The English word that I hate the most is ‘treachery’.
This word encompasses the worst of humankind.
It is a treacherous word full of treachery.
Treachery admits to the betrayal of those close to each other.
It means the worst that people who are close to each other can do to each other.
Treachery is back stabbing.
It is betrayal, deceit and deception.
Treachery is disloyalty, double dealing.
Treachery reminds me of what liberation war governments did to their nations.
Treachery is treason.
Heck, it reminds me of us, the people!
Saddam Hussein is alleged to have killed thousands of his people. His vilification is, no doubt, laced with propaganda.
HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein” \l “cite_ref-35” In their 2004 book, The Middle East: A History, William Ochsenwald and Sydney N. Fisher say that Hussein’s army was responsible for 200,000 civilian deaths.
On the other hand, on October 7, 2007 Dexter Filkins of the New York Times wrote that Saddam “murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas”.
While Saddam was cruel and merciless, the discrepancy in those figures displays an unforgivable bias.
Treachery!
More importantly, Saddam was accused of killing his own defenceless people, allegedly using poison gas or, if you will, “weapons of mass destruction”.
America launched two wars against Saddam. In the second war, they managed to literally drive him underground where he was fished out by American soldiers and then shown on TV with an American doctor humiliatingly poking his gums with a flashlight.
The Americans later “handed him over” to a makeshift Iraq government that “tried him” and sentenced him to death.
Mission accomplished!
It wasn’t that simple; to this day no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
It’s called treachery and it is painful.
More recently, the Americans finally caught up with one Osama bin Laden, the man they had been hunting in caves and trees for almost ten years, blaming him for the attack on America in the infamous September 11th attacks.
About 3 000 people lost their lives in this Bin Laden-inspired attack.
The Americans were relentless and, after almost ten years, found him in a million dollar compound, killed him and immediately fed him to the sharks of the Northern Arabian Sea.
It was revenge for the murder of almost 3 000 people in America.
“The mission was to kill, not capture, bin Laden,” said a US Homeland Security spokesperson.
On Friday, October 29, 2004 through a video tape, Bin Laden himself made his first televised appearance in more than a year “in which he admitted for the first time ordering the Sept. 11 attacks…” (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137095.00.html)
In the video, he “claimed direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States”.
For years, he taunted the Americans for the killings and promised more similar attacks, which materialised.
After bin Laden was found and killed, some prominent Muslim in Botswana had the gall to tell the media that he was not even sure if Bin Laden had committed the crimes he was being blamed for.
This from a respected elder of his religion, political party and, indeed, in government; a man who is part of a team that runs this country!
There is something careless about this; he just had to support bin Laden, not for any other reason than that he was a fellow Moslem.
That is treachery, if you deny the deliberate and heinous killing of innocent people to support a murderer just on account of you going to the Mosque together.
The innocent people who were killed in these acts are, of course, of no consequence.
The man just wants to see bin Laden walk into the Mosque with his turban in place.
After America hijacked the Libyan revolution, then stepping aside after pushing its proxies in Britain, France, Italy and Europe, we wonder who is next.
NATO, the European Union, and America do not like leaders, like Gaddafi, who kill their own people.
They don’t like people like Saddam who kill people indiscriminately.
They don’t like people, like Osama Bin Laden, who kill people by ramming airplanes into expensive skyscrapers filled with people working for their American Dream.
So who is next?
The world is awash with people and presidents who kill people.
Who is next?
Here, I might need to assist Obama a little, if he has his Atlas at his elbow.
Being Kenyan, he is well acquainted with Africa and won’t have any trouble flipping to the map of Africa and locating Southern Africa, as opposed to his homeland in East Africa.
He should park his stretch limos and go on a walkabout southwards.
On his way down towards Southern Africa, he should, of necessity, stare hard at one Yoweri Museveni.
Obama should resist the temptation to ask Yoweri about his surname.
Yes, it means “Seven”.
Yoweri’s father allegedly served in the 7th battalion of some army in one of the World Wars and came back home with the name.
But Obama should not be intimidated; seven is just a number.?Obama should stomp his foot down and aggressively wag his finger at Yoweri because Yoweri is a bad man.
Yoweri is a close friend of some old man whose land the American President is reconnoitring.
By the time he gets to Livingstone in Zambia, Obama should not allow himself to be engulfed by the fog of the Victoria Falls. He should not be taken over with curiosity to see how those Falls look from the other side for he will be gazing at Africa’s graveyard.
All he has to do is climb an anthill and gaze southwards.
The safari porters should now be telling him about an 87-year-old murderous old man who still insists that he is just “a young old man”.
Just yesterday, he denied he is old.
The old goat said the five trips he has since made to Singapore, since January this year to see some specialist doctors, were to have an eye examination then have a cataract removed.
Like Saddam Hussein, the number of people killed by this old man varies, depending on how much you like him.
Those who love him say 15, 000 lives were taken by this old man.
Those who are not too fond of him say 45 000.
Either way, the old man killed much more than Bin Laden did, which, according to the American reaction to other murderous dictators, qualifies him for the same treatment as that befell Saddam and bin Laden.
Ouch!
I forgot, we do not have oil so the Americans don’t give a damn about saving the lives of people suffering under this young old man.
We are stranded again.
I thought the Americans wanted to rid the world of all dictators.
I didn’t know they prefer some dictators to others.
I actually thought there was help coming for, you see, my friend, African leaders are doing to Africa what that former IMF director tried to do to that Ghanaian maid in a New York hotel last week.
That is treachery.
