Somalis Drive Out Humanitarians

Second recent setback in Africa for French aid groups

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French medical aid group, is pulling all of its international staff out of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=824 after a bomb blast killed three of its workers.

Three MSF staffers, a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2819.

The Christian government of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3248, ending 16 years of MSF work there.

This is the second major setback for French aid groups in Africa in recent months. In October (2007), the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2235. Also, few if any were even from Darfur. Allegations were made that the French “humanitarians” had paid tribal chiefs for the children. The news led to antiwhite rioting in Chad.

The MSF withdrawal mimics http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1010 from the Muslim world by Norwegian and Danish aid groups in the aftermath of the Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005 and 2006. Despite the free food, medical aid and other assistance these groups handed out, they were forced to flee by ungrateful natives.

In the Third World, as well as in places like Russia, nongovernmental organizations (http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2616) like MSF are often regarded as agents of Western imperialism. While many NGOs do selfless work, some have been involved in subversive actions in various places, and were vital to the success of the “color revolutions” in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. The work of one NGO, the British Council, has been heavily curtailed by the Kremlin, which accuses it of being an agent of MI6, the UK intelligence service.

The full agenda of MSF is suspect to many people, and certainly the group does have a selective, politically informed approach to the work it does. For example, MSF was formed to support the separatist Biafran revolt in Nigeria, aid that angered the Nigerians, who saw it as support of the rebeln faction. The best known member of MSF is http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1067, a former member of the French Communist Party (PCF), who is now the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs. While the fact that Kouchner is Jewish may have had something to do with the Islamist attack on the MSF staff, it is unlikely that the desert dwelling insurgents are sophisticated enough to have such intelligence information. As a government minister, Kouchner has parlayed his secular sainthood status into backing calls for European “intervention” to “save” the starving natives in Darfur. Such “intervention,” which is in line with the regional Israeli agenda and is championed by Zionist groups in Europe and America, is seen by the Muslim government of the Sudan to which Darfur belongs, as well as others in the Third World, as old fashioned Western imperialism masquerading as “humanitarianism.” Similar “human rights imperialism” was witnessed in various interventions after the end of the Cold War, especially in the Balkans.

The genuinely humanitarian work of foreign assistance groups reflects the best humanist instincts nutured by  European civilization. However, often such efforts have the opposite effect of that intended; by interfering in the natural balance of the Third World their work often leads to overpopulation and dependency.

2008-02-02