Father Shay Cullen is an Irish missionary priest and the founder of the PREDA Foundation./ photo from Wikipedia |
On February 27, an article was published on this same site highlighting
the revelation of a foreign netizen about a certain Irish priest – Fr. Shay
Cullen, who was tagged as silent anti- Duterte based on his attacks through his
column in Manila Times.
“What is very clear to me, is that this is how all the
Rappler reporting gets into Europe – this is all available in German as well as
English. Fr. Shay Cullen has become rather silent on his anti-Duterte rants in
the Manila Times but he sure is not silent in Europe.” Zimmer wrote on her Facebook
post.
Now, it seemed that Cullen has another silent attack through
his article “Profiles of dictators” where he named some strong leaders of the
world, tagging them as dictators.
Ironically, he did not mention the name of President Rodrigo
Duterte, whom the opposition and human rights advocates like Cullen himself has
been calling a dictator.
Here are some names of leaders with ‘dictators’ profile’,
according to Cullen;
We have the powerful
Chinese leader Xi Jinping getting the Constitution changed so he can remain in
office indefinitely. Human rights violations are common practice.
Bashar al-Assad,
President of Syria, is branded a war criminal for bombing with Russian help,
and killing and torturing thousands of his own people to stay in power. The
worst dictator of our time.
President Donald Trump
appears to be a dictator in the making. He is campaigning for a second term
when he has already destroyed his credibility and is facing sex abuse charges
by many women, and possible treason or impeachment for allowing foreign powers,
such as Russia, to subvert the election process and help get him elected. He
says he approves torture and has appointed a new head of the CIA who is
notorious for supporting horrific torture of suspects in the past.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
of Turkey is now a dictator who gave himself additional power through an
alleged rigged referendum, bringing journalists and critics to court on trumped
up charges and jailing them. He allegedly tortures opponents, branding them as
terrorists. He wages war in Northern Syria.
Sudan’s President Omar
Al-Bashir has an international arrest warrant out for him, issued by the
International Criminal Court, to be arrested anywhere to face charges of
genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
President Vladimir
Putin of Russia is a “strongman” dictator 12 years in power and going again for
another six years, having taken over control of all media, silenced his
opponents, barred them from elections and allegedly killed journalists. He is
accused of murdering former spies in the UK with Russian military-made nerve
poison and radioactive substance. He wages war by proxy in the Ukraine and
annexed The Crimea.
The Maldives, the
so-called Indian Ocean island paradise so popular with the Japanese and western
tourists, is ruled by a dictator President Abdulla Yameen, who has declared his
deposed former president a terrorist, arrested two court justices and is mired
in corruption allegations.
The list goes on and
we see the suffering of the victims wherever the tyrant takes more and more
power.
Human suffering,
poverty, deprivation and social and personal injustice mire the land, plague
the cities and infect the population of a dictatorship. Economic disruption,
inequality and a cloud of great sadness and pain descend to cover all in misery
like soot from a polluting chimney. Such is the dire outcome of dictatorship.
The dictators have their supporters and hangers-on who seek rewards and a share
of the ill-gotten wealth, petty power and privilege.
Source: Manila Times
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