The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday July 25th, 2022
International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. This brilliant, committed and peculiarly dedicated creature took years to come up with what would, in time, become a word so horrifying as to transfix judges of international law. The amalgam word of genocide stalks the conscience of state leaders, commanders and politicians, an insidious reminder of the inner prejudice that becomes a murderous plan, a design, a means of ridding one of enemies and counterparts.
Given the nature of international institutions, often weak and onerously bureaucratic, there are other aspects to the system of holding the genocidaire-types to account: inadvertent immunity for the perpetrators; the obstructions and impediments of governments; and the reluctance of even using the term to describe abuses.
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My name #poem by Amir Khatib
“Finally they were able to replace my idle hand with a solid iron hand,
I can now
To catch and kill the devil,
He does not expect me to do this, but a human,
I can punch Mustafa Al-Kazemi and break his jaw,
To stop lying and ranting about patriotism”
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Sceptic feathers #41 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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