Luis Moreno Ocampo: Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, on the need for global institutions that create involved, accountable global communities.
"A world with no genocide would be a world where humanity learns that we are a global community.
We need institutions, global institutions. We need The International Criminal Court.
Thomas Lubanga was abducting children and transforming them into soldiers, and transforming the girls into cooks, soldiers, and sexual slaves...
In the international criminal court we are solving the individual responsibility, Lubanga's responsibility, but the ruling is for the world.
When the judges say taking a twelve-year old boy and transforming him into a soldier is a crime, this rule is for Lubanga-- but it's for Columbia, for Sri Lanka, for everywhere.
The idea is yes, my community is my neighborhood, and my community is my town, it's my country, but also it's the world. And the world community has a little link... the link is, yes, we respect life. We cannot attack other people. We cannot commit genocide.
We cannot accept that certain groups will be destroyed. Then humanity will react to protect them.
That is, a world with no genocide is a world with a global community who protects each citizen. In Darfur, in Rwanda, or wherever.
So, people feel genocide is something from the Holocaust. Not true. It could happen today. It could happen to you.
The way to escape? Build a global community."
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