Navi Pillay, the chair of the panel that produced the report, said: "The genocide convention was born out of humanity's darkest chapters."
"Today, we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world," she added.
And the civilised world walks on the other side of the road. No good Samaritan's around. Appalling, disgraceful, criminal negligence.
condemning civil war in Ukraine. International law condemns them for their silence. The same silence that supported fascist aggression in Spain. There is a price to be paid for silence:-
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according to legislation introduced by the BRITISH GOVERNMENT and is seen being arrested by the
When a government acts out of foreign interests, harms its citizens, and leads to the killing of innocent people, the orders it issues are manifestly illegal, and it is our duty not to obey them. … This is a war intended to maintain the rule of Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir, and we refuse to take part in it.We can no longer serve Netanyahu’s war for political survival. Some of us will refuse publicly, through statements in the media and on social networks, and many others will do so in other, non-public ways–'gray refusal'.”
This letter marks a rupture in the military consensus. These are people who know the system from the inside: analysts, field researchers, linguists, tech experts, and cyber operatives. And they are saying what many understand but few dare to say: This war is not about rescuing hostages or defending Israeli civilians. It is about preserving a collapsing government.
And the world knows.
The international community knows.
Every European leader knows who is responsible. They have the reports, the charts, the UN statements. They know this is not a “complicated conflict.” They know this is a systematic, methodical destruction of a people. An ethnic cleansing. A genocide in real time.
And yet they stay silent.
Why?
Why this silence? Why the endless talk of “balance,” “complexity,” “proportionality”? How many dead children does it take before someone dares to speak the truth? When the Israeli government talks about “cleansing Gaza,” about “erasing” a population – why does no one call it what it is?
Silence is not neutral. Silence is an action. To be silent is to support.
