Watching Israel bombing schools and depot in Gaza killing thousands of innocent Palestinians among them many children and women made me realize again that how worthless a human life can become at times…and how pragmatic Darwin's hundreds of year old 'survival of the fittest' theory still is. It seems only thing which matters today is 'Power'. And struggle to have and later keep it i am afraid might take us back into stone age. It's hight time we take notice of world event little more seriously and start raising voices against the attrocities and crime committed by the powerful or powerhungry countries and groups.
To achieve our goal of peace and freedom so called civilized humans of the world had created an unified body called United Nations more than half a century ago. They tried to project it as a world's governing body. But kept a private club called security council which vetos all the powers of UN and help manupulate and carry the personal agendas of club members. And when there is no personal agendas involved, they just keep the conflict alive for the future benefits as it is happenning in Gaza, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Srilanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan and in many other countries around the world.
What justification UN can ever give for massacre, rape and pillage in Haiti and Bosnia which happened not surprisingly in the presence of UN’s blue berets? In the name of peacemaking and peacekeeping UN has committed more attrocities and crime than anyone else . Shouldn't we think about reorganising or to the certain extent recreating UN now, before it is too too late? Or should we just let it get abolished??? But before we come to any conclusion lets have a look into some statistics...
the second world war almost 150 major conflicts have taken place in the world. Among them 130 have been fought in developing world. Since the 1950s, more wars have started than have stopped. By the end of 2008, wars had been running in Afghanistan for 30 years, Angola for 43, Liberia for 19, Somalia for 20, Sri Lanka for 25, Sudan for 25 and congo for 14 years. The global case-load of refugees and displaced persons is growing at alarming speed. The number of refugees from armed conflicts worldwide increased from 2.4 million in 1974 to more than 40 million today as per the UNICEF’s report. Report notices that another 30 million people displaced within their own countries. Children and women make up an estimated 80 per cent of displaced populations. And what has UN been doing in the meantime...almost nothing. It did deployed its blue berets in many parts of the world but didn't give them mandate to act. As per the mandate blue berets are not deployed to fight but to keep peace. There are hundreds of procedures involved before a blue beret's soldier decides to raise his gun...even if he has to do it for self defence. So in 60 years blue berets did nothing, just stood by their post, guns loaded but facing down...
Now lets try to remember again the preamble to the United Nations Charter. There are mainly four –
* To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
* To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
* To establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
* To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Now tell me honestly could UN live up to its charter ever? Hasn't it just been fooling around so far? Therefor I ask again, isn't it the right time to pause and think...think for the alternatives.
The UN came into being at a time when the world was without an Internet and a global economy had yet to emerge. The immediacy that is common place today did not exist when the UN was founded. Much of the activities of the UN were not known to most of the world. This is why in the first 40 years sanctions by oppressive governments were largely ignored. Doesn't UN needs to be updated as per the passings of time?
Although there has not been a world war since the founding of the UN there have been quite a number of wars, whether it is Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq or Israel. All happened in the very presence of UN which kept acting impotent.
On the second mission statement; "...to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights..." this has not been affected by the UN in the least. Yes, the UN affirms human rights but abuse of human rights are as prevalent as ever. A good example was the "Food For Oil" scam perpetrated on the world. Secondly, can anyone seriously suggest that the People's Republic of China, Ghana and the Republic of Congo adheres to the same principles of human rights as Belgium, Italy and United Kingdom do? Even though the principles of human rights should be universally attainable and understandable, most countries in the world couldn't care less about it. The result is that nothing meaningful gets accomplished in this area...
The third point, "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other source of international law can be maintained." which with exceptions, has also been a miserable failure. Most countries ignore this when convenient and embrace it when convenient. The result being a gigantic gap in credibility...and pathetic failure of UN's approach towards the solution...
So again, what's the alternative (remedies)? I will say, "abolish the security council". We have got to abolish this elite club to bring equality of share in UN and prove Mr. Darwin wrong at least in social spectrum. This will solve all the problems stright away. Just let it be a world governing body which includes representatives of all the countries with equal power and voice. Let all the issues get debated and voted by all...
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