syrian airplanes from the skies.
Guyana should not have abstained; the better position would have been a vote against since the internal fighting seems to have been instigated, financed and armed from outside.
Riaz Mohamed
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