Ruth Pollard, Columnist

Empty Mantras Won’t Protect Myanmar’s People

The UN Security Council has options but is missing in action, just when protesters facing a brutal military need it most.

March 11, 2021 at 12:00 AM UTC

By Ruth Pollard

Ruth Pollard is a Bloomberg Opinion Managing Editor. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia government team leader at Bloomberg News and Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

They have a right to protection, not platitudes.
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So we’re back to “never again.” Again.

Those two words are best-known in association with the Holocaust. Now many view them as an empty mantra, representing the international community’s vow not to repeat its failure in the 1990s to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, despite explicit warnings of the impending bloodshed, or the atrocities in the Balkans.