Labour Party’s Sir Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, was accused by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, that he was successfully suing journalists like Julian Assange instead of prosecuting the criminals. Johnson’s comment created an uproar in the UK.
The Question
The world is at war. People are suffering all around the war. But who should suffer: people or the rulers? Without any doubt, people had nothing to with the war. War is all about the powerful parties who always exploit the resources for their subjective as well as political interests.
But do the powerful parties face the legal consequences of their destructive anti-humanist activities? They do not face the legal consequences of their actions because they manipulate the laws as well as use them to legalise their ‘illegal’ activities.
The Sufferer
Those who should have suffered as well be ashamed of their destructive anti-humanist activities—they, instead, find and punish people like Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, so that they can continue the systematic oppression.
Johnson’s claim indirectly addresses the political issue of Assange that the system instead of prosecuting the criminals prosecutes the journalists who only work for the greater good of society. Worldwide, journalists are suffering because they try to expose the government’s real intentions behind its developmental hypocrisy.
What Assange Did?
Assange exposed war crimes and the criminals behind the crimes. And you are not allowed to expose a criminal because he or she is way more powerful than the exposer. Assange is not only being prosecuted because he exposed war crimes and the criminals behind the crimes, rather it is a political statement to others who wish to do the same.
Wikileaks exposed war crimes committed by the US and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it is time to expose others like the US so that the whole world could see the real faces of their unapologetic rulers. Assange’s work is the symbol of peace and freedom. And when the world is at war, the whole world needs him as well as more people like him to create the narrative against all forms of systematic discrimination and exploitation.
Assange’s lawyers along with his supporters and well-wishers are trying their best to fight legally so that at any cost they can stop his deportation to the US. Once Assange is deported, he might face a verdict that can keep him in jail for 175 years.
Worldwide, we need to start a socio-political movement to free Julian Assange as soon as possible. It is important to free him because war crime is an ongoing phenomenon. Assange could become the voice of billions of people who are suffering reasonlessly because of ongoing wars all over the world.
