The daylight lynching of Ethiopia by the dirty hired guns of the UN HRC, exposed!

 BY ALMARIAM

PART ONE

In the folklore of the American wild, Wild West, cattle barons and mine owners would pay hired guns to come around and “take care of business.”

Oftentimes, they would pay hired guns (hit men) to rid outlaws the local marshals and sheriffs could not handle.

Occasionally, they would hire them as bounty hunters to track down outlaws and bring them back “dead or alive.”

In the cold real politik reality of the new, new West of the Biden era, Post WW II, the old-time gun slingers are replaced by law-book-toting lawyers and arrogant and self-righteous gospel-of-human-rights-thumping paper tigers and dragons preaching fire, brimstone and damnation against “outlaw” African countries for a contract price.

The new, new West’s cattle barons and mine owners are called Joe Biden, Susan Rice (Princess of Darkness), Chris Coons, Gregory Meeks, Robert Menendez, Josep Borrell, Antonio Gutierrez and Co.

The new, new West’s gunslingers are not called Wyatt Earp, Stagecoach Mary or Belle Starr.

They are called Steven Ratner, Kaari Murungi, and Radhika Coomaraswamy.

Their job is to travel the world on behalf of the cattle barons and mine owners of the new, new West and bushwhack governments in developing countries using human rights as a machete.

Ratner’s professional description posted on the University of Michigan Law School website recounts his decades-long exploits as an international hit/lawman chasing after all types of Cambodian and Sri Lankan government outlaws: war criminals, criminals against humanity, perpetrators of genocide, etc.

Ratner began his legal career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department. In 1998–1999, he was appointed by the United Nations (UN) secretary-general to a three-person group of experts to consider options for bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice; and in 2010–2011, he was a member of the UN’s three-person Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, which advised the UN Secretary-General on human rights violations related to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war… (Boldface added.)

Ratner has been a decades-long legal hit man for the State Department travelling to Cambodia, Sri Lanka and elsewhere in hot pursuit of alleged human rights outlaws.

As a member of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE), Ratner is reprising his role in Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Indeed, it is not a big deal for him. All he has to do is cut and paste the Cambodia and Sri Lanka “investigative” reports, substitute “Ethiopia” for the two countries and voila!

Another fine fictional human rights violations report on Ethiopia! On March 2, 2022, Ratner’s Gang of 3 was appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in Ethiopia.

On March 11, 2022, Ratner represented the following incredible statement on the University of Michigan Law School website: “Ethiopia launched a military offensive on its northern region of Tigray in November 2020. The ensuing conflict with separatist forces led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has left thousands dead, nearly two million civilians displaced, and 400,000 on the verge of famine.”

The whole world, and especially the US, knows the terrorist TPLF started the war! On November 4, 2020, the day after the TPLF attacked Ethiopian federal forces in Tigray region; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement making clear the U.S. position:

The United States is deeply concerned by reports that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front carried out attacks on Ethiopian National Defense Force bases in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on November 3. (Boldface added.)

Not only that, a top leader of the TPLF terrorist group explained how and why they started the war.

How Ratner would conduct his “investigation” and frame Ethiopia for human rights violations was clear nine days after his appointment to the expert panel.

Ratner had already concluded Ethiopia had started the war and announced it to the world. His job was simply to selectively collect evidence to support his conclusion: “Ethiopia launched an attack on Tigray. Rampaging Ethiopian troops committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, rape, torture, etc. in Tigray.”

That is precisely what the September 19, 2022 ICHREE report concluded. Ratner and the Cambodia hit job

In 1998–1999, Ratner was appointed by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to a three-person group of experts to “consider options for bringing members of the Khmer Rouge regime to justice in Cambodia.”

Indeed, Ratner was instrumental in getting the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution asking the Secretary-General to consider “the possibility of the appointment of a group of experts” to look into human rights violations, war crimes, etc., in Cambodia.

Once appointed, Ratner’s group was given a triple mandate: (1) evaluate the existing evidence and determine the nature of the crimes committed; (2) assess the feasibility of bringing leaders to justice and (3) explore options for trials before an international or domestic court.

Ratner’s group also insisted the main source of evidence will be witness testimony. Any trial lawyer worth his salt knows, “eyewitness testimony is fickle and, all too often, shockingly inaccurate.”

Ratner’s group undertook its “investigation” in Cambodia and reported commission of various offenses under international law including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, forced labor and torture among others.

Ratner’s group recommended trials of suspects be confined to “those persons most responsible for the most serious violations of human rights in Cambodia including senior leaders with responsibility over the abuses as well as those at lower levels who are directly implicated in the most serious atrocities.”

Ratner’s group further concluded only an ad hoc UN tribunal would effectively mete out justice to the Khmer Rouge, rejecting proposals for trials in both a Cambodian criminal court and a UN-supervised Cambodian court.

