Nov 7, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Brussels.
The
European Union has a role to play in helping end violence in the world, Luis
Moreno Ocampo, former Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
(ICC), said at a press conference today.
“We need a lot from the European Union, the EU was created with an idea to end violence in Europe, but we need something else. Not just ending violence in Europe, but also helping end violence in the world,” Ocampo said.
“2023 is a
year of genocide. We say ‘never again,’ but in 2023 there is a genocide in
Darfur, that has been ongoing for the latest 20 years, there is a genocide in
Ethiopia, there was a genocide in Nagorno Karabakh, there is a genocide coming
against Armenia, there is a genocide being committed by HAMAS against Israelis
in Israel, and there is a genocide being committed by Israelis against
Palestinians, by blockading two million people,” he noted.
“This is
the world today and we are going in the wrong direction, in particular because
today Europe is also buying weapons preparing for a permanent war. So, we are
investing billions in war and nothing in peace. I think that should be
transforming, and the European Parliament has a role to play,” he said.
Ocampo
noted that what happened in Nagorno Karabakh, the blockade of the Lachin
corridor was a form of genocide. “Under the Genocide Convention, one form of
genocide is creation of conditions to destroy a group,” he said.
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