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UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Right
s Council
By: Zhang Caizhi Date: April 8, 2022, 1:19 pm
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[quote]
The resolution received a two-thirds majority of those voting,
minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations
voting in favour and 24 against.
Fifty-eight abstained from the process.
Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, were
among those who voted against.
Those abstaining, included India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar,
Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
and Cambodia.
The meeting marked the resumption of a special emergency session
on the war in Ukraine and followed reports of violations
committed by Russian forces.
This past weekend, disturbing photos emerged from the city of
Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, where hundreds of civilian
bodies were found in the streets and in mass graves following
Russia’s withdrawal from the area.
Prior to the vote, Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya urged
countries to support the resolution.
“Bucha and dozens of other Ukrainian cities and villages, where
thousands of peaceful residents have been killed, tortured,
raped, abducted and robbed by the Russian Army, serve as an
example of how dramatically far the Russian Federation has gone
from its initial declarations in the human rights domain. That
is why this case is unique and today’s response is obvious and
self-explanatory,” he said.
This is not the first time that a Member State has had its
membership of the Human Rights Council suspended. Libya lost its
seat in 2011, following repression of protests by ruler Muammar
Gaddafi, who was later overthrown.
Gennady Kuzmin, Deputy Russian ambassador, in remarks before the
vote, called for countries to “vote against the attempt by
Western countries and their allies to destroy the existing human
rights architecture.”
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Re: UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human R
ights Council
By: guest55 Date: April 8, 2022, 5:43 pm
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Interesting to note how many nations voting against, or
abstaining, are former victims of Western colonialism, many of
which do not seem to realize that Russia itself is a former
Western colonial power itself. This is what Marxism has done for
the former Western colonized!!!
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 9, 2022, 4:28 am
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"many of which do not seem to realize that Russia itself is a
former Western colonial power itself."
This is why we have this topic:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/
Then again, some may realize it but are under too much Russian
control even in the present-day:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/putins-exploitation-africa-could-help-130002856.html
[quote]Financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, sometimes called “Putin’s
Chef” because he rose to power after running a catering company
favored by the Kremlin, the Wagner Group first appeared on the
scene in 2014 in Ukraine. “Putin’s shadow army” is estimated to
have as many as 5,000 members and has acted as a mercenary force
fighting on behalf of Russia, but in a way that allows Moscow a
measure of deniability. The group has deployed to other hot
spots around the world, including Libya, Sudan, the Central
African Republic, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mali, and Syria (where
Wagner mercenaries fought a bloody battle with U.S. special
forces in 2018).
In Sudan, where the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019 could have
left Russia without a corrupt partner, the Wagner Group found a
friend in Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (aka Hemedti)—Sudan’s second in
command and leader of the genocidal militia the Rapid Support
Forces, previously known as the Janjaweed. Hemedti had made his
own fortune running a shadow economy dominated by gold exports.
He also helped Russia secure access to gold mines.
...
In the Central African Republic, where the Wagner Group has an
outsized role and a Wagner operative serves as the president’s
security advisor, a joint investigation by The Sentry and CNN
established that mercenaries from the group have engaged in
atrocities including murder, rape, and torture to capture areas
that are rich in gold, diamonds, and other minerals. Wagner has
also initiated a process to change the mining code to create a
monopoly for itself in the country’s gold and diamond mining
sector.
By using the Wagner Group to burrow into these resource-rich
countries and secure lucrative mining concessions, Russia has
been trying to future-proof itself against the kinds of
sanctions now being imposed by the U.S. and its allies.[/quote]
This is why we have this topic:
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Re: UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human R
ights Council
By: Zhang Caizhi Date: April 9, 2022, 7:32 am
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[quote author=Mazda link=topic=202.msg12610#msg12610
date=1649457829]
Interesting to note how many nations voting against, or
abstaining, are former victims of Western colonialism, many of
which do not seem to realize that Russia itself is a former
Western colonial power itself. This is what Marxism has done for
the former Western colonized!!!
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Many Thai royalists still talk about the diplomacy between Thai
King Rama V and Russian Emperor Nicholas II that spared them
from complete colonisation by either the British or the French.
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HM King Chulalongkorn, Rama V arrives in St Petersburg, Russia
on 3 July 1897, calls on Czar Nicholas II & establishes
diplomatic relations between Siam & Russia.
