http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/29/18734451.php
Britain's
‘humanitarian’ missions for African women and
Syrian children
Propaganda alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
29 March 2013
Having kept a low profile on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of
Iraq, the British government launched two
‘humanitarian’ campaigns in an effort to disguise
its genocidal wars in the Middle East and Africa. On the day Britain
deployed troops to Mali, British Foreign Minister William Hague and
United Nations goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie went on an
“anti-rape mission” in the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Rwanda. The following day, British Prime Minister David
Cameron’s wife Samantha Cameron visited Syrian refugee
children in Lebanon as an ambassador for the British aid organisation
Save the Children.
The Times, 28 March 2013
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excerpts from: 'Harrowing
stories': Cameron visits Syria's child refugees
(title of the print edition)
by
James Meikle, The Guardian, 28 March 2013
[British
Prime Minister David Cameron's wife] Samantha Cameron has spoken of the
"harrowing stories" she heard from children who had fled Syria as
refugees.
She warned that childhoods were "being smashed to pieces" by the
conflict after visiting families now said to be living in flimsy
makeshift shelters in Lebanon's Bekaa valley.
Cameron, an ambassador for Save the Children, was helping to draw
attention and funds to the charity's work, as she met mothers and
children who had witnessed relatives dying in the brutal civil war.
"As a mother, it is horrifying to hear the harrowing stories from the
children I met today. No child should ever experience what they have,"
Cameron said on Wednesday. "With every day that passes, more children
and parents are being killed, more innocent childhoods are being
smashed to pieces." [...]
Justin
Forsyth (*), chief executive of Save the Children, who accompanied
Cameron, said: "Without more help, and quickly, we risk losing a
generation of Syria's children."
(*) Justin Forsyth served as
Special Advisor on International Development (2004-2008) and then as
Director of Communications and Strategy (2008-2010) under the Labour
governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In July 2012, he became the
chief executive of Save the Children.
Syria
Crisis Appeal ad by Save the
Children, March 2013
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Flashback
to 2011: War
propaganda by Save the Children during NATO's
invasion of Libya:
Libyan
children suffering rape, aid agency reports
Children as young as eight have been subjected to sexual assaults,
according to accounts given to Save the Children
by
David Batty, The Guardian, 23 April 2011
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US actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and
British Foreign Minister William Hague visit the
Lac Vert rescue camp for women, Democratic Republic of Congo, 26 March
2013
excerpts from: William
Hague and Angelina Jolie to highlight problem of warzone rape on visit
to Africa
by
Emma Clark, The Independent, 25 March 2013
[British]
Foreign secretary William Hague will travel with Hollywood actress
Angelina Jolie to Africa this week to raise awareness of warzone rape.
Mr Hague and Jolie, a United Nations special envoy, will meet survivors
of rape and sexual violence during their visit to the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the [British] Foreign Office said. The
pair intend to call on all governments to help eradicate sexual
violence in conflicts when they meet local political leaders. [...]
Mr Hague said: "Rape is often used as a weapon of war in conflict zones
around the world. It destroys people's lives and communities in the
most horrific manner imaginable. Yet more often than not the
international community looks away, the perpetrators of these brutal
crimes walk free and the cycle of injustice and conflict is repeated.
We have to shatter this culture of impunity."
US actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and
British Foreign Minister
William Hague visit the Gisozi Genocide Memorial, Kigali, Rwanda, 26
March 2013
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articles:
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by Tony Cartalucci, Press TV, 10 March 2010
At
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propaganda alert by Cem Ertür, Global Research, 27 December
2012
America's
Africa: Hollywood celebrities provide “mood music”
and “star appeal” for US “humanitarian
wars”
by Finian Cunningham, Global Research, 23 April 2012
Angelina Jolie conscripted to sell genocidal ‘humanitarian
intervention’ war doctrine
by Martin Iqbal, empirestrikesblack, 24 February 2012
Libya ‘rape’ propaganda plunges to new depths of
desperation
by Martin Iqbal, empirestrikesblack, 17 June 2011
How George Bush, Sr. sold the 1991 bombing of Iraq
by Mitchel Cohen, Scoop, 22 December 2002
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