Wimbledon's a bit like Bucha - parks, nice houses, prosperous people. What Russians did to Bucha 🎥👇🏽It's what Russians will do to @Wimbledon, its brand, & given a chance, its wombles, village & villagers. Russia had lists of Bucha residents to kill - they killed them. 1/14
⚡️If Russia hadn't murdered Ukrainian athlete Dariia Kurdel while she was training for the Olympics, Dariia would have enjoyed seeing Russia lose the #Olympics sport of threatening genocide. No other country was competing. Threatening genocide breaches international law. 2/14
@Wimbledon's 2022 stance was correct: NO way of enabling Russian or Belarussian athletes to participate, without the Russian state using such participation as a means of promoting its "Z" brand. UN Commission has now established👇🏽Russia as liable for the Crime of Aggression. 3/14
Let's decode @Olympics troll that participation in sport is a human right. Ukrainian international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht's vision for human rights as UNIVERSAL as a matter of LAW was accepted as LAW by 1949. 4/14
⚡️Russia wins #Olympics sport of threatening genocide against the most countries. No other country was competing. Mainly because threatening genocide breaches multiple international laws. 5/14
2022: @Wimbledon helped us get Russian propaganda is THE plague of our age. Disinfo's not mere words. Othering prepared the ground for genocide against 🇺🇦. Against us. Threatening nuclear war against England, the West, NATO,... That's unlawful Hate Speech. 6/14
Russia's unlawful war of aggression and genocide has killed 200,000 souls since Wimbledon's fantastic 2022 decision. #Wimbledon banned athletes from states which would use athletes' participation to promote genocide. "Z" promotes 666% MORE genocide in 2023 than in 2022! 7/14
Human Rights as a matter of law were accepted as LAW after the holocaust & Nazi/Soviet occupation of Ukraine killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians 1941-1945. Only States have a duty to protect human rights, not @Olympics. ALL human rights are subject to derogation,... 8/14
Even the Right to Life is subject to derogations delineated by law, such as the Right to Self Defence. Most Human Rights in Euro Convention of HR (which no longer binds Russia, though Russia IS bound by the customary intl law of human rights) can be derogated from on... 9/14
certain grounds. Russia's "Z" symbol is a direct and public incitement to genocide. That is the "Z" symbols meaning. ANY Russian Olympian will attract the use of that sign in connection with @Olympics. @Olympics and states in which Olympics work have a duty to prevent this. 10/14
@Olympics cynically argues it would be discriminatory to exclude "Z" magnet Ruschist-state supporting athletes (advertising hoardings for genocide). Discrimination is lawful when it serves higher order aims, like preventing public and direct incitement for genocide. 11/14
EU & Germany democratically decided Russia's war of aggression is so unusual as to justify respectively €70b and €15b on arming & supporting Ukraine. @Olympics needs to adopt the EU's perspective as the rationale for excluding "Z" magnetic genocide-advertising Ruschists. 12/14
⚡️Olympics Isis Compromise.
After Isis complained about "victimisation" and "discrimination" #Olympics and #Wimbledon will allow #Isis athletes to compete under a Black Flag. "No skull n' crossbones though," a Wimbledon spokesperson told us. 13/14
Discrimination on normally protected grounds is lawful where public safety, public policy & other public goods are served. Enabling Russian state to exploit its athletes' participation in global sports promotes the crimes of aggression and genocide - the ultimate crimes. 14/14
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