Tony Greig Quotes

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Effective intervention ended Sierra Leone’s civil war, while nonintervention condemned Rwanda to genocide.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

That a pressing need exists for an International Criminal Court is an unhappy reflection on the tragic realities of the world today.

To have a body of humanitarian law, built up over decades and accepted by the great majority of U. N. member states, without an enforcement mechanism is a fruitless exercise.

Blaming the UN for Rwanda is like blaming Madison Square Garden when the Knicks play badly.

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

Every war has revolutionary justice.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.