QUOTATION # 46.

[ON DISAPPEARANCES].

“The growing willingness of states to launch extra-territorial operations is not simply a matter of unscrupulous leaders……..

It reflects a more general loss of respect for international law and for the much-battered, much-lamented “global rules-based order”.

It is one, dire manifestation of the many negative consequences of the ongoing collapse of the postwar, collective UN security system, to which irresponsible populist-nationalists……are actively contributing.”

DANCER: Joseph Kola, metal, 47 x 34 cm, 2006; signed. Private collection.

 

“……..disappearance(s) shows what can happen when the primacy of the law breaks down, and far from fighting to restore it, democratically elected leaders and governments connive in, or turn a blind eye to, the dictators and despots who are responsible.

Similarly blatant outrages are occurring every day, and every day go unpunished.

…. ( there’s a) need to wake up – and stand up.

Amid the tortured screams of the disappeared, having a quiet word is not enough.”

–   SIMON TISDALL

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