Why Are States Speaking Out Now?

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00:00And the statement itself is unusually blunt.

00:03What do you think has finally pushed countries like the UK, France and Japan to speak out so strongly now?

00:10I mean, again, I think if a live stream genocide over almost two years is not enough to be speaking out,

00:17they should have been speaking out this strongly from day one.

00:20It was only three months into the start of genocide in January that the International Court of Justice

00:25already said that there was enough evidence for a plausible risk, plausible case of genocide.

00:31And states have done, by and large, not all states, but by and large states have done very little.

00:36And so I think to come out strongly now is fine, but it's very, very late.

00:41And there are many other things that states should be doing rather than giving.

00:45I think it's potentially also to do with pressure from the public and a response to that

00:50by trying to give some kind of rhetorical assurances to their own citizens and public

00:55who are absolutely horrified by this, by the atrocities they've been witnessing

00:59to try and defuse some of that pressure.

01:02But I don't think it's working. Nobody's buying it.