Not to be or R2P,

So what’s the Dilemma?

when doing right

makes economies tremor.

 

When “Never Again”

is reasoned away,

no matter to those

who don’t have a say.

 

The panga and bomb

the fist and the gun,

reign over a song

too often heard sung.

 

The pen and the suit

the fine things of State,

the willing recruit

to the Profits of Hate.

 

The Corpses and Dust

left to rot and to blow,

in the Scales of The Just

like the Chaff that won’t Sow.

 

I visited the town of Račak in Kosovo shortly after the massacre which occurred there in 1999 when Albanians were executed by Serb Police Units. This action as many others in Kosovo heavily influenced the adoption of R2P by The UN General Assembly in 2005. Since that time it has been frequently disregarded, dismissed and manipulated by Council members acting in their own self-interest.