The West enjoys absolute impunity for its crimes, such as the destruction of Iraq at the price of a million Iraqi lives. It is also able to extend this impunity to its proxy states such as Israel and Rwanda.
Imraan Buccus . File Picture: Independent NewspapersFor decades, the US and its allies, including its proxies here in South Africa , such as the Brenthurst Foundation , have argued that the global domination of the West has guaranteed a ‘rules-based order.’
We do not see it now as Rwanda invades the Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing land and mines, and forcing people into labour at gunpoint.There is a strong degree to which Ukrainian lives are deemed to matter because they are white lives, while Palestinian and Congolese lives are deemed expendable because they are not white lives.
When the hearings took place in The Hague on 11 and 12 January the following year, there was global euphoria as people saw that, finally, Israel was being held accountable for its oppression of Palestine, oppression that had mutated into outright genocide. The coalition, comprising Namibia, South Africa, Malaysia, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Belize, Senegal, and Chile, has made three core commitments. These include supporting and enforcing International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued against Israeli officials for war crimes, imposing restrictions on arms transfers that could facilitate violations of humanitarian law, and denying docking rights to vessels carrying military fuel and supplies to Israel.
The Namibian Minister of Justice, Yvonne Dausab, was hugely impressive. She emphasised the imperative of concrete action, saying that"When future generations inquire about our contribution to Palestine’s right to self-determination, our response must be: we took concrete measures. Or we will be remembered as leaders who watched and did nothing.
Ideally, this should be formalised in a worker-driven version of the wonderful breakthrough that has happened via the state-driven Hague Group.
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