Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar called for an end to the genocide in Gaza in order to fulfill our responsibility to humanity, during her address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
“For the sake of future generations, to fulfill our responsibility as human beings, to ensure that we are on the right side of history, we must do the right thing. We did not stop the Holocaust. We did not stop the genocide in Rwanda. We did not stop the genocide in Srebrenica. We must stop the genocide in Gaza. There are no more excuses,” Pirc Musar said.
She said the Genocide Convention now risks becoming a “relic of the past,” stressing that some states are presenting the International Criminal Court with “the greatest challenge ever,” citing the “sanctions” and “intimidation” its judges and prosecutors face.
“It is as if the states that sanction them want to protect alleged perpetrators rather than face the truth and help bring justice,” she added.
She also asked how she would explain to her children that in the “new normal” the strong can take what they want, kill with impunity, wage wars and trample on international law just because they can.
“The Security Council, conceived as the very pillar of collective security, fails to meet the expectations of the world,” Pirc Musar pointed out, calling for the reform of the Security Council.
Emphasizing the need to fight for human dignity, she also referred to the fact that hunger is still used as a weapon.
“Every day we receive reports of women and children starving because they are labeled as legitimate targets, as enemies. How cruel is that, how inhumane? Ladies and gentlemen, we must not allow this to happen again,” she emphasized.
She reminded that generations will be judged by how we treat the planet and people, saying that one must not give in to a world ruled only by force.
“If we, the leaders of this planet, can offer nothing but terror, conflict, pollution, fear, inequality and war to eight billion people, then we must face the truth: we are complicit in crimes against our civilization and our planet,” concluded Pirc Musar, AA writes.
