UN Security Council is dodging the moral question

The UN Security Council are still mulling over a way forward on Syria. In the meantime 300 people have been killed there this week. The moral question still remains that the Geneva Convention is not being implemented there.

The ambush and subsequent death of Chief of the Red Cross of Idlib area of Syria, Dr Abed Razq Jebairo, marks a sinister turn in the events of the Syrian Revolution. It is not likely given the call by the head of the Syrian Free Army for the implementation of Geneva Convention safety zones that his forces would have accomplished such an act of war violation. It therefore falls on the supporters of the Assad regime to take a long hard look at the direction they are moving towards in a country where the absence of the protection of the Red Cross Community exists. Such an event must also be considered very seriously by the international community because their commitment to the Geneva Convention is a stake here. If they fail to come to the aid of innocent civilians killed by this Regime, they are saying that International Law is of no importance. They are also saying that short term political goals of security, wealth and vested interests are more important than peoples lives. It is little wonder that almost every state in the world is experiencing unrest from it's people because current reigning politicians are failing to address principles enshrined in the Charter of Human Rights. It is no longer good enough for politicians just to caretake their own interests. While in power, they must seek ways of addressing the serious problems effecting their people and then try to solve them. Where a conclave of tyranny exists, the spirit of democracy in countries where representatives are elected, can not give the excuse that Human Rights of All is not their responsiblity. Nor can they say that the Geneva Convention is only for one country or one race, but it should be for all people where ever they live on this increasingly failing planet. For a politician to renage on this principle is to betray humanity.

Therefore when it comes to the UN Security council it can not ignore the violations of the Red Cross which amounts to gross war crimes. If they don't view this in that light then they are failing the Geneva Convention's protection of civilians and they are demeaning it to the status of a scrap of paper. It is little wonder that the people of the World are on mass rejecting the stewardship of their Leaders who seem incapable of supporting their aspirations.

It is also not surprising that the Syrian populace have begun a campaign to have the right to self defense in the absence of Geneva Convention Common Law being implemented by their Government or anyone else for that matter. However if the international Community orchestrates the abandonment of the Syrian people in favour of power politics their leaders are sowing the seeds of their own demise because in underestimating the moral code of the common populace they are sealing the fate of their own destruction.

Better then to uphold the Geneva Convention in ALL cirumstances than make it a scrap of paper.