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揭开“记者无国界”组织的真面目
作者:阿吉特-兰德尼亚
斯里兰卡新闻网（lankaweb.com news）
一个世纪以前，以讽喻见长的奥地利时评媒体《火炬》就评论道：“众多报纸似乎展现了这样一种盛况：成千上万只脏手一齐拿着扫帚，都在专心地打扫别人家的门阶。”
据披露，有1278家所谓非政府组织（NGO）在位于斯里兰卡的非政府组织秘书处(NGO Secretariat)登记，其中仅147家获得的国外资金就达163亿美元。记者无国界组织（英文简称RWB/法文简称RSF）作为其中一家受外国政府和间谍机构资助而化身非政府组织的机构，可谓伪装得最好不过。它和一些媒体和宗教团体沆瀣一气，对斯里兰卡近期的社会稳定构成严重威胁。
Anti-CNN网站的一位网友对作为美国中央情报局(CIA)秘密机构的记者无国界组织的“操作手法”做了极好的总结：一，有计划的对有关国家进行心理战；二，以公布“媒体自由指数”作幌子掩饰西方国家的媒体审查机制；大造舆论保护特工身份被暴露的“记者”以免受牢狱之灾。
记者无国界组织常用的一个舆论武器就是污蔑他国进步政府制造政治分化，并利用资本主义国家的国际性报章的舆论影响力来煽风点火，以协助政治对立团体。正如其名字中的“无国界”所示，记者无国界组织大肆攻讦独立主权国家赖以保护国家安全、国家利益和公共秩序的国家安全法规。
对这家挂着NGO羊头的记者无国界组织的历史考察结果表明，《火炬》的评论恰如其分。
记者无国界组织由法国人罗伯特-梅纳德于1979年在法国设立，声称要倡导全球新闻自由，并保护记者免受迫害。他在2008年9月之前一直担任该组织的秘书长。由于美国、加拿大和法国的一些有良知的媒体对其恶行的大力揭露，梅纳德黯然离职。
梅纳德出生于阿尔及利亚的一个法国殖民家族，这个家族19世纪50年代就来到阿尔及利亚，于1962年因阿尔及利亚独立战争才离开该国。因此，梅纳德是一个地地道道的法国殖民者，他一直对他在阿尔及利亚独立战争中失去的特权愤愤不平。他一直幻想恢复殖民特权而不得，故而使用卑鄙的手法破坏任何力图摆脱西方桎梏的国家的社会稳定，来作为报复。他一回到法国，表面上研习宗教准备做牧师，却进行“媒体自由”活动以破坏发展中国家。
多年来，许多有良知的西方著名记者和作家批驳了梅纳德领导的记者无国界组织操纵的政治行动；尤其是在拉美，RWB作为CIA的前哨站，支持美国政府攻击古巴、委内瑞拉和玻利维亚等国进步政府的政治和舆论宣传活动。
据巴黎的一家名为“红色伏尔泰”的报纸（Red Voltaire）披露，２００２年，梅纳德和“自由古巴中心”（ＣＦＣ）签订过协议。ＣＦＣ是美国国际开发署（ＵＳＡＩＤ）的前哨站，专门向欧洲国家宣传古巴如何压制迫害新闻记者。
２００５年，供职一家加拿大媒体常驻哈瓦那的法国记者让－盖伊－阿拉德（Jean-Guy Allard）撰书揭露了梅纳德的政治恶行及其资金来源。梅纳德从美国国家民主基金会（ＮＥＤ）、ＣＩＡ和欧盟等处获得资助。
美国自由记者和北加州传媒公会的成员戴安娜－巴拉红娜（Ｄｉａｎａ Ｂａｒａｈｏｎａ）在名为“回击”的节目中报道说，ＲＷＢ是对卡斯特罗政权进行“新保守主义”攻伐的一部分，并从美国国务院领取薪水。
２００５年２月，法国记者马克西米－维瓦斯要求欧盟指定一位仲裁人调查ＲＷＢ和美国政府合谋破坏古巴政府以及阴谋干涉独立国家的政治、社会、文化和卫生体制的活动。前ＣＩＡ特工菲利普－阿吉为维瓦斯提供了有力可信的证据。他供称，ＲＷＢ的后台老板ＮＥＤ实际隶属于ＣＩＡ。比如，ＣＩＡ和ＮＥＤ在尼加拉瓜联合设立了一个名为“公民道路”（Ｃｉｖｉｃ Ｗａｙ）的组织作为活动前哨。欧盟曾给予超过１２０万欧元的资助，很显然地，欧盟对维瓦斯的要求根本不会理睬。２００８年，她又写了一本书，名为“记者无国界组织的另一面：从中情局到五角大楼”。
来自这些记者的压力迫使梅纳德承认从美国国务院出资设立的ＮＥＤ获得资助，还有欧盟、法国政府以及ＣＦＣ。
这些调查ＲＷＢ的记者们还发现，ＲＷＢ在美国的财务报告由弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚市的一家事务所出具，该事务所距离ＣＩＡ总部仅１５分钟车程。而ＲＷＢ一直声称是ＮＧＯ，其驻美办事处设在纽约。
ＮＥＤ资助ＲＷＢ在拉美的活动，是里根促成的，目的是削弱那些对抗美国霸权的拉美国家政府。受美国后台老板的指使，ＲＷＢ从上世纪８０年代起就把古巴列为首要目标，污蔑古巴是全世界最大的记者监狱，并大肆活动以阻止欧洲人去古巴度假，阻止欧盟在古巴的商务活动。
自乌戈－查韦斯当选委内瑞拉总统以来，ＲＷＢ就成了委内瑞拉传媒大亨古斯塔沃－西斯内罗斯的工具。西斯内罗斯一手遮天的舆论垄断地位受到查韦斯推行的民主化媒体所有权新法案的威胁。ＲＷＢ做出的回应是捏造委内瑞拉新闻记者的人身安全问题并大做文章，并积极支持以推翻查韦斯的政变（失败）。
ＲＷＢ伙同ＣＩＡ的其他附属前哨机构“人权观察”和“保护记者委员会”，再次活动以对抗委内瑞拉政府对该国最大有线电视网加拉加斯广播电视公司重新核发广播许可证的法令。这个广播电视台公开支持２００２年的政变以推翻民选政府。约翰－皮尔格指出，如果英国广播公司或者独立电视台利用新闻舆论公开支持政变推翻英国政府，他们会有同样下场。
ＲＷＢ以“压制舆论”为名，捏造不实指控，积极支持并参与了在古巴、委内瑞拉和玻利维亚的许多罪恶活动。ＲＷＢ专门针对一些坚持反对美国霸权立场的国家，而对附庸美国的拉美国家，比如哥伦比亚、秘鲁和墨西哥等一些对于记者来说更危险的国家不予理会。梅纳德还声称对古巴记者因被控渗入迈阿密社团而被判在美国监狱终生监禁一事“毫不知情”。这些在迈阿密的古巴人社团一直图谋在古巴制造恐怖袭击。
尽管劣迹斑斑，ＲＷＢ继续进行“建立信任”的活动，比如它于２００８年３月１２日发起的“互联网自由日”活动。它捏造的所谓的“网络管制”国家黑名单里没有一个西方国家，而全部是所谓第三世界国家。大概是鉴于大多数会员国的压力，联合国教科文组织（ＵＮＥＳＣＯ）当日撤销了对其赞助。
