UN Human Rights chief: Israeli attacks on Gaza may constitute war crimes 1 minute read
Geneva, May 27 (EFE).- Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza may constitute war crimes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Thursday.
The strikes, which killed 242 Palestinians and displaced 74,000 people, “raise serious concerns of Israel’s compliance with the principles of distinction and proportionality,” she said.
“If found to be indiscriminate and disproportionate in their impact on civilians and civilian objects, such attacks may constitute war crimes,” Bachelet said during a Special Session of the Human Rights Council.
Israel’s retaliation to Hamas’ initial attack resulted in extensive civilian deaths and injuries, she said, as well as heavy damage to civilian buildings such as residential homes, medical facilities, international humanitarian organizations and media offices.
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KAMALIKA PIERIS
Sri Lanka has
been taking a defensive position in Geneva, from the first UNHRC resolution in
2012. Always explaining its actions
during and after the conflict, observed Neville Ladduwahetty. This is a flawed
strategy, he said. Instead, Sri Lanka should table a Resolution in the General
Assembly and seek redress.
Sri Lanka
should not have to keep going to the UNHRC to make its case, given that 10
years had now lapsed since the end of the war, said Sarath Amunugama in
Parliament. Its 10 years now since the end of the war. This joke must stop,” he
The U.S. and other [Western] countries are always touting themselves as experts on human rights and as beacons of democracy, and using this as a tool to pressure and harm countries that do not submit to them or which differ from them in their regime. This scenario has recurred many times in the history of the relations between China and the West. Lately, the Western countries have been exploiting the issues of Xinjiang [the northwestern region of China where the Uyghur population is concentrated] and Hong Kong as a new excuse [to do this], and have invented lies and fake news in order to regale the world with a new and ridiculous charade of smearing China s political reputation and arbitrarily interfering in its affairs. With deliberate malice, they also brought up the issue of cotton cultivation in Xinjiang and falsely accused China of [using the Uyghurs] as forced labor and of forcefully sterilizing them. They even accused China of genocide and claimed that its moves to improve