Spiegel Online | 28.10.2017
Around the world, migrants are locked up in camps, abused and often driven to the brink of starvation. Many die as a result. These crimes should finally be punished, by the International Criminal Court.
A Guest Editorial by Ioannis Kalpouzos and Itamar Mann
Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions, presented animportant new report to the UN General Assembly on Friday. The report is on „Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants“ — already an unordinary focus for her mandate. In recent years, her office has focused nearly exclusively on counter-terrorism, particularly on deaths by drone attacks.
As she explains, the report concerns „an international crime whose very banality in the eyes of so many makes its tragedy particularly grave and disturbing.“ The contention is rather dramatic, and we believe that it is indeed historic, at least as far as reports by UN bodies are concerned.