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what is the purpose of public international law if there are no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it? Maria Kyriacou


Answer

China Keitetsi: Of course we have UN. We have all their laws, but they're not implemented. I think it is time that we really mean what we say and I think we should equip UN so that they can manage these conflicts. For example, in Rwanda, because UN was not equipped enough, a million people were killed in the presence of UN because UN was overpowered. In Congo, for years a war had been going on. There is UN, but people are still dying every day. Then in northern Uganda, 20 years of war. UN can only speak and yet we have so much resources of those countries, of other countries, and nothing is done. People are more dying now than they did when UN didn't exist. People more dying, children are more suffering more than before. It is untold suffering and it have become our everyday life. We seem to have accepted this suffering. We seem to have seen so much of death that we have decided to live with it. It's like we have accepted the loss of human beings. And I think it's a shame that we still have UN, but it cannot do its job. I think the world's poor and rich should begin to make UN do the job it was assigned to do.