"We cannot allow human beings to be treated the way they are being treated. The signs of the '30s are resurfacing," Dieng, a Senegalese lawyer, told a media briefing in Geneva. He cited damage done by "powerful states" pulling out of international commitments, and by anti-immigrant politicians in Hungary and Italy. But he also accused left-wingers of playing cynical political games instead of robustly pushing back against the far right. His tenure as the UN genocide envoy since 2012 has coincided with a rash of Middle East and African wars and refugee crises, and UN genocide inquiries in Iraq and Myanmar.

Source: bd News24 May 01, 2019 16:07 UTC