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| Chomsky decries "silent genocide" |
| 2001-11-05 |
According to the Statesman, an English daily published from New Delhi, Chomsky in his clearest voice of dissent in contemporary America described the US-led attacks on Afghanistan as a "silent genocide", affecting millions of innocent civilians. "They are not the Taliban," he told an overflowing audience at the Fifth D.T.Lakdawala Memorial Lecture on 'Peering into the Abyss of the Future' which included Indian Ministers, Diplomats, members of the academia in a 70-minute lecture at the FICCI auditorium here recently. "Terrorism is terrorism that is directed against the US and its friends and allies," he said before reeling out a string of statistics on the misery of the Afghanistan people and US neo-imperialist policies over the decades. "For the first time in modern history, Europe and its offshoots are the targets, not the perpetrators of horrifying crimes. Europeans have spent centuries slaughtering each other, but have not been attacked by their traditional victims," the Professor of Linguistics (Not logic, and not history) said. "Seven million Afghans are facing starvation, food will be available next year only to 20 per cent of the population as the strikes have disrupted planting of crops. "But only 1 per cent of the US people knew about the real travails of the Afghan people," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |