UN has become theatre of the absurd
THE UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on Russia to pay reparations for the damages it has inflicted on Ukraine.
There were 94 in favour, with 14 against and 73 abstentions, including South Africa. Seventy-seven years after its founding, the UN is still largely the preserve of Western nations, adopting resolutions defending powerful nations and giving comfort to their political minions, who continue to commit grotesque crimes against humanity, making the crimes in Ukraine pale into insignificance.
One particular power, supported by a powerful superpower, violated 28 resolutions of the UN Security Council (which are legally binding on member nations, UN Charter, Article 25).
The UN’s foremost stated aim is “to maintain international peace and security”, a task that lies with its most powerful body, the Security Council.
Most of the member nations of the UN were engaged, and some are still engaged, in conflicts that are crimes against humanity, some are planning a new holocaust, while others are seizing land and displacing millions of innocent civilians in total violation of international law.
No resolutions are passed against these member states requesting reparations. More than 40 million innocent civilians were killed in illegal wars while the UN looked on as a passive observer. At the end of 2021, 90 million people were forcibly displaced by wars of aggression that the UN was unable to deter.
Who speaks for these 90 million people? Has any nation been singled out to pay reparation to these struggling refugees?
The Muslim holocaust in Bosnia was a deadly example of UN incompetence.
It was Winston Churchill who said: “The UN was not designed to take us to heaven, but to save us from hell on earth.”
Under UN sanctions more than 2 million young Iraqi children lost their lives due to hunger. Which nation is liable for reparation payments?
Passing one-sided resolutions, the UN General Assembly has indeed become the theatre of the absurd. In every corner of the globe, wars rage on unabated, powerful members of the UN are the main instigators of these bloody conflicts, and under international law, these countries are liable for reparations and prosecution under International Criminal Court regulations.
George Orwell, in his seminal essay “Politics and the English language”, wrote about “meaningless words”. His description is perhaps an adequate explanation of today’s UN General Assembly, which conveniently ignores brutal violations by members of the UN Security Council and their allies, and ignoring genocide in many areas of the world.
The General Assembly should instead have passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Ukraine. We are now as a result of UN partiality, within the cross-hairs of a nuclear conflict that will obliterate humanity and the glass towers of the UN.
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