April 13, 2018
False flag, which are covert operations designed to deceive the
enemy by staging an attack which creates the appearance of a particular group
or nation being responsible for it by disguising the actual source of
responsibility, is an effective ruse in warfare.
Four cases where false flags have led to Major Wars include:
1. In 1914, a colonel in the intelligence
Service of Serbia trained, armed, financed and directed seven
Bosnian Serbs who were citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and
planned the execution of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne (Franz
Ferdinand) using these Bosnian Serbs. Acting as a rogue element, Colonel Apis
as he was called, did it without the knowledge or consent of the Serbian
authority. France Ferdinand got killed by his boys on June 28, 1914, Austria
accused Serbia, refused all apologies and claims of innocence from the Serbian
king and government, then declared war on Serbia. Russia came to Serbia's
defense, Germany backed Austria-Hungary and the other powers honored their
alliances, leading to World War One where Serbia lost a quarter of its
population and where 17 million people died. Colonel Apis's leading role in the
assassination was later discovered by Serbia and he was executed by Serbia in
1917. He achieved his goal though---the demise of Austria-Hungary and the
unification of the southern Slavs (yugo-Slavs---Serbs, Croats, Slovenes,
Macedonians and Bosnians into Yugoslavia). But was the assassination of the
Austrian heir to the throne by Austrian citizens(Bosnian Serbs), directed by a
Serb from the Kingdom of Serbia justification for that disastrous war that
affected all the continents of the world, became the precursor of the
Second World War, and is still haunting us today, worth it?
2. The second is the case where the US was
fed with wrong information on Iraq by an Iraqi and others, leading to the
invasion of Iraq. Saddam was a dictator all right. But was the US-led war that
ensued worth it? Much has been written about the story of the Iraq War. So,t elaborating any further on it would be belittling the obvious.
3. In the Ukraine, Western-led forces
opposed to the democratically-elected government of its president Viktor
Yanukovych, which was sympathetic to Ukraine neighbor Russia that most
Ukrainians at the time considered a brother nation, rallied against the corrupt
Yanukovych regime in the capital city of Kiev's square---Maidan. He was advised
not to use lethal force to disperse the protesters, but then some of the
leaders of the protest movement set off a false flag attack by using snipers to
fire on both the riot police and the protesters, and then blaming it on the
government, forcing Yanukovych's hand into signing an agreement, which they
failed to honor by going for him, causing Yanukovych to flee Kiev to the second
city Kharkov, whence his opponents hijacked the parliament and ousted him, a
coup that their backers in the West immediately backed by recognizing the
vanguards of the pro-Western movement, and that Russia reacted to by
stage-managing its "democratic" acquisition of Crimea, and then later backing the
forces that opposed the coup in Yanukovych's native Donbas (Donetsk and Lugansk
provinces). More than 10,000 Ukrainians are dead today from the fighting in
Donbas sparked by the false flag attack in the Maidan. Was the sniper attack
ruse worth it? Is the war in the Donbas worth it? Ukraine is even more
corrupt today and it is deindustralizing at an alarming rate.
4. In 1955, a seven-year-old political party
(UPC---Union of the Populations of the Cameroons that was founded by some of
those who first rallied behind French legend General Charles De Gaulle
and his Free French Forces after Nazi Germany's occupation of France in 1940,
the Free French Forces that formed the cream of the French army that liberated
Paris in 1944 and led the French contribution to the liberation of all of
France) championing the reunification of the UN Trust Territories of
British Cameroons and French Cameroun (territories of the former German Kamerun
that Britain and France wrestled from Germany during the First World War and
partitioned it among themselves) with a civic-nationalist outlook and
commanding 80% of the popular support of French Camerounians, was banned
by France under false flags that it orchestrated rioting, sparking off a
clampdown that led to the exile and the incarceration of most of
its leadership, and forcing it to pick up arms one year later, after
France installed a puppet transition government in the territory
before granting French-Cameroun independence in 1960. The UPC’s sister parties
in British Southern Cameroons would realize reunification by voting to join the
puppet “Republique du Cameroon” (the former French Cameroun) in 1961, and
the war of liberation would continue against French troops and the new
Cameroonian army it built. The result would be half a million deaths and
Cameroon being a quasi-independent state and backyard of France where
those who fought for its future have never ruled. Today, there is a 40-year-old French-backed dictatorship of Paul Biya and a French-imposed
system that is loathed by most Cameroonians, a system that has marginalized Anglophone Cameroonians to the point where some groups have
picked up arms and are demanding the secession of Anglophone Cameroon, the
former British Southern Cameroons. Was the false flag attack against the
UPC necessary, especially as it has forced France and its Western allies that
supported or are supporting it to back two unpopular dictatorships in
Cameroon that have impoverished, oppressed, and suppressed the Cameroonian
people?
As Ehud Barak once said that:
"The
most-complicated peace is better than the simplest war."
Nations and states should not go to war on so-called
evidence that is hazy or false to almost everybody. False flag attacks exist,
and we always need to make sure they don’t exist before engaging in a
war. Those who use false flag attacks to achieve their goals always fail to
take into account unintended consequences.
By Janvier T. Chando, author
of ICONS AND VILLAINS: Recent Political Assassinations That Transformed
Countries, Regions and the World
The Union Moujik
Ukraine: The Tug-of-war between Russia and the West
by Janvier T. Chando,
