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What good is it that the War Criminal Tribunal in The Hague possesses extensive material when it lacks international political will to bring Syrian executioners to justice?




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

In the text of the Syrian revolutionaries one feels the quivering but powerless anger over the conduct and omnipotence of the statesmen. It is also noted by Carla Del Ponte, the retired Chief Prosecutor of the War Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, who was interviewed over many pages in Der Spiegel, 24.11.2018: «The evil lurks, it twists, it chops, it is faster than one would have trusted. the »(p. 134 – 137).

The conversation with Der Spiegel's editor Romain Leick in Ascona, Switzerland is fueled by the feeling we all have: What a difference between the 90's and the very first 00's persecution and arrest of war criminals from former Yugoslavia and today's "Straflosigkeit" for even more persistent and bloodthirsty criminals like the people and allies of the Assad regime. And Dal Ponte and her 600 employees in The Hague (between 2011 and 2017) have gathered all the material for the grand trial against the Syrian executioners, but there is a lack of "political will" to conduct such a very extensive trial that would involve Russia, Iran and China. Dal Ponte only mentions Putin as the one who would be summoned immediately. And neither she nor her staff were ever allowed to enter Syria, so they had to interview the victims outside, in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. "I never thought we would sink so deep again," Dal Ponte concludes. It is this amazement that the Syrian revolutionaries call the "hallucinatory" that is slowly but surely penetrating all the politics of the world. And it is flowing through the actions of the Yellow West, and it also hit the Town Hall Square on December 10 (2018) for the well-attended demonstration «Now it Enough» in Copenhagen at Mellemfolkelig Samvirke. But the statesmen are, of course, completely unchallenged, for the foaming rage lacks any means to carry out merely the pious intent of suing, for example, Assad, Putin, Xi, or Saudi Arabian Prince Ben Sav.

We have reached beyond the legal stage. We are now in the military. You could call it the double nature of state impunity: The power of power makes the state's repeal hyperactive, unbearable topical, a haunt, a ghost that is there all the time, everywhere. It is for this reason that the testimony of Aleppo and Ghouta is constantly brought, or the testimony of Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, or of Tibet and Xinjiang.

See mainly: Syrian echo / yellow vests.

Carsten Juhl
Carsten Juhl
Juhl resides in Copenhagen.

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