By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey via Huffington Post
Stripped of its previously presumed preventive rationale, ritualism, moralizing & mythology, the death penalty stands out as torture (or, employing terminology applied by a significant segment of US Courts, as “cruel & unusual punishment.”) –MORE–
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/prosecuting-death-penalty_b_8351648.html
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Blocking accountability & seeking to blame others for its crimes, even when premeditated is a KGB tactic, but only marginally successful. Putin should have learned the lesson that the truth is bound to come through.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/is-mh17-putins-katyn-wood_b_7842822.html
Bosnia to US, From Refugees to Great Americans
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Early July still brings a bittersweet week for Bosnian-Americans. They are reminded by the Srebrenica genocide commemoration why so many had to flee Bosnia & Herzegovina and why they/we are so fortunate to have been welcomed in America.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/bosnia-to-us-from-refugee_b_7724096.html
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey via Huffington Post
When I was representing BiH at the UN, diplomats parroting cliches & media too frequently fell into the trap of repeating tales of “age old hatreds” while centuries of coexistence & the progress of the whole of society through diversity were ignored.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/burundi-politics-of-ego-and-not-ethnicity_b_7428356.html
Can UN Peacekeepers Bring Ukraine Peace?
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Call by Ukraine President Poroshenko for UN Peacekeepers to monitor the new ceasefire in the East testifies to his commitment, his desperation, or both.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/can-un-peacekeepers-bring_b_6713686.html
CROSSING THE RED LINE OF THE ICC
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/will-zionism-hamas-ideolo_b_5662702.html
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Prince Zeid & I were among the original signatories to the Rome Statute, having spent several months establishing the institutional and legal foundation for the ICC. We worked together to insure sexual violence in conflict & gender based crimes were addressed fully within the Rome Statute & by future court.