adminThe outrageous decision by the administrators of Alfred Nobel’s estate to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union for whatever obscene peace initiative that the EU is construed to have made in the world is in the eyes of the right-thinking and peace-loving people is nothing but a monumental scandal.
Indeed, the award will have gone down in the annals of history in 2012 as a travesty of peace-making in the sense that it celebrates those responsible for destabilising peace where that all important value is threatened with virtual extinction.
The truth of the matter, as every honest human being will concur, is that EU cubs trotting behind the United States tiger have inflicted festering wounds on the sovereignty of many peaceful countries in Africa and in the whole Middle Eastern region in order to dominate these countries by creating an economic hegemony for the plunder of rich natural resources in those countries.
You only need to look at what happened to Libya and before that to the destabilisation of Tunisia, Egypt and virtually in the entire bloc of Arab countries during the so-called “Arab Spring” and to what occurred to Iraq for trying to annex Kuwait, America’s oil swimming pool, and at what is happening in Afghanistan to conclude that international political terrorism is on the rampage and as such, should be condemned, not condoned by being feted with any prestigious honour.
The wounds inflicted by the EU and the Americans in Africa under the aegis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and in the Middle East continue to stink to high heaven. You even hold your nose when going through foreign reports in newspapers or when listening to the same stories or radio and television.
That, therefore, is the tragic extent to which international political giantism is threatening the peace of Lilliputians such as Zimbabwe and other weaker states on the globe.
In the circumstances can the progressive international community expect to wake up tomorrow to a white flag fluttering on the mast where the black flag hoisted by Big Brother and company upon their invasion has bowed down and out?
Hardly. If anything, smaller but richly resourced countries, such as Zimbabwe, and others like it, remain under threats by greedy, powerful Western nations.
This state of affairs must necessarily put pressure on the United Nations as the world body to read the Riot Act against any nation, however politically muscled – it might be, in order to protect the weaker nations and engender world peace not rhetorically but in practice.
The order of things today, whereby some self-anointed world bullies go even so far as to economically embargo countries whose political and economic structure they want to usurp, and get away with murder is never at all conducive to world peace and stability.
Mutual respect among countries, however big or small, should be considered as standard mark of human civilisation and surely the UN must enforce inter-state respect to reduce tensions, promote harmony and achieve the world peace that august body touts itself as the rightful enforcement agent.
But as of now and in respect of the disgraced Nobel Peace Prize foisted on the EU, muted protests that have so far been heard should be graduated into defining shrills as a way of registering the grave disappointment of peace-loving nations.
The silence that purveys otherwise vociferous critics of human rights violations is not only disturbing to peace-lovers; it is also a silent condonation of international terrorism which runs against the grain of civilised standards and of the love and respect for one another that Jesus instructs humankind to observe as acknowledgement and appreciation of Christ having endured pain as he died on the Cross in order for humanity to be saved from its iniquities, some of them too outrageous and enjoy universal peace.
Perhaps in order to register their strongest protest at bestowing that grand prize for peace on the EU, laureates such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President Nelson Mandela, both of South Africa, and several others like them abroad might wish to consider handing back their peace prizes, considering them as tainted by the monstrous peace award on the EU.
To be sure, rewarding an organisation of countries that have wantonly shed blood, also causing tears to flow among victims, cannot have failed to redefine peace-making initiative with peace disruption and, that has left the progressive world aghast in the wake of rampaging invaders of weaker nations.
While any effective bridles on pugnacious nations by the UN remain a matter of wishful thinking by vulnerable, weaker states, the hope of political Lilliputians remains one of taking cover under God’s protection praying for agape love and enduring peace to become the outworkings of a new spirit, God-inspired spirit in international relations.
Meanwhile, the panel of judges indicted by many over this year’s peace award might wish to atone for their blunderous act and even recuse themselves from involvement in any potential, future debacle similar to the outrage which has caused the ire of peace lovers in Africa and elsewhere by abating, not abetting, motives for the invasion of other countries and the removal of embattled governments from power.
Online Reporter