Ratner’s group further considered and rejected other mechanisms of accountability, including investigatory or truth commissions, removal and exclusion from office of offenders, and financial sanctions.

So, the million-dollar question is this: What was the outcome of the Ratner expert group’s Cambodia investigation?

On September 22, 2022, after 16 years and ONLY 3 convictions, the international tribunal for Cambodia closed down for good.

National Public Radio reported: The international court convened in Cambodia to judge the Khmer Rouge for its brutal 1970s rule ended its work Thursday after spending $337 million and 16 years to convict just three men of crimes after the regime cause the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people. (Boldface added.)

To add insult to injury, the court ended its work by rejecting the genocide conviction of the only surviving leader who is in prison and 91 years old.

It cost USD 112 million to convict each one of the three Cambodian defendants!

Where did all that money go?

Though as a criminal defense lawyer I believe the accused is entitled to the best defense, I am appalled that much of the $337 million went to cover lawyers’ fees, wild goose chase investigations and grease the palms of corrupt officials and UN bureaucrats to keep the investigative scam going.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The UN Human Rights Council spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to feed lawyers and other bottom feeders and let hang to dry (turn over in their grave) 1.7 million Cambodians!

Ratner and the Sri Lankan hit job

In 2010-11, Ratner was called to service once again by the new, new West “cattle barons and mine owners.”

Ratner was appointed as a member of the UN’s three-person panel of experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka with the aim of advising UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on human rights violations related to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Beginning in the 1970s, Sri Lanka had faced a bloody terrorist war at the hands of the “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE/Tamil Tigers”. Hundreds of thousands were killed, maimed and displaced in Tamil Tiger terrorist war. In 2009, Sri Lankan defense forces defeated the Tamil terrorists.

In the anti-terrorist action, it was alleged Sri Lankan defense forces attacked civilians and hospitals, denied food and medicines to the population and committed war crimes and all sort of atrocities.

After the Sri Lankan government declared victory over the terrorists in 2009, it invited Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to visit.

Barely a week after Moon’s visit, the UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on Sri Lanka at the request of Western governments to look into human rights violations during the Sri Lankan civil war.

In March 2011, Ratner’s panel of experts issued a 214-page report that threw everything, except the kitchen sink, at the Sri Lankan government.

Ratner’s group accused the Sri Lankan government of

(1) killing of civilians through widespread shelling; (2) shelling of hospitals and humanitarian objects; (3) denial of humanitarian assistance; (4) human rights violations suffered by victims and survivors of the conflict, including both internally displaced persons and suspected LTTE cadre; (5) human rights violations outside the conflict zone, including against the media and other critics of the government; (6) using civilians as human buffers; (7) killing civilians attempting to flee LTTE control; (8) using military equipment in the proximity of civilians; (9) forced recruitment of children and (10) forced labor.

Ratner’s group estimated more than 40 thousand people had been extra judicially killed by the Sri Lankan government. Ratner’s group barely documented the horrendous crimes of the Tamil terrorists.

So, the million-dollar question is what happened to Ratner’s Sri Lankan investigation and report?

To make a long story short, as of September 12, 2022, the Sri Lankan government has told the UN Human Rights Council to take their report and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine!

In March 2019, Sri Lanka co-sponsored a resolution made by the UN giving the country a 2-year deadline to establish a judicial mechanism to assess violation of humanitarian international law committed during the civil war.

Tiger Tamils are to Sri Lanka as TPLF hyenas are to Ethiopia

There is great similarity between the Tamil Tiger terrorists and the TPLF hyena terrorists in Ethiopia.

On October 8, 1997, the US State Department classified the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a foreign terrorist organization.

From a date yet to be ascertained until June 2014, the TPLF was listed as a terrorist group by the US Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security determined:

The TPLF qualifies as a Tier III terrorist organization under INA section 212(a) (3) (B) (vi) (III) on the basis of its violent activities before it became part of the ruling coalition and the government of Ethiopia in May 1991.

The Tamil Tigers are listed in the Global Terrorism Database as a dangerous terrorist group. The TPLF Hyenas are listed in the Global Terrorism Database as a dangerous terrorist group.

On November 11-14, 1993, the Tamil Tigers attacked Sri Lankan military base in government-controlled area of Pooneryn, overrunning the garrison and capturing military hardware and killing 532 Sri soldiers and 135 sailors.

On November 3-4, 2020, TPLF Hyenas attacked a federal military base (Northern Command) in Tigray region, overrunning the garrison and capturing military hardware and killing and maiming thousands of Ethiopian soldiers.

In August 2009, a 1,000 strong force of the Tamil Tigers massacred some 285 men, women and children, around a third of the population of the Palliyagodella village.

On November 9, 2020, the TPLF Hyenas massacred 766 innocent people in Mai Cadra. The Tamil Tigers forcibly recruited child soldiers.

The Ethiopian herald September 27/2022

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