It’s Dark Now There was a time when ‘it’s not dark yet” seemed apposite, suitably pessimistic for that time but with a ray of hope. But now night is falling fast. In the wake of the Nazi holocaust no one offered excuses for them no exceptions were made. International organisations were set up to ensure that international laws were upheld. War criminals would be prosecuted without exception and states committing genocide would be sanctioned. But that was then. Now an exception is made for one state that has broken international law for decades without sanction and has committed plausible genocide, it’s leaders now identified as war criminals. Now, as darkness falls, even with unanimity between all international organisations and all aid agencies, it is those organisations and those agencies who are vilified, demonised, denounced and threatened not the state accused, not the perpetrators. They are excused. The most powerful of nations are on their side ...
