Genocide in Gaza
THE motto of the Israeli Defence (IDF), according to its website, is: “Defence is our mission, security is our goal.”One wonders what the connotations of the original in Hebrew are.…
Complicity in genocide
INTERNATIONAL courts often fail to convict a genocidal actor because legal precedents have read an extremely narrow and heightened intent requirement in the crime of genocide. Yet, the intent requirement…
Criminal silence over genocide
More than two million besieged people are facing the catastrophe of famine with barely any food trickling in. But the international community has failed to stop the worst genocide in…
Israel bent on genocide
Only the naïve could have imagined that Israel would continue the truce that allowed the exchange of some of the Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. As soon as the week-long…
The unforgiveable genocide in Gaza
Recently, while in the sacred city of Makkah, I watched in horror as an inconceivable tragedy unfolded on TV screens and social media sites. As a mother, the agony of…
World watches a genocide in silence
Injustice, tyranny, torture, oppression, repression, fascism, and such other lethal implements, when perpetrated, do not carry the face of the inflictors, but they symbolize a mindset which is gruesome in…
Another genocide
A major problem for Biden’s national security team has been trying to match Biden’s random and spontaneous policy statements toward Ukraine. It typically takes his administration a week or two…
Genocide of Rohingya Muslims
Persecution of the poor and marginalised Rohingya Muslims at the hands of Buddhist majority in Myanmar has a long history, but since 2012, they are victims of the state-backed genocide.…
Genocide of TVs
t was a classic case of killing the messenger because they didn’t like the message. The messenger was the television sets that belonged to Indians in India and the message…
Defending genocide
On December 9, the world marked the anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: a covenant signed in the wake of the Holocaust not only to punish…
