Top Three UN Officers Dodged USA-IRAQ & Pinpointed Sri Lanka – UN CREDIBILITY TO ZERO
AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL, AT THE DEBATE ON CIVILIAN PROTECTION, THE MOST SENIOR UN OFFICERS (Ban Kimoon, Navi Pillai, John Homes) FORGOT U.S. ATRROCITIES IN IRAQ BUT PIN POINTED SRI LANKA – SRI LANKA SLAMMED FOR POLITICIZING CIVILIAN PROTECTION.
The guardians of human rights have forgotten attrocities done by USA, UK, EU and criticized only mistakes of poor nations. The credibility of UN has come down to zero. How can we trust UN when top most senior UN officers ignore super powers’ war crimes and finger point only poor countries? World should boycot UN. Ban Ki-moon UN secretary General, Navi Pillai (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and John Holmes (Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator) dodged naming Iraqi civilian deaths and finger pointed Sri Lankan civilian deaths during debate on Civilian Protection at UN Security Council. Dr. Palitha Kohana slammed for politicization and selectivity characterizing the debate on Civilian Protection at UN Security Council
JOHN HOLMES,
“Nevertheless, I fear all too little has changed for the better on the ground in recent years,” he said, noting that civilians accounted for most casualties in armed conflict. In 2009 alone, there had been thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza, Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and elsewhere; 2010 did not look much better. Displacement through conflict was getting worse, he said, recalling that 2009 had seen 6.8 million people internally displaced, more than at any point since the mid-1990s. Conflict had displaced an alarming total of 27.1 million people around the globe — the highest ever — at the end of 2009.
NAVI PILLAY
Recalling the conflict in Sri Lanka, she said there had been unacceptably high civilian losses caused by both sides, noting also that some progress had been made since the end of the conflict in returning and resettling internally displaced persons. Concrete initiatives must now follow to provide justice and redress to victims, while promoting accountability and longer-term reconciliation. She welcomed the Secretary-General’s decision to set up an expert panel to advise him on the issues in Sri Lanka.
PALITHA KOHONA
( Sri Lanka) said that although a substantial normative framework had been developed for the protection of civilians, the politicization and selectivity characterizing the debate on implementation had affected its credibility, thereby calling into question the sincerity of the concerns expressed for the plight of civilians affected by armed conflict. The issue could not be addressed on humanitarian terms alone, and nor could the normative framework be applied in a merely theoretical manner.
He said that his country’s experience in dealing with terrorists that used the civilian population as shields behind which to launch attacks showed the complexity of the challenges involved. Many of the rules of war were based on the presumption that parties to a conflict are conventional armies, but terrorists totally disregarded those laws and principles. The causes of armed conflict must also be addressed, including the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, he said, adding that there was also a need to recognize the legitimate role of the military in civilian protection, though it was not an exclusive one.
The principle of unimpeded access for humanitarian personnel must be respected, but it could not disregard the State’s primary responsibility to ensure their safety and security, he said. In Sri Lanka’s experience, the military, often at huge cost, had had to bring civilians out of harm’s way, he said, adding that military and humanitarian personnel must therefore seek to work in partnership. Similarly, civilian displacement must not be politicized or turned into a theoretical problem, he said, calling for the development of a means for holding non-State actors accountable and recognizing the problems of asymmetrical conflicts.
Transcript on Debate on Civilian Protection 7th July http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/sc9973.doc.htm
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