Former President Jerry John Rawlings is convinced that report of chemical weapon attack on Syrians is a ploy to make the Assad government look bad and pave way for the West to perpetuate their “uncivilized behaviour” against the Assad’s regime.
Calling the machinations of the US government and its allies against Syria as “daylight robbery”, Mr. Rawlings demanded an independent investigation into claims that the Syrian government has resorted to the use of chemical weapon on innocent civilians.
“This act of underhand desperation should be seen and recognised for what it is. The world cannot be so naive as not to see through this kind of confidence propaganda,” Mr. Rawlings said in a strongly-worded four-page statement.
The former Ghanaian leader appears incensed by the silence of most world leaders whom he expects to have “condemned this subterfuge”.
He wondered: “The big question now is how an Armed Force that has virtually beaten the rebel resistance with Russian assistance and with victory on a threshold could conceive of such madness as to dump chemical weapons at innocent civilians and children. Where is the sense in this illogical accusation if it wasn’t done to create a false impression in order to justify what the USA and the West are doing?”
In his assessment, the development in Syria which has empowered the USA and the allies to embark on this “fraudulent behavior” against the Assad government is as a result of the extent of decline of international morality and a manifestation of the decay in the quality of leadership in some parts of the world.
“All in all an independent body involving neutral states must be set up to investigate where these chemicals came from. This body must be free from the influence of the accusers and must carefully investigate and expose the real perpetrators. Then and only then can the world know who the real hidden perpetrators are.”
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