梅纳德于２００８年９月辞去了ＲＷＢ秘书长之后，又得到了几个中东独裁国家的资助另起炉灶，他现在是０８年１０月开始运作的位于卡塔尔多哈的“媒体自由中心”（
Doha Center for Media Freedom）的主任。
通过对ＲＷＢ的金主及其活动的简单介绍可以看出，在维克拉马通加（Lasantha Wickramatunga）被杀之后，它们利用影子前哨发动的国际反斯里兰卡运动如出一辙。
我们必须取缔ＲＷＢ在斯里兰卡的活动，才可能保护好斯里兰卡的国家安全、政治和其他权利。ＵＮＥＳＣＯ有例在先，政府基于相关信息，很容易将此措施合法化。
原文：http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/020209-3.html
Reporters Without Borders:the real face
Ajit Randeniya
More than a century ago, the Austrian satirical review Die Fackel (The Torch) made the observation: 'The newspapers seem to offer up the spectacle of a million dirty hands holding a million brooms, all bent on sweeping other people's doorsteps'.
With the reported 1,278 so-called NGOs registered with the NGO Secretariat in Sri Lanka, just 147 of them receiving Rs.16.3 billion in foreign funds, the same could be said of the so-called NGOs. No other such body fits the model, of a group funded by foreign governments and spy agencies posing as a NGO, better than the outfit known as Reporters Without Borders (RWB, Reporters sans frontières, RSF). This group, in collaboration with some of the media and religious groups is posing a serious threat to Sri Lanka's near term security and well being.
A writer to 'Anti-CNN Forum' website best summarised the 'modus operandi' of RWB, as a covert CIA organisation with the aims: 1. Wage psychological operations (PSYOP wars) against countries with independent agendas, 2. Play down systematic media censorship in Western countries with 'Media-Freedom-Index' propaganda, and 3. Save journalists unveiled as intelligence agents from prison with dedicated campaigns.
One of the common propaganda weapons RWB employs is to accuse progressive governments of provoking political polarisation, and using freedom of the international capitalist press to facilitate sedition by assisting opposition groups. As the name 'Without Borders' warns, RWB attacks security laws of independent countries which aim to protect their national security, state interests and public order.
An examination of the history of this shadowy entity and its activities shows that the above observations are entirely accurate.
RWB was set up in France in 1979 by a French national named Robert Ménard, allegedly to advocate freedom of the press around the world and to help journalists under attack. He remained the secretary-general of RWB until September 2008, when the principled campaign of exposure of this fraud by the liberal media in the US, Canada and France ultimately forced him to ride in to the sunset.
