On February 28, 2026, U.S. war criminals launched several advanced Tomahawk missiles at a girls’ school in Minab, killing more than 160 people, the majority of them children. Following this massacre, and at the request of Iran’s criminal ruling authorities, following this massacre, and at the request of Iran’s criminal ruling authorities, the Human Rights Council of the den of thieves (the United Nations) held a session on March 27, 2026, to address the bombing.

The fundamental question, however, is this: why have these institutions—once heavily promoted as defenders of human rights—been effectively sidelined in the face of such massacres, ongoing wars around the world, and similar atrocities, no longer playing the prominent role they once did? From this perspective, the answer is clear: the den of thieves (the United Nations) and its affiliated bodies have, in practice, lost their former function and relevance.

After the end of the Second Imperialist War, the victorious powers established in 1945 the den of thieves known as the United Nations to manage, contain, and legitimize imperialist rivalries. The purpose of founding this den of thieves was to regulate relations among the great powers and to control conflicts within a manageable framework. During the Cold War, this den of thieves was, to some extent, able to establish rules governing relations among these powers, and thus retained a certain degree of function and relevance.

However, with the end of the Cold War, this balance collapsed. The United States emerged as the global policeman and, in order to maintain its hegemony, launched a series of wars and military interventions. The United States and its allies justified these wars and interventions under the banners of ‘defending human rights,’ ‘upholding human dignity,’ and ‘combating terrorism.’

Today, however, even adherence to those same bourgeois international rules—or appeals to ‘human rights’—has effectively lost its relevance. The den of thieves, which once played a role in regulating these rules, has been increasingly sidelined. In its place, the naked logic of a ‘powerful and fearsome military’ now prevails. Changing global conditions have led the United States and other imperialist powers to conclude that there is no longer any need to adhere to international rules.

In such a situation, not only is there no longer any need for bourgeois pretenses, but within this emerging order—an order of chaos—the den of thieves has effectively been reduced to a powerless institution. The result of this process is the rule of the ‘law of the jungle,’ where force alone is decisive.

During Donald Trump’s first term, in 2018, the United States withdrew from the Human Rights Council, but in 2021, the Biden administration returned it to the body. Today, U.S. rulers openly employ terms such as ‘fearsome military,’ ‘lethal army,’ ‘deadly,’ and ‘ruthless’ in their war rhetoric, making virtually no reference to ‘human rights’ or ‘democracy.’ Under these conditions, the den of thieves, and in particular its Human Rights Council, has been marginalized more than ever, and its role has been reduced to formal, powerless sessions.

Within this framework, Volker Türk, the High Commissioner for Human Rights of this body, called—through blatant deception—for an investigation into the bombing of the Minab girls’ school; as if we are dealing with an exceptional, unusual incident and a neutral institution is pursuing it. In reality, such posturing is an attempt to conceal the fact that the den of thieves has always been part of the crisis-management mechanism of global capitalism—a mechanism that has now lost its former function and relevance.

A notable aspect of the Human Rights Council’s performance is that the High Commissioner for Human Rights assigns responsibility for the investigation to the very forces accused of carrying out the attack, and then asks them to complete it ‘as soon as possible’ and make the results public. This is the height of deception: the responsibility for the investigation lies with:

“The onus is on those who carried out the attack to investigate it promptly, impartially, transparently and thoroughly, to determine the facts and lay the basis for accountability.”[1]

The Islamic bourgeois foreign minister described this massacre in his video speech as a “war crime” and a “crime against humanity,” claiming that the United States carried out a calculated attack. He emphasized that, given the precision and advancement of military technologies, this attack cannot be considered accidental.

Before continuing the discussion, it is important to stress one point: it is an undeniable fact that this massacre is unquestionably a “crime against humanity.” However, making this claim coming from a representative of the ignoble Islamic bourgeoisie—whose own record is filled with oppression, killings, and violence—carries a deeply contradictory meaning.

In other words, we are faced with a situation in which a state accused of wrongdoing accuses another state of a crime that it itself has committed in its own history. The regime in Iran has also consolidated its power on the basis of bloodshed, killings, and large-scale executions—particularly in the early years after its establishment, including the dark period from June 1981 to March 1982, when waves of repression and state‑sponsored executions claimed thousands of lives, including many young adults and even adolescents.

