My Take | The world is fighting back against a real genocide
- Now we know how racial mass murders are committed by watching one live on our computer and TV screens
We live in an upside down world. Countries that we have long been told are “rogue states” – and groups that have been branded as “terrorist” – are the ones currently committed to carrying out the international obligation and “responsibility to protect” an entire people against a genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Countries that have sanctioned, invaded and destabilised others – at the cost of millions of lives – to uphold “the rules-based international order” and lectured others on human rights, freedom and democracy are the ones committing or aiding and abetting a genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
For decades, from a moral high ground, the international media – from major news networks to the biggest film studios – have taught the world the horrors of the Holocaust and other genocides.
Now, with some courageous exceptions, they are aiding and abetting a genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, justifying and excusing them, and worst of all, helping to demonise the victims and turn them into something less than human.
When you take off their sanctimonious masks, it’s just moral depravity and cowardice for all to see.
However, genocides are a lot more difficult to commit in a world that runs on 24/7 news.