Coming from an old French colonising family which had lived in Algeria since the 1850s and was forced to leave in 1962 during the Algerian war of independence, Ménard is essentially a French colonialist who continues to be angry over the loss of privilege that resulted from Algeria's victory of the war of independence. He seems to be unable to 'get over it', and is attempting to avenge his loss by resorting to devious methods aimed at destabilising all countries with a desire to escape from Western clutches. Upon returning to France, apparently he studied religion and planned on becoming a priest before he chose' media freedom' (instead of religion) to undermine the developing world!
For many years, various prominent liberal investigative journalists and writers in the West have denounced the largely political actions of the shadowy entity Ménard founded, especially with regards to its activities in Latin America, serving as a CIA front to back Washington's political and media war against the progressive governments in Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.
The Paris daily, 'Red Voltaire' revealed that in 2002, Menard had negotiated a contract with the Center for a Free Cuba (CFC), a CIA front funded through USAID to 'inform Europeans about the repression against journalists in Cuba'.
In 2005, the Havana-based French Canadian journalist Jean-Guy Allard wrote a book that exposed Ménard's activities, alliances, and sources of funding which included the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the CIA and the European Union.
American freelance journalist and a member of the Northern California Media Guild, Diana Barahona reported in 'Counterpunch' that RWB was part of a 'neocon crusade against the Castro regime' and was on the payroll of the US State Department.
In February 2005, French investigative reporter Maxime Vivas requested the EU that an EU mediator be appointed to investigate RWB for conniving with the White House to destabilise the Cuban government, and for attempting to intervene in the political, social, cultural, health systems of an independent nation. Vivas produced strong and authentic evidence of the former CIA agent Philip Agee who stated that the RWB's paymaster NED was in fact a CIA front. In Nicaragua, for example, the CIA and the NED had created a civic front called 'Vía Cívica' (Civic Way). Having funded activities to the tune of more than 1.2 million euros, the EU, obviously, ignored Vivas' request. In 2008, she wrote a second book titled 'The Far Side of Reporters Without Borders: the CIA to the Pentagon Hawks'.
Pressure from these journalists forced Ménard to confess to receiving financing from NED, an organisation funded by the US State Department. Other funders are the European Union, the French government and the CFC (funded in turn by USAID and NED).
Journalists who are monitoring RWB have also noted that its U.S. financial report is prepared by a particular firm in Alexandria, Virginia, only a 15-minute drive from CIA headquarters, despite the organisation's claims to be a NGO with its US office in New York.
The NED that funds RWB activities in Latin America was a ceration of Ronald Reagan, with the objective of weakening regional governments resisting the US hegemony. Under orders from its paymaster, RWB made Cuba its prime target since the early 1980s, by calling Cuba 'the world's biggest prison for journalists', waging campaigns aimed at discouraging Europeans from vacationing in Cuba and the European Union from doing business there.
Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, RWB became a tool of the Venezuelan media magnate Gustavo Cisneros whose media monopoly was threatened by the new democratised media ownership legislation introduced by Chavez. RWB reacted by starting a campaign of bogus concern about the safety of reporters in that country, and actively supported the (failed) coup against Chavez.
RWB, together with other CIA fronts Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists, launched another campaign against the refusal of the government of Venezuela to renew the broadcasting licence of Venezuela's largest television network Radio Caracas Televisión, who openly supported the 2002 coup attempt against the democratically elected government. )John Pilger pointed out that if the BBC or ITV used their news broadcasts to publicly support a coup against the British government, they would suffer similar consequences).
RWB was an active accomplice in the crimes against Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia, providing support through campaigns based on bogus charges of media harassment. RWB focused on these countries due to their ant-US hegemony stance rather than focusing on US client states in Latin America such as Colombia, Peru and Mexico which were (and are) much more dangerous for journalists. Menard also claimed to be 'unfamiliar' with the case of a Cuban journalist who is serving life sentences in US prisons for infiltrating the Miami groups who were planning terrorist attacks on his homeland.
Despite this dishonorable background, RWB continues 'confidence building' activities such as the 'Internet Freedom Day' campaign it launched on 12 March 2008. The so-called 'blacklist' of states, supposedly aimed at exposing countries with 'cyber-censorship' did not include a single Western country and its fire was aimed at the so-called Third World. The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) withdrew its sponsorship of (RSF) on the very day, presumably under pressure from its broader membership.
Despite resigning his role as Secretary-General of Reporters without borders in September 2008 and Ménard has now formed another front with financing from some of the Middle East dictatorships: he is the Director-General of the Doha Center for Media Freedom in Qatar which started operations in October 2008.
This short summary of RWB funding sources and its activities shows, that the international anti Sri Lankan campaign they started following the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunga fits neatly in to the model used by this shadowy front.
Sri Lanka's security, political and other interests are likely to be best served by refusing to allow this organisation to operate in Sri Lanka: UNESCO has set a precedent and the government could easily justify such action on the basis of the available information. |
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