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But how do you accomplish that? Simple, all it takes is a wild imagination and a healthy dose of hypocrisy:
'"To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran - three Member States behind the conquest of and carnage in Aleppo - you bear responsibility for these atrocities. By rejecting UN-ICRC evacuation efforts, you are signaling to those militia who are massacring innocents to keep doing what they are doing. Denying or obfuscating the facts - as you will do today - saying up is down, black is white, will not absolve you.
"When one day there is a full accounting of the horrors committed in this assault of Aleppo - and that day will come, sooner or later - you will not be able to say you did not know what was happening. You will not be able to say you were not involved. We all know what is happening. And we all know you are involved. Aleppo will join the ranks of those events in world history that define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later. Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and, now, Aleppo.
"To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, your forces and proxies are carrying out these crimes. Your barrel bombs and mortars and airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose. It is your noose. Three Member States of the UN contributing to a noose around civilians. It should shame you.
"Instead, by all appearances, it is emboldening you. You are plotting your next assault. Are you truly incapable of shame? Is there literally nothing that can shame you? Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit? Is there nothing you will not lie about or justify?"
Modern evil is defined by Halabja, Rwanda and Srebrenica? Really? Why not My Lai, Haditha and Falluja? Why not the Iraq sanctions? And wait a minute, so now kicking out al-Qaeda and freeing its civilian human shields is a bad thing? Since when?
Truly Russia's Ambassador Churkin is a martyr and a saint for calmly listening to this drivel. But we feel that he should continue. In fact Donald Trump should re-appoint Power to continue her term under his administration. It won't be easy on our ears but if it helps keep Power away from African children our sacrifice will be well worth it.
Vitali Churkin, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations (Russian): "I do not want to remind the Western Troika which called for today's meeting and carried it out on a raised voice, about its role in the creation of ISIS as a result of US-UK intervention in Iraq and US policy in this country. I do not want to remind about the role that these three countries played in unwinding the Syrian crisis, which resulted in such a dire consequences and gave the space to terrorist organisations on the territories of Iraq and Syria. But the speech by US representative is particularly strange to me, which built her statement as if she is Mother Theresa herself. Please, remember which country you represent. Please, remember the track record of your country."... very good :D