Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
Justice (R) K.M.A.
Samdani
Chairman, ACPF (Pakistan)
There are three categories of
criminals:
a) individuals
b) organizations
and c) States.
The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of the world
in general and that of Asia in particular to the States' criminality
which is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century to
the man's sense of justice.
A State can, among others, commit three kinds of crimes:
(i) Crimes within the State boundaries ______ killing innocent
people because of their faith, ethnicity or similar reasons.
(ii) Crimes outside the State boundaries ______ killing innocent
people on one pretext or another.
Even a modern day war is a criminal act ______ waging war is
in fact an act of terrorism.
(iii) Economic enslavement of poor countries by the prosperous
ones.
Instances of such crimes abound. The first two categories are
getting recognition as crimes against humanity although not much
has been done so far to contain those crimes. And those who have
(unilaterally) assumed the role of policing the world are neither
impartial nor self-less.
The third category, however, is yet to gain recognition as a
crime. Unless such recognition is conferred upon the acts of
economic exploitation, not much is likely to be done against
it. First of all world-opinion needs to be mobilized in this
behalf. No one gets rich (individual, organization or Sate) except
at the expense of another. Therefore, the more prosperous are
under a moral obligation to help the less fortunate. The former
do not possess the right to exploit the latter.
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