#PhilippeSands: "L'histoire enseigne que sans justice, il n'y a pas de paix, sauf à court terme."
Source: #ElPaís, 2.7.2023.
https://conversacionsobrehistoria.info/2023/07/04/philippe-sands-la-historia-ensena-que-sin-justicia-no-hay-paz-salvo-a-corto-plazo/#respond

Bought #TheLastColony by #PhilippeSands this lunchtime, couldn’t stop reading it & book now completed. Appalling and flagrant breaches of #InternationalLaw, ongoing, by successive UK Governments in displacing the previous residents of the #Chagos Islands and refusing to accept the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion & #UN General Assembly resolutions. #books

“Let the anniversary of this terrible moment in Europe be used to signal that crossing this line will not be tolerated and that there will be individual criminal liability [for the international crime of #aggression against #Ukraine] right to the very top.” #PhilippeSands #Putin #UkraineWar

#TheLastColony by #PhilippeSands is extraordinary. And I find myself wondering (once a legal campaigner, always a legal campaigner) what the plan is to force the next Govt to stop ignoring the rights of the Changossians - it will surely be much harder for Starmer et al to continue to ignore UN rulings to return #TheChagosIslands as May & her successors have done?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/14/the-last-colony-by-philippe-sands-review-britains-chagos-islands-shame

#TheLastColony by #PhilippeSands is extraordinary. And I find myself wondering (once a legal campaigner, always a legal campaigner) what the plan is to force the next Govt to stop ignoring the rights of the Changossians - it will surely be much harder for Starmer et al to continue to ignore UN rulings to return #TheChagosIslands as May & her successors have done?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/14/the-last-colony-by-philippe-sands-review-britains-chagos-islands-shame

Below left are the books I’ve read since #Russia invaded #Ukraine in Feb 2022 on #Ukraine and its #history, #Putin & #tyranny. #EastWestStreet by #PhilippeSands is particularly good, and Sands wrote the foreword to “Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister” by historian #OlesyaKhromeychuk, Director of the Ukrainian Institute London https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/ which I’m currently reading (below right). The “war in eastern Ukraine” she refers to is the one that started in 2014, only we ignored it …

@guardian finally justice for Chagodians #philippesands #thelastcolony #internationalcourtofjustice

#Essais 📚 Philippe Sands: «Le droit peut jouer un rôle, mais ne peut pas tout régler»

L’avocat #PhilippeSands, qui avait fait la genèse des notions de «crime contre l’humanité» et de «génocide», déplace son regard vers les îles Chagos, «dernière colonie» britannique. Entretien sur ce que peut et ne peut pas le #DroitInternational, dans l’océan Indien comme en Ukraine.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/060922/philippe-sands-le-droit-peut-jouer-un-role-mais-ne-peut-pas-tout-regler

#Essais 📚 Philippe Sands: «Le droit peut jouer un rôle, mais ne peut pas tout régler»

L’avocat #PhilippeSands, qui avait fait la genèse des notions de «crime contre l’humanité» et de «génocide», déplace son regard vers les îles Chagos, «dernière colonie» britannique. Entretien sur ce que peut et ne peut pas le #DroitInternational, dans l’océan Indien comme en Ukraine.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/060922/philippe-sands-le-droit-peut-jouer-un-role-mais-ne-peut-pas-tout-regler