united nations - the perversion of a good intention

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United Nations: The

Perversion of a GoodIntention

NEWS JUNKIE POST

Sep 14, 2013

Once upon a time, the United Nations was held up as a beacon of moral authority and hope

for world peace. That was long before the UN formally became a criminal organization.

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on September 6, 2013, in the Hasan Nuhanovic case, thatUN personnel called Dutchbat, under the authority of the Dutch State, have violated the

rights of three Bosnian Muslims to life and protection from inhuman treatment and must

make reparations for this crime.
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The UN has fallen quite short of the original vision of Eleanor Roosevelt and others to

create a forum in which disputes between countries might be peacefully resolved. Back

when the UN was created, the West was gasping from the mass slaughter of Europeans intwo World Wars; furthermore, while the colonial powers were preoccupied with each other,

much of the world had seized the opportunity to gain independence. This should never

happen again, everyone agreed, but instead of a body that enforces international lawequally for all nations, we got the Security Council: an elite group with veto power made

up of those countries that had committed the most violations against the principles of the

UN Charter.
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One could say that the UN has succeeded in its mission, if this is defined as being a project

to focus the world powers aggression on weaker countries, rather than directly engagingeach other in costly wars. In effect, the UN functions as an alliance of criminals who have

made peace with each other so as to reduce the bloodshed among themselves. The Security

Council enforces the UN Charter only when an invasion is inconvenient for one or more of

its members. For example, the UN has defended Kuwait but not Panama from invasion.Victims, including Somalia, Iraq and Libya, and more recently, Syria and Iran, are softened

up for invasions by UN Resolutions for oil embargoes, no-fly zones, and the like. After theinvasions, the victims are held subjugated by a peacekeeping force. This corrupt andcorruptingbranch of the UN, entirely at the service of imperialism, is also itsfastest-

growing.
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Over the last 20 years or so of UN peacekeeping, the crimes of UN soldiers have

included gunrunning, tradingfood for sex,choleracontamination, human trafficking,

child prostitution,rape, and murders of all sorts. What makes UN peacekeeping soattractive to psychopaths is that it gives them complete license to commit the most

egregious crimes. The worst the UN ever does is return them to their home countries, which

do not prosecute them because of UN immunity. Indeed, when these soldiers are returnedhome, they are usually reincorporated into their countrys armed forces.
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The Nuhanovic case represents the first instance of UN personnel being found guilty of a

crime in a civil court. The reason it took this case to make a chink in the armor of UNimmunity is because the involvement of the Dutch State was incontrovertible, and contrary

to the status of many other countries that contribute peacekeeping forces to the UN, in

Holland there is still the rule of law. Furthermore, the criminal behavior in this instance was

as blatant as it was horrific.
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The heart of the Nuhanovic case was whether the Dutch State could be held responsible for

the crimes of its nationals while they served as UN personnel. Indeed, on the first pass, a

Hague District Court ruled on September 10, 2008 that Dutchbats conduct was exclusively

the responsibility of the UN. Subsequently the Hague Court of Appeal reasoned, inrulingson July 5, 2011 and June 26, 2012 that responsibility of the Dutch State did not exclude

responsibility of the UN. The Dutch Supreme Court upheld this ruling one year later. In all,

it took 18 years for justice to be served.
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Hasan Nuhanovic was an interpreter for the UN Military Observers in Srebrenica, whose

father, mother, and younger brother were put out of a safe UN compound in summer 1995to be taken away and murdered by the Bosnian-Serb army or related paramilitary groups.

One day before Nuhanovics family was put out to slaughter, the Dutch Defense Minister

directly ordered the Dutchbat commander to save whatever can be saved. The Dutchbatcommander then made a deal with Ratko Mladic, better known as the butcher of Bosnia,

to evacuate 29 local UN personnel together with Dutchbat; in return, 32,000 BosnianMuslim refugees, who had sought safety inside and just outside of the UN compound,

would be abandoned to the genocidal Bosnian Serb army. That fateful meeting wasattended by none other than Mr. Nuhanovics father, Ibro. Thus Hassan Nuhanovic had

every reason to fear for his family. He pleaded with the UN to include in the list of local

UN personnel his family, and especially his younger brother, a minor who would certainly

be killed by the Bosnian Serb army for being a Muslim male of military age.
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For two days, Bosnian Muslim women and children were separated from the men, and with

the acquiescence of the UN, removed around the clock by the busloads. Many of the men

were tortured and divested of their personal possessions and identity papers at a place

called the White House, less than a quarter mile from the UN compound. Most of themen of military age, estimated to have numbered about 7,000, were murdered in mass

executions. Though it is not possible to check the veracity of some reports which claim that

the UN actually assisted in the roundup of the men, it is clear that the torture and even someof the killing occurred within earshot of the UN. It is in this context that Dutchbat ordered

Nuhanovics father Ibro, his mother Nasiha, and his brother Muhamed to leave the UNcompound on the evening of July 13, 1995. In a final twist of pure evil, at the last minuteDutchbat offered protection to Ibro but not to his wife and teenage son. He refused and

went to his death together with them. These are the circumstances that led the Supreme

Court to uphold the ruling that the Dutch State was responsible for the deaths of Ibro and

Muhamed Nuhanovic.
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It is notable that the court did not hold the state responsible for the death of Nuhanovicsmother Nasiha. This was presumably because the Serbian Muslim women were not

considered to be at risk of being killedalthough tales of rapes by the Serb army were

rampant. Therefore, even with the Nuhanovic case as a precedent, subsequent court casesagainst the UN will not be easy: not even those about the failure of the UN to provide

safety to Serbian Muslim refugees. The thousands of Bosnian Muslims who still await

justice, for example, will have to prove that their loved ones were not the first to be killed,but among those who were slaughtered after the UN became aware of the genocide. All

other cases, at the least, will require proof that a state also had effective control of the UN

troops during a crime.
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Regrettably, the UN is still not directly liable for its many crimes. Still, the ruling in the

Nuhanovic case, that a state is responsible for its participation in UN crimes, offers the

promise of at least some deterrence to criminals who seek to practice their atrocities underUN protection. Promising targets for such deterrence include the Brazilian and Argentinian

peacekeepers whomassacredAristide supporters in Haiti, with the full knowledge of

their governments.

Editors Note: Photographs one, two, three, four, five, six and ten byUni ted Nations.

Photograph sevenSurian Soosay.

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