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Re: United Nations
By: guest78 Date: June 7, 2022, 7:00 pm
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[quote]Russia's UN ambassador walked out of a security council
meeting after the President of the European Council blamed the
Russian invasion of Ukraine for causing the global food crisis.
European Council chief Charles Michel said during the meeting in
New York that Russia was using food supplies as a 'stealth
missile' against the developing world forcing people into
poverty.
The Russian envoy Vasily Nebenzya has accused Mr Michel of
spreading lies.[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 7, 2022, 8:00 pm
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Stating the obvious (but doing nothing about it):
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-perpetual-israeli-occupation-root-133001124.html
[quote]GENEVA (AP) — Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s
top human rights body say tensions between Palestinians and
Israelis are underpinned by Israel's “perpetual occupation” of
Palestinian areas with no apparent intention of ending it.
...
The report's authors cited “credible” evidence that
“convincingly indicates that Israel has no intention of ending
the occupation” and has plans to ensure complete control of
Palestinian areas. Israel’s government, it added, has been
“acting to alter the demography through the maintenance of a
repressive environment for Palestinians and a favorable
environment for Israeli settlers.”
[/quote]
Of course Israel goes straight to the usual accusation (and even
employs Trumpist vocabulary):
[quote]Israel’s Foreign Ministry rejected the report as “part
and parcel of the witch hunt carried out by the Human Rights
Council against Israel.”
It called the report biased and one-sided and accused the
commission members of ignoring Palestinian violence, incitement
and antisemitism.[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: guest78 Date: July 15, 2022, 11:45 am
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Uncovering allegations of sexual harassment and corruption at
the United Nations - BBC Newsnight
[quote]For the first time, the UN says, "systems have been put
in place" to break allegations of a culture of fear at the
organisation "head on". [/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 28, 2022, 10:11 pm
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More of the same:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-us-decry-rights-monitors-202840488.html
[quote]Miloon Kothari was quoted in the media as questioning
Israel’s right to be a U.N. member state and alluding to a
“Jewish lobby.” The comments stoked longtime accusations by
Israel, the U.S. and others that the rights body is biased
against Israel.
Kothari, from India, is one of three members of the Commission
of Inquiry on occupied Palestinian territory, created by the
U.N.-backed Human Rights Council last year. The commission
quickly countered that his comments had been deliberately
misquoted.
The commission, headed by former U.N. human rights chief Navi
Pillay, was set up after the 11-day war last year between Israel
and the militant Hamas group in Gaza. The fighting killed at
least 261 people in Gaza and 14 people in Israel, according to
the U.N. rights office.
Israel’s policies in the Palestinian territories have long faced
international scrutiny. Last year, the prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court launched an investigation into
alleged Israeli crimes there, focusing on Israel’s repeated
military operations in Gaza and the expansion of Jewish
settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
The commission is the first to have an open-ended mandate from
the U.N. rights body, and critics say such permanent scrutiny
shows anti-Israel bias in the 47-member-state council.
Proponents support the commission as a way to keep tabs on
injustices faced by Palestinians under decades of Israeli rule.
In an interview published Monday by Mondoweiss, an online
publication critical of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians,
Kothari spoke about the commission’s work and mandate. He cited
a lack of cooperation from Israel’s government.
Asked about criticism by some governments, including that of
Canada, he replied that he was “very disheartened by the social
media that is controlled largely by — whether it’s the Jewish
lobby or it’s specific NGOs — a lot of money is being thrown
into trying to discredit us.”
The commission's role, Kothari said, was to look into
humanitarian law, human rights law, and criminal law. “On all
three counts, Israel is in systematic violation of all the
legislation,” he said.
“I would go as far as to raise the question as why are they even
a member of the United Nations, because they don’t respect — the
Israeli government does not respect — its own obligations as a
U.N. member state,” he added.[/quote]
None of the above should even be controversial. Certainly none
of it is nothing that is not already common knowledge. But of
course the reaction:
[quote]Keren Hajioff, a spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister
Yair Lapid, said the international community should be
“outraged” over Kothari's comments.
