January 5, 2020
On Extrajudicial Executions
The unilateral decision of someone — a person or a state entity — to take the life of one or more human beings, followed by the act itself, is called murder. Full stop.
And yes, it ought to be punished following a trial.
It does not matter who the perpetrator is, and it does not matter who the victim is.
It does not matter what motive is invoked.
It does not matter what atrocities the killed person or persons are supposed to have committed.
It does not even matter whether the killed persons had committed crimes against humanity or had systematically violated human rights.
To a monstrosity one CANNOT answer with another monstrosity! To barbarism you cannot answer with barbarism… unless you are a barbarian.
In a world where wars and “revolutions” are launched for the defence of “human rights” and of “democracy”, men can no longer be killed in violation of the most fundamental human rights, in violation of the right to a fair trial.
At least not by those who pose as defenders of human rights and of democracy.
That is the reason why the civilised world instituted, from the year 2002, the International Criminal Court, with its seat at The Hague. And they gave the Court the right and the power to try and to punish the natural persons guilty of committing particularly grave offences that harm the interests of the international community as a whole.
An international criminal tribunal established earlier to investigate the war crimes of the former Yugoslavia demonstrated that it can do justice, despite propaganda and against the interests of the great powers. Although it convicted more than 90 persons guilty of war crimes, the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague concluded that the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević was NOT responsible for the war crimes committed in Bosnia. And it acquitted him. Posthumously — for he was imprisoned by the victors of the war in Yugoslavia. Until the end of his life.
Yes. Justice has no political colour.
Or it ought not to have one!
Perhaps that is precisely the reason why “the founding treaty was neither signed nor ratified by several important countries such as the United States, Russia, China, Israel and Iraq. In fact, the United States and Israel initially signed the treaty but later announced that they were withdrawing their signature.”
Perhaps, before the Court, Soleimani would have been acquitted of the accusations brought against him. Or perhaps not.
We shall never know, for his “death sentence” was passed by certain Generals and has already been carried out.
Perhaps those states which did not sign the Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court ought to give up their hypocrisy and admit that the only engines of their cynical actions are interests. Local interests, global interests, but only interests! Not principles. Not values.
Or, until then, perhaps Romania will no longer accept lessons in democracy and/or human rights from states that have explicitly refused the rule of law and of human rights at world level. At least then, those who are sentenced in Romania to heavy years of imprisonment (or even killed) for “terrorism” or “merely” “corruption” will have the status they deserve: that of political convicts.
What is clear is that it can no longer go on like this!
Or that the world goes badly, as badly as it goes.
What is clear is that the world must at least give up hypocrisy, if it cannot give up cynicism!
PS: I ask those who applauded the killing of Soleimani to stop speaking of “human rights” and of abuses in the justice system. You do not know why? You do not understand the connection between the two subjects? And are you sincere when you say what you say? It would be time wasted to insist on explaining it to you. Go and bow down to your idols. But please, stop mentioning “an independent judiciary” and “human rights”.
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