What is the world coming to when countries that gained their hard-won independence from their white masters are plunged into poverty by corrupt governments, civil wars and thugs posing as soldiers.
Look at World War 2 -- Hitler used thugs to seize power in Germany.
Look at Asia: the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia that committed mass murders and up till today, the criminal masterminds of that country's genocide haven't been tried and convicted yet. The world failed to deal with these butchers. Their imitators learned that the world is so respectful of sovereign rights that the rights of the defenceless populace can be ignored. These imitators know that they are beyond the shortened arm of the law.
These butchers have created successors in their own image in Myanmar and Zimbabwe. Their thugs have succeeded in oppressing a powerless citizenry and exacerbated the misery and suffering of the populace by preventing them from gaining access to foreign aid.
The world has failed one of the most important groups of today: children. Children in these countries go to bed hungry. They live in fear. They are made orphans when their parents are murdered. Many are terrorised by thugs. A great majority don't have access to shelter, protection, food and education.
The United Nations had crafted a beautifully worded Convention on the Rights of Children http://www.unicef.org/crc/. It's legally binding but it is without teeth. Nothing has been done to protect the rights of children and relieve them of their suffering at the hands of a self-serving government and their armies of thugs.
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