Amnesty Int´l Report 2009 on Kuwait, a Fake, Pseudo-Arab, Dictatorial Territory Under Colonial Rule

Kuwait is not an independent country; it is a colonial territory that has no history, no identity, no culture, and no education. Never ever had this territory with the odd name (rather a diminutive designating in Arabic a small castle nearby the coast) been the center of an independent state or even an important part of it. In the Antiquity, most of the territory almost did not exist, as most of Kuwait´s northern and northeastern coastal land was progressively formed because of the alluvial deposits of Euphrates and Tigris, similarly with the southernmost part of today´s Iraq.

Curiously enough, Kuwait´s historical importance hinges on a small island, Failaka, where Aramaean Christian Nestorian antiquities have been excavated; it is seems that in earlier strata Babylonians and Sumerians had left significant remains. The fallacies contained in modern literature about Failaka are only due to the false interpretation of the Oriental Antiquity by the European colonial academia and the subsequent minimization of the Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Babylonian, etc.) civilizations, the systematic eradication of the Aramaean Heritage, and the illogical accentuation of the "importance" of Alexander´s fleeing passage from the area.

Whoever inhabited today´s Kuwaiti territory in the period between 300 BCE and 650 CE (almost 1000 years) was an Araamean – or a foreign administrator, who could have been Babylonian, Persian, Parthian or even Aramaean, as the state of Characene was mostly of Southeastern Aramaean ethnic background.

With the progressive islamization, the Arameans, who inhabited the entire southern coastland of the Persian Gulf (the "Lower Sea" of the Assyrians and the Babylonians), started speaking Arabic, which has derived from Syriac Aramaic as writing. Similarly with what happened in the southern Mesopotamian and the southern Persian territories, the arabization process was only linguistic, not cultural and not ethnic. The entire population of Arabia (Hedjaz) at the times of Prophet Muhammad did not total that of a sizeable Greek, Egyptian, Aramaean or Persian city, such as Caesarea of Cappadocia, Alexandria, Antioch and Tesifun (Ctesiphon).

After being part of the Islamic Caliphate´s territory for 900 years, today´s Kuwaiti territory started being ruled from Istanbul when the Ottoman sultanate expanded in Mesopotamia, Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and North Africa in the first half of the 16th century. At those days, and for several hundreds of years, a resident in today´s Kuwaiti territory could travel to today´s Egypt, Algeria, Eritrea, Azerbaijan, Greece, Ukraine and Hungary without getting out of his own country´s borders!

This was the great time of the Ottoman Caliphate. The peaceful period took an end with the rise of the English and the French colonials in the Orient. The colonial involvement took the form of bribery, conspiracy against one´s own country, and skilful agitation of unsuspicious Ottoman citizens against their own religion, culture and nation. Racist Anti-Ottoman and Anti-Islamic lies and fallacies were subsequently diffused among the victims of the aforementioned evildoings so that their docility towards Orient´s, Islam´s and Oriental Christianity´s enemies becomes irreversible.

With the anticipation of the immense need of the industrialized world for energy, it was clear to the corrupt, heinous and malignant minds of the Anglo-French colonials that, if the Ottoman Empire continued to exist in the 20th century, it would naturally become the world´s wealthiest and strongest nation, although decay and ignorance had prevailed throughout the vast state since the end of the 16th century.

Effectively exploiting the socio-cultural contradictions of the decayed Islamic Caliphate (that have mostly to do with the diffusion of the erroneous and suicidal theological system of Ibn Taimiya – something that had happened throughout the central parts of the caliphate already before the Ottoman arrival), the Anglo-French colonials implemented the same methods that they had applied in India and Africa.

These methods involved also –at a later stage – discord, secession, and instrumentalization of marginal elements (such as an ignorant and analphabet tribal leader in early 19th century "Kuwait") against the central administration of a huge state engaged in wars against Spain, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Persia at the same time!

This evildoing´s offspring is the mongrel state of Kuwait.

Of course, it took a series of malignant acts, premeditated policies, and heinous deeds to make of a barbaric family the rulers of a territory that did not belong to them!

Few know today that Al Sabah family originates from today´s Saudi Arabia´s territories.

The comical Wikipedia lies make no sense; Sabah I bin Jaber was not "elected" (1756) as emir of today´s Kuwaiti territory because simply this sort of procedure was not a practice. It is absolutely pathetic and ridiculous that Wikipedia´s entry Kuwait (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait#cite_note-11) refers to an official Kuwaiti website to offer a proof for this assertion´s veracity!

The pathetic and historically baseless policies of Pan-Arabism and the Wahhabi falsification of Islam were introduced in Kuwait during the period the territory was an English protectorate. The barbaric and ignorant ruling family could never understand the reasons for which the English advised them so. Recent developments offered a clear explanation about the extreme disgrace in which a petty, colonial state can fall, while being utilized for the interests of foreign powers that viciously targets its existence – and not only.

