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B-3, AMERICAN
FREE PRESS * January 1 & 8, 2007 Behind the Scenes at the Iran Conference with
Michael Collins Piper
. Photo by Michael Collins Piper
Malaysian attorney and author Matthias Chang
(far right), best known to AFP readers as the author of
Future FastForward and Brainwashed for War, was on
hand for the Tehran conference, shown here at the podium
in the company of several other speakers. An outspoken
critic of Zionism and imperialism, Chang is an advisor and
former political secretary to former Malaysian Prime
Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
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Chang Says All War Crimes Must Be Investigated, Prosecuted
By Michael Collins Piper
. Among the many speakers at the Holocaust conference in Iran was Malaysian diplomat and attorney,
Matthias Chang, best known to readers of AFP as the author of Future Fast Forward and Brainwashed for
War. In his prepared text, entitled “The Zionists’ Insidious Benchmark for War Atrocities,” Chang
expressed the view of many people around the world that it’s time to end the Zionist monopoly on suffering.
What follows are excerpts from Chang’s remarks:
. . .“Why talk about death and the horrors of a war that happened
sixty years ago, when right at this moment, wanton
destruction and massacres of the innocents are taking place in
Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and in many parts of Africa? Why
indeed!
. . . “It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth. As
such we must be especially careful when reviewing history
written by the victors and losers in war. We must not partake
in the perpetuation of lies and propaganda that serve vested
interests.
. . . “The killings of the Jews cannot and must not be distinguished
from the war crimes committed by all war criminals
against all the victims of the Second World War. The German
citizens who were incinerated by fire-bombs and the Japanese
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were vaporized by nuclear
bombs are as much victims as the Jews. They were all victims
of WWII. Those who continue to promote the political line
that the Holocaust is a unique and an exceptional Jewish historical
event, when compared to the sufferings of the other
victims, such as the Chinese who were slaughtered in excess of
10 million, have to that extent minimized the atrocities committed
by both sides in WWII. It is an attempt to white-wash
the war crimes of the victors in WWII.
. . . “The Holocaust is now being used as a benchmark by
which all other atrocities are judged, such that when the full
horror of the devastation in Iraq was exposed, the international
media contemptuously dismissed the war crimes committed
against the Iraqi people as the price of establishing
democracy. The same goes for the Palestinians.
. . . “No one race or community should be allowed to arrogate
to itself and or demand exclusive memorials to their sufferings.
The right to survive cannot be monopolized by one race
or community. To accept that the Holocaust was an exceptional
Jewish historical event is to deny the genocides, massacres
and sufferings inflicted on the rest of mankind throughout
history. This cannot be right.
. . . “I cannot help but question the motives of those who seek
to elevate the sufferings of the Jewish people above those who
had suffered as much, if not more from the horrors of WWII.
And when the sufferings of the Jewish people have turned into
an industry we owe a moral duty to the departed to ensure
that no one should profit from blood money, more so, when
lies are perpetrated to further such profiteering.
. . . “If we are gathered here to seek truth and to condemn war
crimes, then we must condemn all war crimes, not just those
allegedly committed by the defeated in WWII. If we judge
Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo as war criminals, then we cannot
but find Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin guilty as well.
. . . “We must set up an International Commission of Jurists to
review the findings of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.
. . . “We must set up a War Crimes Tribunal to adjudicate on
the crimes of all Allied Powers leaders during WWII.
. . . “We must set up a War Crimes Tribunal to adjudicate on
the war crimes of all Zionist leaders, specifically the past and
present leaders of the state of Israel.
(Issue #1/2, January 1 & 8, 2007, AMERICAN
FREE PRESS)
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