From: Chukwudi Nweje
Two civil society groups, the Inter Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law and the Inter Justice and Human Rights Program, have both condemned the United Nations (UN), saying the world body has failed the world and allowed those they referred to as “sit-tight leaders and regime atrocities/heinous crimes committers from Africa” to fester
The groups said the world body has continued to allow these sit-tight leaders to attend and address the UN General Assembly as well as to remain in office.
The two civil society organisations said the UN had “wbbled and fumbled deeper instead of rising to its global duties and challenges, and has allowed the world to slip back into the cave,” and added that ‘the UN has constituted itself into a globally laughing stock that would make the founding fathers of the global body and icons of peace to shed uncontrollable tears in their hallowed graves.”
In a press release jointly issued by Board Chairman Intersociety, Emeka Umeagbalasi, and Head, Inter Justice & Human Rights Program, Ndidiamaka Bernard, the groups said this in relation to the on-going United Nations General Assembly of Heads of State and Governments, in New York.
The joint statement read in part, “Today, UN has not only failed woefully, but also darkened the future of the succeeded and succeeding generations. In the 2nd World War (1939-1945), 35million civilians including women and children and 15million combatants were killed. Since 1945 when UN took over the world leadership, the number of people killed, maimed, tortured, disappeared, starved, impoverished and displaced is too shocking, alarming and deafening to mention. Those killed in the post World War 11 armed conflict violence and peacetime violence has alarmingly quadrupled with world’s most populated continents of Asia, Africa and old Eastern Europe experiencing widespread violence or threats of same.
“Today, under the watchful eyes of the United Nations, the world is not only terminally sick and endangered but also haunted by numerous monsters of uncontrollable proportions such as mental militarisation ( reckless and widespread use of violence to solve social problems), physical militarisation, insecurity, under-development, hunger, mass poverty, illiteracy, institutional grafts, regime failure and collapse; threats of nuclear holocaust, ethno-religious radicalism, threats of genocide and others forms of complex humanitarian crises; to name but a few.
“As a matter of fact, the UN is leading the entire world back to the Hobbesian era where human lives and human living were short, nasty, brutish, cannibalistic and Ape jungle. The colossal failure of the present world body has led to spiral increases in municipal governments’ aggressions and violence against their populations as well as their breaches of municipal compatible laws and international law and order. The level of municipal impunity has risen to an apogee. Licit and illicit arms trade and shipment to the Southern world is uncontrollably alarming.”