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The loud cheering that has greeted past humanitarian aid pledges has given way to a shameful silence.
The international community’s shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world.
But the preceding savagery of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ethnic cleansing, in that first phase of the Balkan tragedy, and the lily-livered impotence of the EU, had been so shocking and so shameful for the Europeans, that when they saw President Slobodan Milosevic embarking on an even more outrageous process of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with the prospective death or displacement of tens or hundreds of thousands of Albanian Kosovars, they were compelled, almost willy nilly, to intervene more forcefully this time round.
Are we honest and brave enough (which in this case also means scared enough) to shuck our romantic fantasies about the downtrodden, and our shameful rationalizations borne of guilt, bravado and indifference?
The consequence of the shameful behavior of the Dutch is that the UN was complicit in war crimes -- and 7,000 Muslim men were brutally massacred in Srebrenica.
Some of this raises memory of the shameful visits during World War II of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Nazi camp at Theresienstadt: the Red Cross basically found conditions satisfactory, though obviously not easy.
When one considers the low proportion of its gross income that the US gives as foreign aid, Trump’s decision becomes even more shameful.
It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations met for a shameful discussion that has been virtually airbrushed from our memory.
It is hard to imagine a more shameful deal.
Meanwhile, opponents of the accord to limit Iran’s nuclear activities for the next 15 years have likened it to the Munich Agreement (shameful appeasement of an evil foe), while its supporters have compared it to the rapprochement between the United States and China in the 1970s.
If similarly shameful disclosures multiply, as I believe they will, let us at least hope that official apologies and condemnations may finally give way to wider, more genuine accountability and reform.
The second male behavior is a patricidal imperative that is perhaps the most shameful and atavistic of the primal impulses that still lurk in some archaic part of our brains.
The international community’s response to the massacres was shameful.
The Neglected Solution to the TB CrisisBOSTON/GENEVA – In an age of rapid technological innovation, it is shameful that almost two million people will die from tuberculosis this year because they are too poor to afford treatment.
The images of separated children were, she argued, “eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for US citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in US history.”
Think of the lamentable response by US President Bill Clinton’s administration to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 or Australia’s shameful rejection of asylum-seeking boat people in the Tampa affair under John Howard’s government a decade ago.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful.
That would be a shameful legacy – one that could be avoided by re-thinking climate policy.
That is how the US got the near-century-long period of “Jim Crow” racial persecution following the Civil War, the herding of Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during World War II, and other shameful episodes.
Had there been an immediate threat of intervention after the Serbian shelling of Dubrovnik or the siege of Vukovar, then the later massacres and ethnic cleansings, the shameful siege of Sarajevo, the brutalities in Mostar and the mass murders in Srebrenica could have been avoided.
They could – without finding it shameful or demeaning – accept a political office and use that position to do what they deem right, not just to hold on to power.
The cause of these missing, but vital, resources lies in the shameful neglect of agriculture in the past two decades.
This ongoing crisis should remind us of a painful, and shameful, episode of recent history: the rejection faced by European Jews seeking refuge from the anti-Semitic fury that raged across Europe in the 1930s.
The deal – the implementation of which will be evaluated this month – is shameful for Mexico and the United States alike.
It is shameful that the warlords of the 1970s and 1980s have become not statesmen but mafiosi in charge of protection rackets (power cuts, for example, provide easy money for suppliers of diesel generators).
It is shameful that selfish bankers and official reluctance to guarantee urgent economic and financial reform have stalled negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.
As Pompeo tweeted, “The world cannot afford China’s shameful hypocrisy toward Muslims.
When so many ordinary people are going out of their way to show compassion and assist the poorest and most vulnerable, it would be utterly shameful if national leaders did not do the same.Governments must join us in creating a safer world for all our children.
It is likely, and certainly desirable, that the USMCA, by effectively introducing a labor and environmental protectorate, will force Mexico to abandon these shameful practices.
Thanks to Trump, a country with just 4% of the world’s population now accounts for more than 20% of total COVID-19 deaths – an utterly shameful outcome, given America’s advanced (albeit expensive) health-care system.
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