Human Right Commison President and his Uncalled for Behavior
June 27, 2015
By Haile Abraham
By now we all have heard about all that baseless Comission of Inquiry report, but here I would like to draw a special
attention to the Human Rights Council (HRC) 29th Regular Session of Human Rights Council Interactive Dialogue on Tuesday,
June 23, 2015, chaired by Joachim Rücker, President of the Human Rights Council, 9th Cycle (2015)
As a President of Human Rights Council (HRC) and a Chair of the Interactive Dialogue, I find it very disturbing that this
person found enough time during the session to exhibited a hidden hostilitly towards Eritrea, its government and its people
and a racist tendecy toward the balck race.
Exhibit #1: Just before the session started the President/Chair informed the floor that members of the COI “have been
subjected to various threats and acts of intimidation in their hotel and the streets since their arrival in Geneva.”
Furthermore, he continued saying that security in the area had been doubled and that he would further investigate and
present his findings in the future.
Personally I find this to be absolutely the lowest form of systematically belittling and insulting the thousands brave
Eritreans who flooded Geneva to protest against his garbage. This new allegation is an open attack on the people of
Eritrea in the Diaspora because there is no doubt that it was mentioned to make the gallant Eritreans look like some sort
of thugs or street gangs. It is obvious that the President and his cohorts, who quickly rushed to express their “concern”
about this new allegation during their 5-minute presentation, could not swallow the fact that so many brave children of
Eritrea can organize themselves in such a short period of time and challenge them in front of their Headquarter. They
couldn’t swallow the fact that Eritreans will always fight and defend their hard-earned freedom and independence wherever
they are and against whomever he is.
Exhibit # 2: After he rudely interrupted the Eritrean Delegate while addressing the newly announced “harassment”
allegation at the end of his presentation, the President had the audacity to rudely admonish the Eritrean delegate for
using words such as “ignorant” “sinister political agenda” and “travesty of justice,” which he said were not “adequate for
this council.”
This is so close to being absurdly funny because, in a sense, the President was trying to insult and embarrass the Eritrean
government for using words “that are not adequate for this council,” but words such as “slavery,” “rape” and “torture,”
which were extensively used throughout the COI report, are supposedly accepted and “adequate for this council.” But if we
look closer, these words are not only an insult to Eritrea but also derogatory and racist in nature, and also absolute
attack on the entire black race who had been, and continue to be, enslaved by the white European people.
It is a telltale sign that he President chose to show his true nature in unorthodox way, but this goes to show the basic
principle and tenet by which his organization functions. (See link below)
http://webtv.un.org/search/id-commission-of-inquiry-on-eritrea-23rd-meeting-29th-regular-session-of-human-rights-council/4317580716001?term=eritrea
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