The double-standard policy is the worst threat to the credibility of international law

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Sergei Lavrov, the foreign affairs minister of the Russia, which leads the “axis of evil” in the world, said that it is inconceivable and illegal to hold elections in Ukraine while a faction of the Ukrainian people, i.e. the Russian-speaking minority, is under an armed threat.

Bashar Al-Assad’s criminal regime has killed more than 200,000 Syrians, including 60,000 women and children. More than 100,000 citizens have been subjected to ill-treatment and thousands of women have been raped. The regime has led methodical campaigns of sectarian and ethnic cleansing, and used cluster bombs, ballistic and chemical weapons against its own people. It has destroyed and plundered the nation’s monuments and brought about the displacement of more than 10 million Syrians. It has released Al-Qaeda extremists and terrorists, and allowed them to use oil-rich regions as a basis for self-financing purposes while ordering its mercenaries not to target them in their air raids. Yet, a schizophrenic Lavrov claims that this regime can organize new presidential elections and rig them as it has been doing for the past 50 years.

One of the main missions of the world’s superpowers is to protect civil peace, defend human rights, respect people’s right to self-determination and uphold peoples’ freedom. Ironically, these superpowers are the first to violate these rights or have recourse to a double-standard policy.

Each free and democratic person around the world faces the following questions: Who is responsible for terrorism? Do the superpowers know the facts about fighting terrorism and still keep them secret? Are they rather not promoting it? Terrorism starts with a desperate and oppressed human being whose rights are being violated. This makes it easier to sponsor, recruit and transform this person into a suicide bomber who is ready for everything out of revenge and in the name of religion.

It is of the utmost importance to answer this question and put an end to this situation if we wish for a more secure and fairer world…

About the author

Mohammad Fahed Bacha, writer, political analyst and Syrian dissident. Founding member of the Union of Syrian Democrats