Thanks for that closing paragraph that echoes Naledi Pandor’s call for accountability and reform of the Security Council safeguarding civilians from the legacy control of the settler colonial powers legislated when the UN was formed and at half its current size. Loot meaning plunder from “war” itself a sanitized word for atrocities comes into English from Hindi in the early 19th century. It’s Sanskrit origins goes back to the settler colonial epic Mahabharata that recounts the genocide of forest tribes to plunder their jewels.
Thanks for that closing paragraph that echoes Naledi Pandor’s call for accountability and reform of the Security Council safeguarding civilians from the legacy control of the settler colonial powers legislated when the UN was formed and at half its current size. Loot meaning plunder from “war” itself a sanitized word for atrocities comes into English from Hindi in the early 19th century. It’s Sanskrit origins goes back to the settler colonial epic Mahabharata that recounts the genocide of forest tribes to plunder their jewels.