Tutu wants to be relevant. He had his 15 minutes long ago.
I’m not sticking up for the Burmese government, but how are they worse than about 40 or 50 other brutal governments around the world? How are they worse than Zimbabwe, for instance, or Sudan?
The explanation seems to be is that they are not, for some reason, politically correct. Therefore, they are a “junta.” I don’t remember that Fidel Castro was ever a “junta,” although he always wore uniform.
Hypocrites. Desmond Tutu would be more useful turning his attention to the corruption and social ills of South Africa.
Oh, good... so now when there’s a tornado in Oklahoma, and Russia, Iran, and China want to send spies to “aid” us, we’ll be prosecuted in the world courts for refusing them. How nice.
This business of using international courts to prosecute crimes of national leaders is a very dangerous precedent. The U.S. should never support such activity.
“The strategy is to raise the bar for the consequences of not allowing humanitarian intervention by introducing the threat of prosecution for crimes against humanity.....”
.....except for North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and all other nations that promise to viciously denounce the USA.
I have a better idea. Let’s bomb the government’s shiny new capital city to smithereens. Today. Nobody lives or works there except the government leaders and their loyal partners in crime. Wipe out their city and those of them that are still alive will be too busy tending their wounded fellow monsters and trying to find food and shelter, to bother trying to block aid workers. Enough with the stupid bureaucratic maneuvers already.
1. I bet the generals are shivering in their boots about the thought that international law will be imposed against them.
2. It sounds like Tutu wants Western nations to invade the sovereign nation of Burma. That nasty little war monger!
3. Maybe the generals don’t want UN aid workers because they think that those workers will steal the supplies and rape the women and children. After all, that’s what they do in Africa.
Yeah.... Right ......... That would be like suing the ChiComs for poisoning our food and medicine. Plus the ChiComs with veto power are the main backers of of these guys.
Myanmar agrees to "all" cyclone aid workers
Either the threat of possible prosecution scared them, or the junta was bribed. I'd like to know which it was.