(TALKZIMBABWE) IMF has failed the developing world

IMF has failed the developing world
By: Bret Nyatsanza
Posted: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:03 pm

DEAR EDITOR - THE United States of America and other western countries record human rights violations that are much more egregious that those we see in Africa.

Millions of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and international humanitarian and legal organisations have remained silent. The 'War on Terror' has killed more people than killed in Africa and elsewhere in such a short space of time. The UK and US have an incomparable record in that regard.

More British soldiers have died so far in that so-called War on Terror than the deaths in the Falklands; and that 'war' has now lasted longer than the Second World War.

Does the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ever lecture the USA or UK or the European countries on human rights? Perhaps they do - under the sheets.

The human rights charges against the African countries are leveled by people (of the imperialist kind) who populate those agencies (and see it essentially as another psyche war tool in the white imperialist campaign for world domination.

Does the IMF implore the USA and UK to submit themselves to the International Criminal Court (ICC) with regard to the charges of horrendous atrocities those countries have committed against innocent people?

Western countries dismiss damning reports of human rights violations - because such charges are LIKELY to be tinged with a political agenda by their enemies.

Europeans are eternal tormentors of the African. Should the African therefore dismiss and reject any efforts to account for the charges leveled in the reports emanating from the Europeans and their captive international agencies like the ICC, IMF and the various human rights bodies? Maybe they should.

Does the IMF know how to access the human rights reports on European countries - or do they discount the reports because they are written by Africans who have a political axe to grind?

Studies have suggested that when it comes to monetary/financial matters, the IMF and its sister body named World Bank is clueless and, indeed, undesirable to put it mildly: The economic health of the countries of the world that the IMF has tried and claims to have assisted to prosperity since the 60s have actually done worse.

So, the IMF is primarily staffed by those that are ignorant (or better still, maliciously destructive) in financial/monetary/economic matters they claim to be expert on. Why do they wish to hoodwink the African into assuming that they can be better at other matters in which they claim no expertise - like human rights? [Or are they looking for an excuse for their dastardly crimes of plunder in Africa?]

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Monetary or economic awareness have little or nothing to do with the IMF: That is not their forte; if they have any, outside the racism realm. After all, isn't the current world economic recession also wreaking havoc in their western countries - despite their increased destabilization and plunder of the fabulously resource-rich countries of Africa - and the attendant perennial and fortuitous attrition by mass slaughter of the native?

Hoodwink the African? Isn't that what these people who rationalize crass murderous, plundering, racist imperialism are good at?