earlier the mission concluded that new mass generals should be prosecuted on charges of genocide chris sidoti is a human rights lawyer and member of the human rights the united nations human rights council's independent international fact finding mission on me and maher who joins us from sydney chris sidoti if this were to happen what would it actually achieve. it would achieve in the end justice in may in march but i think more importantly a transform ation of man masses society the military continues to dominate me and politically and economically and unless that changes we are not going to see fundamental changing in the human rights situation within that country ok cutting financial ties or imposing financial sanctions on countries usually harms the people that external actors are trying to protect they are trying to save so why would this be different if it happened. we're not advocating financial cuts to me and as a whole in fact to the contrary we are arguing strongly against comprehensive national sanctions they didn't work in may and mar in the past they result was exactly as you des

earlier the mission concluded that men must generals should be prosecuted on charges of genocide chris sidoti is a human rights lawyer and member of the united nations human rights council's independent international fact finding mission on him he says the military is still the power behind the throne. we're not advocating financial cuts to me and as a whole in fact to the contrary we are arguing strongly against comprehensive national sanctions they didn't work in may and mar in the past they result was exactly as you described and that is that the people were impoverished the fact is that during the sanctions in the past the general still got richer we advocate instead not nation wide sanctions not comprehensive sanctions but carefully targeted sanctions against the military they're the ones who are responsible for the situation they are responsible for the massacres the rights of the human rights violations across the country and they are the ones that should bear the price of that and so what we were g.e. is disengagement financial disengagement political disengagement from the generals i