Guess which 3 countries just voted against preventing, glorifying and promoting Nazism? [View all]

[go west young man]

The US, Ukraine and Canada.......that's who. Pretty much sums it all up lately.


http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/69/docs/voting_sheets/L56.Rev1.pdf



http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/69/L.56/Rev.1&referer=http://www.un.org/en/documents/&Lang=E


Voting NO might have had something to do with this section, as this is pretty much what has been happening in Ukraine.

4. Expresses deep concern about the glorification, in any form, of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and memorials and holding public demonstrations in the name of the glorification of the Nazi past, the Nazi movement and neo Nazism, as well as by declaring or attempting to declare such members and those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition and collaborated with the Nazi movement participants in national liberation movements;

or possibly it was one of these two sections, both of which apply to segments of the Kiev, Ukrainian government.

6. Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that “any commemorative celebration of the Nazi regime, its allies and related organizations, whether official or unofficial, should be prohibited by States”,12 and stresses in this regard that it is important that States take measures, in accordance with international human rights law, to counteract any celebration of the Nazi SS organization and all its integral parts, including the Waffen SS;

7. Expresses concern about recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949;13