The most painful moment of this circus of criminal assemblies came when, from a distance and through the translation provided by the den of thieves (the United Nations), a grieving mother spoke—a mother who had lost two children in the attack on the school. With profound sorrow, she recounted her final moments with her children and then added, “No mother is ever prepared to hear the words: Your child will not come back.

These words reflected the profound sorrow of a mother whose world had collapsed in an instant. That grieving mother, that suffering human being—a mother whose life had been turned into a living hell—called, amid this official display, for the truth to be revealed by the warmongers. But to whom was she directing this request? To the very warmongers whose work conceals the truth and justifies killings, to the very forces whose actions produce nothing but death and destruction.

Yet that grieving mother, that human broken by pain, that heartbroken mother, implored the criminals not to let this tragedy be forgotten. She identified the United States and Israel as the agents of this suffering and said:

“I call on the Human Rights Council, its members, responsible institutions, and all those who have the duty and the ability to protect the lives of children, not to allow this tragedy to be forgotten.”[2]

Contrary to the deception propagated by war criminals, the bombing of the school was not an irresponsible accident; rather, it was part of a systematic pattern of war and the killing of civilians in imperialist conflicts. Systematic violence has its roots in the brutal structure of capitalism; it is this system that reproduces barbarity and turns death into a tool of politics and domination.

We are publishing the statements of a former U.S. intelligence officer—who served for 17 years in the U.S. military as an intelligence and counterterrorism officer and held a “Top Secret” clearance, along with polygraph certification—as an appendix. This officer clearly explains the course of the massacre based on her knowledge and intelligence experience, demonstrating that the attack on the school was not a mistake, but a fully deliberate act.

It is important to emphasize that the publication of this appendix is solely intended to clarify the course of the massacre from the perspective of an experienced U.S. counterterrorism officer and in no way represents a final conclusion regarding responsibility. Contrary to the expectations and humanitarian wishes of this former officer, the deadly warships will not return to the United States for the time being, because their very existence depends on massacre and slaughter. These warships embody the brutality of capitalism and the lethal nature of the capitalist system on a global scale.

The school massacre was neither a mistake nor the result of negligence; the former U.S. intelligence officer’s statements demonstrate that this attack was entirely deliberate. This incident is not an isolated event, but part of a broader pattern of organized killings in imperialist wars. As of the writing of this article, the number of children killed in other bombings is nearly equal to the number of children massacred at the school. Can anyone believe that all of these deaths were accidental? If the initial massacre had been random, the killing of children would not have continued in this way.

In this context, the call for an investigation may appear humane and rational on the surface, but in practice, it limits responsibility for the brutality and blood-soaked system of capitalism to a specific incident or, at most, to a single state. This has been part of the proud tradition of the communist left movement, which has consistently emphasized that all states—including those with the façade of bourgeois democracy—were complicit in the crimes of Auschwitz, and later extended this analysis to all massacres. In the case of the school massacre, all capitalist states share responsibility, and their hands are stained with blood.[3]

Contrary to the deception propagated by the right and left tendencies of capital, the communist left has consistently emphasized that in the era of imperialism, all bourgeois tendencies—whether democratic or dictatorial, peace-loving or warmongering—are counter-revolutionary, reactionary, and hostile to the working class, regardless of their political façade. Claims by some of these tendencies—that this war is illegal because the Security Council did not authorize it, that it was initiated by Trump and Netanyahu, or even that the U.S. Congress did not approve it—along with various conspiracy theories, all serve a single purpose: to reduce the real nature of these wars to the level of warmongering leaders and to absolve capitalism of responsibility. This is an important point in the communist left tradition, which maintains that these wars are not the product of “mad” or warmongering leaders, but the result of the capitalist system itself.

Every civilian who has been slaughtered in these wars—whether in Iran, Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or elsewhere—stands as a symbol of a crime against humanity, and all capitalist states are responsible and complicit. These massacres are not accidental mistakes, but deliberate and organized killings carried out by capitalism.

