- August 21, 2024
- 1:48 pm
- World News
August 21 is celebrated International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of TerrorismThis memorable date was established by the UN General Assembly in 2017 to support victims of terrorist acts and promote the protection of their rights.
In commemoration of the Seventh International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on 21 August 2024 at the United Nations a virtual event will take place under the name “Voices for Peace: Victims of Terrorism as Defenders and Educators of Peace”. Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres will deliver a speech followed by opening remarks by the Deputy Secretary General for the Counter-Terrorism Department Vladimir Voronkov (Russia !!!).
As the UN reported, “in 2023, 8,352 people died from terrorist attacks worldwide,” but the UN statistics do not include the victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine.
In the UN building, where visitors are presented with photographic evidence of terrorist attacks in different countries, 9/11, the attacks in Kenya and Indonesia are mentioned, but not a word or a single photograph is mentioned about the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
On October 7, more than 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas militants, an organization designated as terrorist by the US, UK and EU.
Hamas still holds 109 hostages, many of whom are confirmed to have died during the Gaza war.
In general, terrorism is the use or threat of violence to achieve political, religious or ideological goals.
The “heyday” of terrorism occurred in the second half of the 20th century and remains a serious phenomenon to which the world’s leading countries have not yet found an effective countermeasure.
At the moment, statistics on Ukrainian civilians killed and wounded as a result of Russian aggression are not taken into account.
According to the UN, since February 24, 2022, about 11 thousand Ukrainians have died at the hands of Russian occupiers, including more than 500 children.
Currently, Russia has been recognized as a terrorist state only by Ukraine, Lithuania and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Slovakia, the European Parliament and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly have recognized Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
At a minimum, an important political step could be for the United States to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
So far, the US list of such countries includes Russia's allies: Syria, Iran, Cuba and the DPRK.
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