It would therefore be comical to expect today´s useless state of Kuwait to be an example of democratic and liberal society whereby Human Rights are respected.

At the same time, it would be quite romantic to imagine that Western Human Rights organizations would make about Kuwait as much noise as they customarily produce against Sudan; yet, there is absolutely no difference in the barbaric mentality that prevails in the minds of both countries´ rulers. They are identical.

I herewith republish integrally the Amnesty International Report 2009 on Kuwait; while it focuses on many very preoccupying subjects, the Report lacks the necessary background approach that would help the leading humanitarian NGO fully illuminate the monstrosity and the inhumanity of the local administration that is shamefully stamped as pro-Western, thus misinforming the unsuspicious Western readership.

Amnesty International Report 2009 - Kuwait

http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/kuwait

Profile

Head of state: al-Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah

Head of government: al-Shaikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah

Death penalty: retentionist

Population: 2.9 million

Life expectancy: 77.3 years

Under-5 mortality (m/f): 11/9 per 1,000

Adult literacy: 93.3 per cent

Amnesty International Report 2009 - Kuwait

Migrant workers continued to experience exploitation and abuse, and to demand protection of their rights. Some were deported after participating in mass protests. The government promised to improve conditions. Several journalists were prosecuted. One case of torture was reported. At least 12 people were under sentence of death but no executions were known to have been carried out.

Migrants´ rights

In July, thousands of migrant workers, mostly Bangladeshis, held mass protests to demand better pay and working conditions. Police used batons and tear gas to disperse the protests, and as many as 1,000 workers were reported to have been rounded up and deported. Some alleged that they had been beaten and otherwise ill-treated by police at the time of arrest and while detained.

Following the unrest the government introduced a minimum monthly wage for cleaners and security guards employed by companies on government contracts but not for other workers. On 8 September, the parliamentary Human Rights Committee called for a review of the system under which foreign workers must be sponsored by a Kuwaiti employer.

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"...several journalists were prosecuted on defamation and other charges..."

Thousands of women domestic workers were especially vulnerable to abuse by employers. In August, the parliamentary Human Rights Committee proposed a new bill stipulating jail terms of up to 15 years for offences including forced labour, abusing workers and sexually exploiting domestic workers.

Counter-terror and security

Four Kuwaiti men continued to be held at the US detention facility in Guantánamo Bay. On 22 October, US military prosecutors filed war crimes charges against two of them, Fouad al-Rabia and Faiz al-Kandari. If convicted of conspiracy and supporting terrorism, they could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

On 22 May, masked State Security officials detained Adel Abdul Salam al-Dhofairi, blindfolded, handcuffed and shackled him, and interrogated him over three days. They asked him to identify an Afghan man suspected of sending people to Afghanistan, and accused him of passing a small amount of money for families in need to this man, which he denied. The officials beat Adel al-Dhofairi severely, plunged him in freezing water and made him run blindfolded and handcuffed along a corridor. He was then taken before the prosecutor, who authorized his further detention for 15 days and fined him. He was released without charge after 18 days in detention. Adel al-Dhofairi´s attempt to lodge a complaint to the authorities was refused and no investigation was carried out.

Freedom of expression

An independent journalists´ union was formed in July, four years after its establishment had been rejected by a court. However, several journalists were prosecuted on defamation and other charges although these no longer incur prison sentences.

On 8 March, two editors were fined by the Criminal Court in Kuwait City and their newspaper licences were withdrawn. Mansur Ahmad Muhareb al-Hayni, editor of the weekly al-Abraj newspaper, was convicted of defaming the Prime Minister, and Hamed Turki Abu Yabes, editor of the weekly al-Shaab, was convicted of publishing political articles (his newspaper is licensed only to report on arts and culture).

A proposed new law to punish "internet offenders" would, according to reports, prescribe imprisonment and fines for a range of online offences, including promoting immoral conduct, encouraging anti-government sentiments, divulging state secrets, and insulting Islam.

Death penalty

At least 12 people were on death row, including six who were sentenced in 2008, but no executions were known to have been carried out. Two of four death sentences confirmed by the Supreme Court were later commuted by the Amir, the Head of State.

In December, Kuwait voted against a UN General Assembly resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions.

On 24 June, the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence imposed on Sheikh Talal bin Nasser al-Sabah, a member of the royal family, in December 2007 for drug smuggling.

On 8 July, the Amir commuted the death sentence imposed on May Membriri Vecina, a domestic worker from the Philippines, after she was convicted of murdering one of her employer´s children and attempting to murder two others. At her trial, she alleged that her employer had physically and mentally abused her, causing her to become mentally incapable.

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Kuwaiti family members of Guantanamo detainees and others demonstrate outside the Old Bailey, London.