Week 7- Blogpost

United Nations, successor of the League of Nations gave hope to people that it will be able to bring peace and stability as the world was still recovering from the debris of and shock of WW2. To me United Nations seems like place to vent for Global leaders; where they only share their troubles with no promised solutions.

United Nations has failed several times across the world because its hands are tied on VETO powers of elite nations and it is dependent on the funds from the elite nations. Ever since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, the Palestinians have been fighting against what UN investigator Richard Falk described as “Ethnic Cleansing”. Since then, so many Palestinians have been killed and thrown away from their homeland. No matter how many times, UN Security Council had tried to impose charges on Isreal for their immoral acts, the USA has always vetoed it.

Then the civil war in Syria, where UN tried to pass several resolutions but to address the conflicts, but Russia utilised its veto power at least a dozen times to protect its ally Assad. Since 2011 so many people have been killed in Syria, including children, famine has grappled everyone. Over 6.3 million people have been pushed out of the country and they form nearly one-third of the global refugee population. In recent years the Rohingya crisis of 2017; where Myanmar launched major military operation to hunt and kill the Rohingya minority tribe. China stood behind Myanmar by blocking efforts for the Rohingya in the UN Security Council.

I do not know if the world would be a better place without a UN. The United Nations alone cannot fight against the evil of the worlds. Right now the world is in sheer loss of humanity. I read a novel by William Golding “Lord of the Flies”, the moral of the story was that weak are always molested by the mighty and human beings are the most dangerous species of the world because they kill for greed. The UN needs a structural reform, where it can disregard the vetoes and stand for the oppressed.