UNITED NATIONS, May 14 2010 (Reuters) Zimbabwe has now regained its place as one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, a short 4 years after Robert Mugabe was red-carded. The new leader has unsurprisingly adhered to all of the UN's economic recovery and human rights suggestions.
Here is the suggested format.
The UN creates a system that behaves as much like a referee in a soccer match.
If a country misbehaves (this may be violation of human rights, declaration of war or even gross economic mismanagement) then the leader of the country is given a yellow card.
The decision to give the yellow card is decided by a vote in the UN (say 80% majority).
The yellow card serves as a warning, but also has suggestions of how to remedy the problem as well as the offer of aid to implement a solution.
If there is no improvement in the situation after a specified period of time then a second, sterner yellow card is issued, again with the offer of solutions and aid.
Upon failure of the second yellow card to remedy the situation, a red card is issued. The red card simply means that the leader of the offending government must immediately surrender himself for a mandatory prison term or his life is forfeit.
If the leader refuses to surrender then several things will happen.
Firstly a large bounty is placed on the leader's head.
Secondly a UN assassination team (1) is put into action. Their role is to kill the offending leader with as little collateral damage and as little danger to themselves as possible. This may involve such techniques as snipers, smart bombs, poison, anything.
The assassination may take some time as people who have a death sentence taken out on them tend to get a bit shy, but the UN has time. Also the bounty may make their intervention unnecessary as someone close to them will take matters into their own hands. There is no provision for occupation of the country, this has been shown not to work. (Iraq)
So what happens when the leader is eliminated and there is now a power vacuum in the government? Their position is taken by someone else, it is not the UN's responsibility to decide who or meddle deeply in any of the politics, although they can offer suggestions for a suitable replacement.
The new leader is informed of the situation, offered advice and aid and all cards are revoked. If the new leader fails to take steps to remedy the situation a yellow card is issued and the cycle starts again.
Eventually they will learn.
(1) The Assassination team would be a small highly equipped and, highly trained and highly effective, with support from U. N. member countries.
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