“His racist remarks about ‘the Jewish Lobby’ that controls the
media and his questioning Israel’s right to exist as a member of
the family of nations echo the darkest days of antisemitism,”
she said.[/quote]
Criticizing Jewish racism is anti-racism. Not criticizing Jewish
racism (and thus approving its continuation) is what would be
racist.
[quote]In a statement, the U.S. ambassador to the rights
council, Michele Taylor, and the State Department’s special
envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt,
called antisemitism and anti-Israel bias a “poisonous venom”
that has affected international discourse for too long —
including at U.N. institutions.
They said Kothari’s comments were “outrageous, inappropriate,
and corrosive" and echoed “age-old antisemitic tropes."[/quote]
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[quote]Taylor is Jewish
...
She serves as a board member, governance chair, and the guest
programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta Jewish Film Society, which
hosts the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival where she has introduced
films.[11][/quote]
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[quote]Lipstadt was born in New York City to a Jewish family
...
she also wrote a monthly column for The Jewish Spectator.
Lipstadt then received a research fellowship from the Vidal
Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
...
Lipstadt received the 1994 National Jewish Book Award.[/quote]
Why should non-Jews let Jews tell us how much criticism of Jews
is acceptable? That would be as flawed as "non-whites" letting
"whites" tell us how much criticism of "whites" is acceptable!
Thankfully many more commenters get it now:
[quote]Jewish lobby? AIPAC, at whose annual meeting, the
politicians from both U.S. parties line up to speak and bow
down. Israel is an apartheid state that allows the brutalization
of Palestinian people and the destruction of their land. Israel
is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has been for
years.[/quote]
[quote]Do not deny the facts. Enough is enough Mr. Kothari is
all right how long USA and other countries try to hide the
tyrinny and cruilty of Israiel. It is the digital world now
everything can easily be seen and judged.[/quote]
[quote]Kothari is 100% correct. Israel has violated every law of
humanity and if you call Jews out on their crimes, among the
worst in human history, they scream antisemitic. Israel is a
war criminal and is now officially charged.[/quote]
[quote]If anyone tells the truth regarding the crimes and
atrocities that Israel commits every single day, they are
accused of being anti-Semitic.[/quote]
[quote]Playing the Anti-Semite Card NO longer works!
AIPAC has BRIBED most US politicians to condone genocide
committed by the Israeli Regime![/quote]
[quote]The Russian and Ukrainian Jews who have no connection to
the land whatsoever and are not Semite's are kiIIng and stealing
land from the indigenous Palestinians people who are
Semite's.[/quote]
[quote]The Palestinian people are Semites, so in the strictest
sense, the not infrequent
Israeli slaughter of Palestinian women and children is Israeli
anti-Semitism. Also, both
Israelis and Jews very often make use of the concept of
anti-Semitism NOT as a shield, but as a weapon to discourage
legitimate criticism and engender self-censorship.[/quote]
etc.
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 3, 2022, 8:25 pm
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27 refugees were killed. 27 missiles should be fired at Spain by
the US. See how fast they stop killing refugees if that were
done.
"Inquiries", in contrast, will achieve nothing.
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 13, 2022, 4:26 pm
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HTML https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/10/un-refugee-agency-head-claims-strong-border-controls-are-racist/
[quote]UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has
claimed that governments enacting strong border controls to
prevent illegal immigrants from entering their countries are
doing so due to racism.
Grandi spoke at an event in Italy, stating that he was shocked
at the difference in European countries’ attitudes toward those
fleeing the conflict in Ukraine and migrants coming to Europe
from different parts of the world.
...
According to Grandi, countries that want to be tougher on
illegal immigration are motivated by racism, saying that “for
the others, the response is restrictive legislation, barbed
wire, naval blockades and pushbacks. This is racism. We have the
legal and moral duty to welcome [migrants].”
“The lesson of Ukraine is useful to understand how to respond to
the movement of those who have nothing. In only a few weeks some
seven million Ukrainians arrived in Europe, not just a few
boats,” he said.[/quote]
I agree. So what should be done to racists? What should be done
to those who ignore legal and moral duty? This is what the
entire conversation looks like at the moment:
False Left: "You are wrong."
Right: "I don't care."
False Left: (*confused about what to do next*)
To prevent more refugees dying, the conversation needs to look
like:
False Left: "You are wrong."
Right: "I don't care."
True Left:
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