When it comes to the Morrison Government and war crimes, there’s one rule for Israel and another for everyone else, it seems. Peter Wicks reports.
I WANT YOU to imagine a scenario; it’s a fictitious one, but a relevant one.
I want you to imagine that the Chinese Government has been investigated by the International Criminal Court and found to have committed horrendous war crimes, which include the illegal murder of women and children, and multiple acts of torture. Seriously heinous international crimes that need to be prosecuted.
Then I want you to imagine that a few years ago after the investigation was completed, and the war criminals were to be brought before the International Criminal Court and prosecuted, that then-Senator Sam Dastyari had made an official submission to the International Criminal Court that human rights violators from China should be exempt from any prosecution on the basis of a jurisdictional claim that is not recognised by the overwhelming majority of nations, just a couple of China’s close allies.
Imagine the outcry. Imagine the headlines: “Shanghai Sam supports torture” — and worse.
Imagine the media specials on Chinese influence, and how the slippery slope of political donations and favours have reached the bottom of the barrel, to the extent where war crimes and torture are now supported.
Read this offensive, contemptuous article in Independent Australia.