The only real response to imperialist massacres is to turn these wars into a war against capitalism itself. Ultimately, class war, through the global overthrow of capitalism, can eliminate the material conditions that give rise to military tensions and imperialist wars and bring about a world worthy of humanity.

Down With the Imperialist War!

Long Live the War Between the Classes!

Joseph

March 30, 2026

Appendex:

Josephine Guilbeau, former Intelligence officer, talks about US Crimes

My name is Josephine Gilbo. I am a former intelligence officer. I spent 17 years in the U.S. Army. I’ve held assignments as an intelligence officer at the DIA, ODNI, NSA, and DHS. And of course, as an intelligence officer in the army, I’ve held a top secret clearance with a polygraph just to give you an idea of my access and experience when it comes to these assignments.

One of my many duties along the way has been counter terrorism. I was a counterterrorism officer in the US Army.  And I want to give you the definition of terrorism as we use it here in the United States.

Terrorism is the pre-meditated use of violence or threat of violence against civilians or property to induce fear, coercion or intimidation aimed at government or societies to achieve political, religious or ideological objectives.

Given this information, we’re going to focus back now to the bombing of Minab. 165 little girls were killed by United States took from a United States vessel in the area of operation. A modern Tomahawk missile is equipped with onboard cameras. Realtime targeting imagery.

 Satellite imagery is constantly collected by several intelligence agencies, several countries in real time.

 Let’s talk about what that satellite imagery would show of the Minob little girl school murals.  The entire school was surrounded by colorful children, painting, flower, bright colored murals surrounded this school.  And it was without a doubt a school if you looked at it through satellite imagery.

 It was without a doubt a school when you looked at it through the onboard camera of the Tomahawk missile. It was clear.

Now let’s talk about when the attack started on Iran. 10:00 a.m. At 1000 a.m., Israel along with the United States began attacking Iran. By 10:20, the staff at Minab School began evacuating the children.

 Strike one hit the school.  The kids moved to the prayer room. Strike two hit the prayer room 163 kids dead. Strike three hit nearby.

Multiple sources, including intelligence reports, regional sources, and U.S. officials are required to confirm a target for the US Navy and military operations to ensure accuracy and reduce errors. This is how it works.

 This is how it worked. That day, NBC News reports USS Brunets, a guided missile destroyer, shot the tomahawk. Commander Lelay R. Tate, executive officer Jeffrey E. York commanded USS Brunets who shot a tomahawk and killed 165 little girls.

 After this was done, the same destroyer conducted a replenishment at sea with USNS Henry Kaiser back ready to fire. March 4th, March 10th, and March 18th. They replenish their firearms. They replenish their weapons.

 No pause for review. No pause for investigation. No calls for this command to appear in front of Congress and report to the American people why we just bombed a school knowing it was a school. Nothing. Silence.

 Lies. Excuses. Who are the terrorists?  Who are the bad guys in this story? This is the story of our timeline.  By our own definition of terrorism, and I can say this as a former counterterrorist officer, we are the terrorists.

 We are the bad guys. Now, what’s going to happen next? Our U.S. military is about to die. A blood bath. They are at the bottom of the totem pole. That’s the reality of it in this whole scheme. They’re the pawn, slaves to the elite, the Epstein class. And the hardest thing about everything I’m saying right now is none of us up here can save them.

 No matter what we say today, no matter if we cry, no matter if we yell, we will not save them. But I’m going to try. I call on USS Tripoli Commander, Captain Patrick J. Sullivan. Stop the ship now.

Turn the ship around now. You are going to be complicit in war crimes and the death of our brothers and sisters of Marines of your Marines. Their blood and death will be on your hands. Captain J. Patrick J. Sullivan, stop the ship now. Turn it around. Turn the USS Tripoli.

Notes:

[1] United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.

[2] BBC.

[3]Switzerland is often described as a peace-loving country—a nation that did not participate in the two most recent world wars and is not a member of NATO. But this image is misleading. The very country hailed as the most peace-loving in the world has recently granted permission for three U.S. flights to pass through its airspace: “The Federal Council approved three overflight requests from the USA in connection with the war between Israel and the USA against Iran.”

 

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