Det spesielle med High Commissionar for Human Rights, Navi Pillays, tale FN Generalforsamling mandag var ikke innholdet, men konsekvensene.

FNs Menneskerettsråd har tjent som en arena for hysteriske angrep på Israel, samtidig som de samme landene har beskyttet hverandre mot kritikk.

Nå fører Assad-regimets brutalitet til at Menneskerettsrådet og menneskerettskommissæren må velge side, og de kan ikke velge Syria.

Kun Iran og Nord-Korea støttet Syrias forsøk på å hindre Pillay i å tale.

In a report to the UN General Assembly in New York, Mrs Pillay said: “The government can not commit such acts against its people without its legitimacy being eroded.
“Civilians have borne the brunt of the violence. The nature and scale of abuses committed by the military forces suggest that crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed.”
Children had not been spared, with at least 400 deaths this year alone, and youngsters as young as 10 being held in solitary confinement, the report said.
Mrs Pillay added that there had been numerous accounts of sexual violence and rapes in custody, particularly of boys and young men.
Following the arrests of doctors and their patients, civilians were too afraid to go to hospital, and were instead being treated in underground clinics in apartments and farms.
Mrs Pillay said that her organisation was now unable to operate in Syria, raising the likelihood that human rights abuses had grown worse in recent weeks.
She went on: «I am particularly appalled by the ongoing onslaught on Homs. According to credible accounts, the Syrian army has shelled densely populated neighborhoods of Homs in what appears to be an indiscriminate attack on civilian areas.
«More than 300 people have reportedly been killed in the city since the start of this assault 10 days ago. The majority of them were victims of the shelling.»

Man kan se for seg utgangen på storyen: Assad vil høyst sannsynlig blit tiltalt av FNs internasjonale straffedomstol. Han ender opp i eksil, som død eller foran domstolen.

Samtidig er Russland og Kina ved å ende opp som garanter for at den blodige nedslaktingen kan pågå. Det kan bli et omdømmetap av dimensjoner, spesielt for Russland. Russland har tradisjonelt hatt et image å pleie i araberverdenen. Nå er Russland ved å spille seg ut over sidelinjen. Moskva ender opp som et land som ikke forstå endringene i Midtøsten og plassert seg selv på historiens skraphaug.

Syrian troops are raping and torturing, UN watchdog claims
Syria is guilty of crimes against humanity including rape and torture, and those responsible should be prosecuted, the United Nations human rights watchdog has said.