Campaigners
call for end to 'unjust poor country debts' after government figures show arms
were used against civilians
guardian.co.uk,
Richard Norton-Taylor, Tuesday 6 November 2012
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| Former Indonesian president General Suharto. Britain lent the country more than £630m at a time when Suharto was stifling demonstrations. Photograph: AP |
Britain is
owed hundreds of millions of pounds of unpaid debt on loans to autocratic
governments in Argentina, Indonesia, Iraq and Zimbabwe for UK weapons and
equipment that were used against civilians, an analysis of figures released by
the government show.
Britain
lent Indonesia more than £630m to pay for British arms provided to General
Suharto at a time when he was repressing protests. Some of the weapons,
including armoured cars and jet aircraft were used in the 1990s against
civilians in what is now East Timor, the former foreign secretary, Robin Cook,
admitted at the time.
Up to £50m
was lent to the Argentine junta to buy British arms before the invasion of the
Falklands in 1982. They included two Type 42 destroyers, two Lynx helicopters,
and 22 Sea Dart missiles, according to documents in the National Archives
discovered by the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC), which is calling for an end to
what it calls "unjust poor country debts".
One of the
Lynx was the first Argentine aircraft to land on the Falklands after the
invasion.
The
government lent £12m for the export of Land Rovers to President Robert Mugabe
of Zimbabwe. The vehicles were supplied after he promised they would be used
"with due respect for human rights". He said he would not use them
for riot control, but Amnesty International said vehicles were used to crush
demonstrations.
Some £100m
of unpaid loans were originally provided to Egypt under the former president
Hosni Mubarak to buy British weapons; £5.5m of unpaid loans were provided to
Saddam Hussein's Iraq then engaged in a war of attrition against Iran.
A
proportion of the loans to Indonesia have recently been settled, though the
country still owes £400m, most of which comprises debts for the purchase of
British weapons, according to official figures.
Tim Jones,
policy officer at JDC told the Guardian on Tuesday: "For years the UK
government has claimed it is not possible to find out where debts come from.
The figures released today show this was a lie. They reveal a history of
horrendous loans to dictators such as General Mubarak, General Suharto and Saddam
Hussein for military equipment. People in these countries should not have to
pay these unjust debts."
The UK
government is demanding Egyptian people pay the debt inherited from General
Mubarak and £14m will be paid this year, according to the JDC.
The figures
are included in a report on sovereign debt data by UK Export Finance, part of
the Department for Business. It is the first time the department has disclosed
such country-by-country figures.
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| Among the loans underwritten by the Export Credits Guarantee Department was one for £35m to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe for the purchase of five of BAE Systems' Hawk fighter jets. Photograph: PA |
“… Most of
the indigenous people of the world no longer exists. Tens of millions of
indigenous people that were connected to the Divine have been wiped from the
face of the Earth; and that includes the Europeans, the indigenous Europeans.
What commands the Earth plane today is the pure masculinity, symbolized by the
obelisk, where there is no love; pure masculinity and no love. As you remember
early on in the channelling we said: Once you feel loved, your world is
perfect. Once love is flowing through your bodies, everything is in order.
There is no love in war, there is no love in the Military. It’s just a low
consciousness government. Government meaning control of the mind. This energy
will also dissolve in the New World, and these men, this people, will have to
find an honourable occupation. There is a place in the world for all those who
have become conscious.
As you are
with your eyes closed, just let the feelings come into your body; and once
again, hand over any Military Energies that are in your bodies to Kryon. If you
have Military energies inside your body you know how to relate to this; either
on Earth, national or an individual basis. Here in Costa Rica there’s a
beginning of a dissolving of the Military Energies, and this goes one person at
a time. Your energy, the structure of your energy, will move from that of a the
pentagon to that of a dodecahedron, as you release this Military Energy. It is
like the story from Gulliver travels, where Gulliver is tied down by the little
people; slowly but surely you cut through these small ropes, and as your
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just observe your bodies and observe your feelings; many of you will fear
releasing these energies for this has been your way of life. Allow these
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life, there is a loving way to relate. Allow the fear of being without the
military energies to also come into your body... let the feelings come and let
the feelings go...
What
Military Energy means if we use an analogy: it would be like putting grinding
paste into the oil of your motor car. Once you release these energies you will
begin to feel lighter as you disconnect from this reality, and, you will find
it easier and easier to release any other negative emotions. Military Energies
are the core of all your problems. Allow the feelings in your body to come and
let them go... imagine beneath you the beautiful planet, Mother Earth, and
inside of Mother Earth there is a pink heart... allow all your family
constellation to move into this pink heart... your mother, your father, your
grandparents and great-grandfathers... brothers and sisters, aunts and
uncles... nephews and nieces... cousins... let them all go into this pink
energy... be cleansed and purified, and allow these Military energies to
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as these energies begin to dissolve the New World will begin to come to you. …”
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