THE QUESTION
Why do atrocities go unpunished?
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Every state judges the case by what it costs them
A mission is judged on casualties among peacekeepers, not among civilians
The same states arming a party also vote on protecting its victims
Nobody has ever costed prevention against the response that followed
Arms sales and atrocity policy sit in different ministries
The people who see it first have no route to those who decide
We compete with each other for the same appeal
Diaspora warnings are dismissed as partisan
Each summary removes the part that would require action
Field reports are summarised three times before they reach a capital
Our funding depends on the emergency continuing
A donor can point at a camp and cannot point at a war that did not start
Prevention has no budget line anywhere
Staff who witness it are bound by agreements they did not choose
Troop-contributing countries veto the risk their soldiers may take
Survivors testify repeatedly and are helped by none of it
The threshold for the word 'genocide' is legal, not humanitarian
Local staff take the risk and international staff hold the mandate
The people in danger are never in the room where it is decided
Early warning systems produce reports nobody is obliged to answer
A tribunal convicts individuals and leaves the structure intact
A warning that is wrong destroys the credibility of the next one
Lawyers advise against the word for exactly that reason
Money arrives when there are bodies, not before
The warnings were unmistakable long before anything was done
Nobody is held accountable for a mission that watched
Acting early is politically costly and acting late is not punished
Warnings were clear months before anyone acted
So warnings are hedged until they are unarguable, which is too late
By the time it is a briefing it is a statistic
Naming it triggers obligations, so it is not named
Evidence is gathered for a trial that may happen in fifteen years
Access requires the consent of the government doing the harming
Peacekeepers are deployed with mandates that forbid what is needed
Speaking publicly ends the access that lets us feed people
Justice arrives after the society that needed it has gone
Local knowledge is treated as bias and distance is treated as objectivity
So the organisation that knows most says least