- NEW DELHI (IRNA) -
US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Noam Chomsky launched
a stunning attack on Washington double standards on terrorism.
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- 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.
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- "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.
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- "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," Professor of Linguistics said.
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- 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.
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- Prof Chomsky, who kicked off his fortnight long lecture
tour of the subcontinent, which will also take him to Pakistan, highlighted
the use of brute military and economic might by the US against indigenous
people in various parts of the world, particularly Central America.
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- "In the Reagan years alone, US-sponsored state terrorists
in Central America left hundreds of thousands of tortured and mutilated
corpses, millions on maimed and orphaned, and four countries in ruins,
he said.
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