“No longer can heads of State, and other actors, be sure that they can commit atrocious violations and get away with it,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in Geneva , announcing that she had written a letter “in the strongest terms” to Laurent Gbagbo, who insists that he won November’s run-off elections despite international recognition of opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as the clear victor.
The Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay's letter to President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast (Cote De Ivoire) is a wake up call to regimes that use state power to abuse citizens. She was right in observing that eads of State who indulge in such atrocities will no more go unheeded and the International Justice mechanism will render necessary justice.
After the ICTR, rulers every where must keep in mind that ethnic cleansing and crimes against women are monstrosities that the International Community will no more tolerate. Not with standing the monetary or political compulsions, nations must unite in such common cause to eradicate the malaise of innocents being victimized for political ends.
Voices big and small, individually and as nations, must unite to bring strictures on countries that indulge in such practices and justice to the victims of such crimes.
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