20/09/2025
📰 “From Wombs to Warheads: A World Unwilling to Learn”
By Amb. Anthony Mukwita – 20 Sept 2025
From Rwanda to Gaza: The Tragedy of Repetition
It has become tragically fashionable to mourn genocide after the fact. We light candles, build memorials, and whisper “never again” with trembling lips, only to watch history repeat itself with chilling precision.
From the blood-soaked hills of Rwanda to the bombed-out ruins of Gaza, the world has perfected the art of posthumous regret.
In Rwanda, it took just 100 days for nearly one million souls to be extinguished. Pregnant women were gutted with machetes, their unborn children torn from wombs in a grotesque theatre of ethnic hatred.
Navi Pillay, who presided over trials of those atrocities, now watches Gaza with the same horror. “We saw stomachs ripped open,” she said. “Today, we see fertility clinics bombed.”
The parallel is not poetic, it is painful. In Gaza, Israel has targeted the reproductive capacity of Palestinians, bombing clinics and maternity wards. The UN Commission of Inquiry, led by Pillay and Chris Sidoti, concluded that Israel is committing genocide.
Four of the five acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention have been met. The fifth, imposing measures to prevent births was confirmed when fertility clinics were reduced to rubble.
This is not war. It is annihilation.
The West Bank and Gaza: Where Misery Is Normalized
In the occupied West Bank, the horror continues. Torture, sexual violence, and systematic abuse of detainees have become routine. Children are not spared. The right to health, to safety, to dignity—obliterated. The world watches, tweets, and moves on.
Nearly 100 Palestinians were killed in a single day last week. Over 64,900 have died since October 2023, including more than 19,000 children. These are not statistics. These are futures erased.
And yet, the silence is deafening.
America’s Moral Compass: Missing in Action
Where is the United States—the self-proclaimed moral compass of the world? The mightiest nation on Earth, with the power to call the shots, has chosen complicity over conscience. Its silence is not neutral—it is enabling.
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and countless NGOs have cried genocide.
Even traditional allies—France, UK, Canada, Australia—have begun to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. Germany has suspended arms exports.
The tide is turning. But the question remains: how many more must die before America finds its voice?
Kosovo, Germany, Rwanda: Lessons Unlearned
We didn’t learn from the Holocaust. We didn’t learn from Kosovo. We didn’t learn from Rwanda. Each time, we swore we would. Each time, we failed.
Genocide is not a relic of the past, it is a recurring headline. And the world’s refusal to act is not ignorance, it is indifference.
Zambia: Pipe Dreams without Power
Back home, we speak of economic growth, industrialization, and job creation. But these are pipe dreams without power—literally.
Until Zambia can guarantee 24/7 electricity to households, factories, farms, and mines, our ambitions remain grounded.
You cannot build an economy on blackouts. You cannot attract investment with uncertainty.
And you cannot feed a nation when agro-processing grinds to a halt every time the lights go out.
Electricity is not a luxury—it is a lifeline.
A Call for Peace, Hunger Eradication, and Jobs
The world needs a reset. Not just in Gaza, but everywhere. Peace is not the absence of war it is the presence of justice. Hunger is not inevitable—it is a policy failure. Joblessness is not a statistic—it is a stolen future.
Let us be wise enough to act: now.
Let us be human enough to care: always.
🔍 What to Carry forward and learn from
“Genocide begins with silence and ends with graves.”
“Peace is not a pause between wars—it is a promise kept.”
“A hungry child is not a budget issue—it is a moral failure.”
“Electricity is the heartbeat of development. Without it, we flat-line.”
“You cannot bomb your way to security, nor starve your way to peace.”
“History doesn’t repeat itself. We repeat history.”
Final Word
The world is bleeding. From Gaza to Lusaka, the wounds are different, but the pain is shared. We must stop normalizing misery. We must stop waiting for the dead to teach us lessons the living refuse to learn.
This is not just a column. It is a call.
Let it echo, it’s ‘Mukwita on Point’ at best.
— Amb. Anthony Mukwita
International Relations Analyst & Author
Mukwita on Point
