It should also haunt the Commonwealth, which is none of the above. In 2013, on behalf of all member states, the Queen signed a Commonwealth charter whose chapters on democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression the current Rwandan regime flagrantly defies. Yet last year in London,, which boasts of all these values, Commonwealth leaders accepted an offer from Kagame to host its next summit in 2020, making him the chair-in-office for the following two years. In Trinidad in 2009 the UK and Australia, worried about human rights abuses in Sri Lanka under the Rajapakse government, managed to postpone a Sri Lanka summit, subsequently waved through in Perth in 2011 by David Cameron and other leaders. Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian January 20, 2019 18:11 UTC