Life Sucks, And Then You Die
If you’re lucky you don’t get tortured first. United Nations does something relatively useful. It reports widespread misery, starvation, imprisonment, torture and death in North Korea. It isn’t exactly news. Vitit Muntarbhorn tells the UN Human Rights Council someone should do something about it. Unclear who or what he has in mind. Reuters:
“There are widespread, systematic and reprehensible human rights violations of a long-standing and insidious nature which demand international attention and commitments nationally and internationally to help improve the situation,” he said.
His remarks appeared largely addressed to the developing country majority on the 47-nation Council which has generally sought to avoid serious formal condemnations of governments of non-Western nations for rights abuses.
I don’t know what he expects this crowd to do. Deutsche Presse-Agentur suggests Muntarbhorn was mainly concerned with doing something about food shortages and downplays the other stuff which I’m guessing, maybe uncharitably, is how any response is likely to skew.
Her’s an idea. Maybe the UNHRC can condemn the provocations of the aggressor for its undisguised military threats and adventurism. Something like that.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:02 pm on Monday, March 16, 2009
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