Pierre Schori: Kristersson's absence in the debate deafening
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Published 06.30
DEBATE.
DEBATE. In modern times, Wikipedia lists three military sieges in order of magnitude as the worst during the 20th century and onwards:
Hitler Germany's siege of Leningrad 1941-1944.
The Soviet Union's repeated attacks on the capital ns upprepade anfall mot huvudstaden Grozny in Chechnya between 1994 and 1999.
The siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Bosnian Serb Army from 1992-1996.
The Siege of Leningrad lasted 827 days, from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944, and is the longest in modern times. The death toll is estimated at 650,000 to one million people. Hitler's order was that the inhabitants of Leningrad should be starved into submission. The siege is considered one of the greatest war crimes ever committed.
In 1992, Grozny had a population of around 480,000, but after two wars and more than ten years of unrest, the population was halved. The city's oil and natural gas industry and much of its infrastructure were left in ruins.
The Bosnian Serb Army had access to much heavier weapons than Sarajevo. The city's defenders nevertheless managed to keep the besiegers out of the city center. 10,000 Sarajevo residents were killed, 1,621 of whom were children. After four years of siege, a peace agreement was signed.
A deafening absence from the debate
After Hamas's Hamas's brutal attack on a youth festival in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu responded with what developed into a full-scale war of attrition against the Palestinian people.(
With the support of her soulmate in the White House.
But also under investigation by the Internationol Criminal Court (ICC).
The court suspects Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant "on reasonable grounds" of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza. The same accusations were leveled against several Hamas leaders - who were subsequently killed by Israel.
The arrest warrant means that Netanyahu and Gallant should be arrested if they travel to any of the 125 countries that are parties to the ICC. This means that Sweden is also obliged to cooperate with the court, including when it comes to executing arrest warrants.
Against this background, and not least the Christian Democrats, Liberals and Sweden Democrats' questioning of the ICC’s criticism and Ulf Kristersson's deafening absence from the debate, it would be appropriate for the Swedish Prime Minister to clarify how he views the ICC’s
accusations against Israel.
His predecessors in office did not hesitate to speak out in similar circumstances.
Olof Palme’s Christmas speech on 23 December 1972 dealt with the ongoing US terror bombings of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. Palme, who was then Prime Minister, personally called Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) and read a text that was broadcast on Lunchekot the same day:
One should call things by their right names. What is happening now is a
form of torture.
What is being done is to torment people, to torment a nation in order to humiliate it,
to force it into submission to the language of power.
And that is why the bombings are an atrocity. And we have many examples of that in modern history. And they are generally connected with a name: Guernica, Oradou, Babi Yar, Katyń, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka. There, violence has triumphed. But the judgment of posterity has fallen hard on those who bore responsibility.
Now a new name is being added to the list: Hanoi, Christmas 1972.
Pierre Schori, former Minister of State (S) for Migration Affairs and UN Ambassador
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