Etniske og religiøse spændinger stiger kloden over, siger FNs særlige overvåger mod folkedrab – “har vi da intet lært af Cambodja, Rwanda og Srebrenica”, spørger han og lægger til: Hvad blev der af løftet om “aldrig igen”.
GENEVA, 28 February 2013 (UN News Service): The number of situations around the world that clearly indicate a risk of mass atrocities (grusomheder i stor stil) has possibly never been higher, demanding urgent preventive action, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (folkedrab) said Thursday.
“We recognize the signs, we sound the alarm, but yet abuses (overgreb) continue to be committed and populations suffer the consequences,” Adama Dieng told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Addressing the 47-member body’s current session, Mr. Dieng said that genocide, unfortunately, is not a crime that has been relegated (henvist) to the past.
“Despite the tragedy of the Holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica and many other incidents of massive human rights violations, we still seem not to have learned our lesson,” he stated.
“In the face of the atrocities that are being committed still today, and our failure to prevent or halt their escalation, we must conclude that we have failed to fulfil our promise of ‘never again’.”
At a summit of world leaders in 2005, Member States adopted the principle of the responsibility to protect, sometimes known as ‘R2P.’
The principle holds countries responsible for shielding their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing (udrensning), and related crimes against humanity and requires the international community to step in if this obligation is not met.
In his role as Special Adviser, Mr. Dieng acts as a catalyst to raise awareness of the causes and dynamics of genocide, to alert relevant actors where there is a risk of genocide, and to advocate and mobilize for appropriate action.
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