Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage, Russia IL-76 Aircraft: United Nations Ignores Demands for Investigation of Perpetrators of Heinous Crimes
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In a Security Council meeting discussing the sabotage of the Nordstream Pipeline, Professor Jeffrey Sachs delivered a brilliant speech, supporting the report by Journalist Seymour Hersh, and demanding that the crime be investigated by the United Nations.
Former CIA analyst Ray MacGovern attested to the impeccable journalist credentials of Seymour Hersh, and also demanded an investigation into the perpetrator of the crime. Needless to say, such an investigation has not, to date, been held, no doubt because revelation of the identity of the perpetrator would shatter its claim to virtue. Sweden coyly stated that it knew the identity of the perpetrator, but would not reveal it for “security reasons.” One must ask: Whose security?
On January 24 Ukraine euphorically celebrated its downing of the Russian IL-76 aircraft. When it was soon revealed that the Russian plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian Prisoners of War for a prisoner “swap,” and that the euphoric Ukrainians were celebrating the murder of their own citizens, as well as the deaths of the 6 Russians piloting the plane, the celebration ceased, and Ukraine swiftly attempted to backpedal, denying culpability for the murders, going so far as to suggest that it was a Russian “false flag operation.” At the opening of his 11AM press conference that day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the tragedy, and demanded an emergency meeting be held that afternoon at 3PM. Needless to say, the French presidency of the Security Council refused to hold such an emergency meeting, though the event was horrific. No investigation has followed. Foreign Minister Lavrov enumerated a long list of crimes, for which Russia was blamed, with no evidence whatsoever. Lavrov mentioned the Bucha incident, which the mainstream media trumpeted, without evidence, blaming Russia, whose forces had left Bucha three days before corpses were “discovered.” The identities of the corpses had still not been established, and Russia’s insistence on learning the names of the victims “discovered” in Bucha, three days after the departure of the Russians, was ignored. No credible investigation into the truth of the perpetrators of that event has ever been undertaken.
Image: The Skripals (Source: RTE)
Foreign Minister Lavrov also mentioned the case of the Skripals, dead in London, and for which they were also, without evidence, held responsible. Russia had repeatedly demanded an impartial investigation into that case, and needless to say, such an investigation was not undertaken.
The promiscuity with which blame is attributed to one State, and impunity granted to others leaves no doubt that justice is violated, facts and history distorted, and the very credibility of the United Nations is shredded, as its weight is thrown in support of nations guilty of war crimes, the innocent are convicted, and the criminals are exonerated.
The case of Yugoslavia is one of the most egregious examples of this violation of truth. Organ harvesting by the KLA is ignored, as Milosovic is convicted, and NATO’s use of depleted uranium in its bombing of Belgrade, which has led to widespread cancers among civilians, has the blessing of the Security Council. As the accusation was finally hurled at US Senator Joseph McCarthy many decades ago: “Have they no decency?” This betrayal of the hopes of the founder of the United Nations, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is unconscionable.
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Carla Stea is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and Global Research’s Correspondent at UN headquarters, New York.
Featured image: Gas emanating from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, September 28, 2022. / Swedish Coast Guard.
