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Security Council must be abolished

RE: U.N. marks death camp liberation

"With calls of `never again,' the United Nations General Assembly
commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death
camps ..." — this is sheer hypocrisy.

The U.N. could have prevented the genocide of more than 800,000 people
in Rwanda. (The U.N. was alerted well in advance of the planned
massive killings of the minority Tutsis.) In the case of Bosnia, the
U.N. not only failed at preventing the genocide of more than 200,000
Bosnians, but played a part in guaranteeing it.

The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council consistently
rejected calls by the tremendous majority of the U.N. General Assembly
to allow the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina to defend its people
from genocide. Actually, this stance by the U.N. Security Council went
totally against its own U.N. article 51 which gives every U.N. member
state the right to self-defence. Bosnia, which was a sovereign U.N.
member state, was denied that right.

If the U.N. is to play an effective role in preventing current and
future crimes against humanity then it has to be radically reformed.

The reform is simple — the U.N. Security Council must be abolished, so
that the U.N. is not controlled by the hegemonic powers of the five
permanent member nations.

All paramount power should be accorded to the U.N. General Assembly so
that the U.N. can address the issues and take the appropriate and
effective action by a more or less global consensus.

Zeshan Shahbaz

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