It's long been obvious the United Nations is a rubber stamp lapdog of the United States. It set the stage for a decade of sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and piled sanctions on Libya that resulted in the US and NATO (another lapdog) taking military action that killed around 30,000 Libyans. [...]
Associated Press reports the "resolution adopted by the assembly said the body, known as the "International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism", would help collect and analyze evidence of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law "to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings".
There is nothing fair and independent about it. If it were truly fair, the top human rights violator, the United States government and its Pentagon, would be at the top of the UN's to-do list.
The US is responsible for the "civil war" in Syria. It has agitated for "regime change" since at least 2005 under the guise of "democracy promotion," well before the CIA sent operatives - many were "rebels" that participated in the US-NATO Libyan massacre - into the city of Deraa to stir up trouble.
Because al-Assad will not leave office willingly (having been elected by the Syrian people), the only option appears to be the Slobodan Milošević treatment. This Serbian, the former president of the late Yugoslavia - which was chopped into bantustans by NATO and the United States following a sustained bombing campaign by
Bill Clinton - was arrested and sent to The Hague to face prosecution for alleged war crimes. He subsequently died while in confinement.
I'm not saying Milošević was a nice guy. It is said he killed his political opponents. However, his alleged crimes, when compared to the behavior of US client states and partners - Israel and Saudi Arabia come to mind - are paltry by way of comparison.
It should be noted that after Milošević died, the International Court of Justice concluded separately in the Bosnian Genocide Case that there was no evidence linking him to the [alleged] genocide committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War.
*Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst unter dem Titel "Syria, the UN and the Slobodan Milošević treatment." Die von Dikigoros gewählte Überschrift war ursprünglich der Untertitel.
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