Francesca Albanese

I mean, when you look at settler colonialism, 500 years of history have been marked by settler colonialism.

European forces, powers, moving from Latin America to North America to Africa,

For what?

For resources.

But eventually what has driven this is private interests.

We think that with the consolidation of states matters have changed, but the reality is that we still live in systems that are driven by economic and financial interests.

which might be okay.

I mean, I'm not advocating for the end of capitalism.

This is not my purpose as a special rapporteur.

It's just that today, my observation in Palestine, and Palestine becomes a mirror or a metaphor to understand the world, is that prophets,

drive us and drives politics more than the need and the urge to stop massacring and slaughtering children.

with all due respect, it's not a politically loaded term.

It's a crime.

It's a legal term.

And excuse me, I mean, the Germans, the Germans, before committing and before leading the genocide of the Jewish people, Roman Sinti, disabled, pursuing this idea of a superior race, had committed another genocide in Namibia.

in modern-day Namibia, the genocide of the Rero and the Nama.

And in fact, genocide is something that has existed in history, the genocide of the Armenian people.

In my lifetime, there has been the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, of the Bosnians in former Yugoslavia, and the Yazidi.

So no, no, genocide is not loaded.

is a crime and should be treated as such.