We must ask ourselves a brutal question, without hiding behind diplomatic niceties: why is such a blatant and systematic violation of international law, why do the genocides unfolding before our very eyes, fail to provoke such revulsion as to bring the system crashing down? Why does this horror not result in the only logical, necessary and legally mandated response under international law: immediate, severe and crippling sanctions against these two powers?

Patrizia Pisino