Blogger’s Note: This is how the UK Press TV reported this story on its Tekegram Channel:
‘Western terrorism on display
The UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as ‘gravest crime against humanity’.
The resolution – proposed by Ghana – was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against – the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.
@PressTV
Of course, the UK, and the EU (including the usually pro-Palestine Ireland) voted to “Abstain” – an only marginally better moral option than “Opposing” or “Refusing” to vote. By way of illustration of the duplicitous nature of international politics – when the same UN condemned Iran for defending itself against the illegal attacks it suffered at the hands of the US and Israel – both Russia and China “Abstained” (whilst refusing to us their “Veto”). Whereas one of President Maduro’s last political engagement was in a gift-exchanging ceremony between himself and representatives of the PRC – Chinese-language media today described his illegal kidnapping at the hands of Trump’s henchmen as “stunning” – so abit of a mixed bag there. But what else do we see? Well, those opposing were the far-right US, Israel, and Argentina. Apparently, the indignant Zionist press today is full of stories condemning this vote as being “anti-Sematic” – as it undermines the usual play-book that declares the Holocaust of WWII the greatest crime (by this, the Zionist focus only on the 6 million Jewish victims and ignore the 41 million Soviet dead and wound, or the 5 million disabled, Romani, homosexuals, dissidents, and many other victims – Hitler murdered 800,000 Germans for opposing his regime). On a more contentious note – many history books draw attention to the delicate matter of Jewish business owners being directly involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Venezuela was not allowed to vote due to the illegal sanctions imposed upon that country by the US. Both Spain (which has made a principled stand regarding Iran) joined the likes of Neo-Nazi Ukraine in “Abstaining” – demonstrating solidarity with their EU and UK colleagues. The right-wing, Trump-allied regimes in Bolivia and Ecuador did not vote. We may deduce that “Abstaining” in this vote was tantamount to “Opposing” – but in a more media-friendly. Ghana, whose people suffered tremendously from Slavery, sponsored this vote. ACW (26.3.2026)
West refuses to condemn slavery in UN General Assembly vote
By Ben Norton – 26.3.2026
The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it.
The United Nations General Assembly held a vote on a resolution denouncing the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”.
The countries of the political West refused to formally condemn the mass enslavement and trafficking of Africans.
The vast majority of UN member states, which are in the Global South, supported the resolution, with 123 votes in favor.
All of Europe (including Ukraine) abstained. There were 52 (a Ghanian source below lists “53”) abstentions in total.
Just three countries voted against the resolution: the United States, Israel, and Argentina’s right-wing regime of Javier Milei.
Paraguay’s conservative, pro-US government abstained. The right-wing, Trump-allied regimes in Bolivia and Ecuador did not vote. (Venezuela lost its right to vote, because it is unable to pay UN membership fees, due to the illegal US sanctions against it.)
Even Ireland and Spain — which in the past have broken with the pro-Israel European Union and supported Palestine — abstained in the vote.
The resolution stated:
‘The trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans [was] the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of all people through racialized regimes of labour, property and capital.’
The capitalist nations of the West developed their economies through the enslavement and extreme exploitation of Africans.
The UN News agency wrote:
‘For more than 400 years, millions of people were stolen from Africa, put in shackles and shipped to the New World to toil in cotton fields and sugar and coffee plantations under scorching heat and the crack of the whip.
Denied their basic humanity and even their own names, they were forced to endure generations of exploitation with repercussions that reverberate today including persistent anti-Black racism and discrimination.’
The resolution was sponsored by Ghana, whose President John Mahama said Africa wanted “reparative justice”.
West opposes reparations for Africans, arguing slavery was supposedly not a crime when it was committed
What especially angered the West about the UN General Assembly resolution was its call for reparations for the African descendants of the victims of slavery.
Western governments argued that they do not owe reparations, because international law did not exist during the mass enslavement and trafficking of Africans, therefore it was supposedly not a crime.
The US representative, Dan Negrea, claimed that the resolution was “highly problematic in countless respects”, the UN News agency reported.
The US government stressed that it “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred”.
The representative of the European Union made the same argument on the floor of the UN.
The EU criticized the resolution for implying “suggestions of a retroactive application of international rules which was non-existent at the time and claims for reparations, which is incompatible with established principles of international law”.
“References to claims for reparations also lack a sound legal basis”, the EU argued, stressing that the “principle of non-retroactivity, a fundamental cornerstone of the international legal order, must be strictly upheld”.
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said the same, in a statement explaining its decision to abstain.
The British representative argued that there is “no duty to provide reparation for historical acts that were not, at the time those acts were committed, violations of international law”.
The UK insisted “that the prohibitions on slavery, the slave trade, and what are now considered crimes against humanity had not yet been established in international law at the time of the transatlantic slave trade”.
General News of Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 