By Tun Kyaw Nyein
19 December 2019
At the Hague last week we witnessed powerful actors with hidden agendas using ICJ as a mechanism to further their strategic aims. It illustrates a point that many believe to be true. That contemporary human rights practice is tainted by several pathologies.
Firstly, we have the international human rights community, a global network of NGOs and media supported by international financiers ganging up against a young democratic government in Myanmar led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, which is struggling to establish democracy against great odds. But democracy be damned, the human rightists as a group see nation-states such as Myanmar as a pathology and instead aim for a utopian idea of world government run nominally under the umbrella of entities such as the UN or EU. However, in this neoliberal world, real power is and will be in the hands of oligarchs aspiring to shepherd the world’s masses with the aid of NGOs -they fund functioning as enforcers; read HRW, Amnesty International, Fortify Rights etc. as neoliberal Brown Shirts.
In totality this vast network operates as an international machinery of human rights now turned against Myanmar as an instrument of domination. This is a serious pathology but hardly the only one.
Here’s a second pathology. In the case brought against Myanmar at the ICJ, this western instrument of domination, again in the name of human rights was weaponized by the (OIC) a conglomeration of Islamic states, whose member states in the main are antipathetic to the very values of human rights. Their objective is to support a migrant Islamic minority laying claim on the Arakan lands in Myanmar.Check out my FB postings
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