Amb. Abrahim M. Bah
IPNEWS-USA: A Liberian student studying in the United States of America has participated in the first ever hosted ‘International Mock Trial on Human Rights’ at the United Nations Headquarters sitting in New York.
Amb. Abrahim M. Bah says, as the only Liberian and Black delegate at the January 31st, 2023 event in New York, it was one of his greatest experiences as a young man.
In a dispatch from the United States, Amb. Bah disclosed that the International Mock Trial on Human Rights is the culmination of a one-year programme organized by The Social Excellence Forum (SEF), with support of the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme for students and young leaders around the world.
The trial brought together about 32 students and young leaders between ages 15-22 from nine (9) different countries around the globe in the courtroom to interrogate the so-called father of Nazi Racial Hygiene, Ardent Nazi Prof. Ernest Rudin in front of high-profile Judges such as Hon. Judge Silvia, Former Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights who served as the Head Judge, Hon. Judge Angelica, President of the International Criminal Court, and Hon. Judge Elyakim, Former Vice President of the Israeli Supreme Court.
The program was live on UN TV.
The young Liberian furthered that he was part of the team that the Judges pronounced as winner at the close of the Trial (prosecution team).
He narrated that during the event, “we spoke against the scandalous program which was executed secretly by Prof. Ernest Rudin”.
According to Amb. Bah, Prof. Rudin was a Psychiatrist, Geneticist, Eugenicist, Racist and Antisemite, and was fully responsible for untold suffering and deaths.
Amb. Bah (with dark glasses) and other students at the UN Mock trial on Human Rights
Prof. Rudin immensely helped to formulate the 1939 Nazi Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases that legalized the forced sterilization of some 400,000 Germans between 1934 and 1939.
Rüdin helped to implement the so-called “T4 programme,” — the first mass murder committed under National Socialism.
He was directly involved in the killing of children in order to conduct post-mortem research.
Research had it that because of a loophole in the law, Rüdin was never prosecuted for his crimes, and he later died of natural causes in Munich in 1952.
Amb. Abrahim M. Bah, who’s currently on a study trip to the US believes, International Mock Trial of such a landmark case was a great achievement for his beloved country, Liberia, because he was the first Black to have participated as Litigator or Attorney in such an event at the UN headquarters.
Moreover, Bah explained that credit to his outstanding performances during the Trial, he was promised by the organizers that they would love to work with several Liberians on the upcoming Trial and in the future.
This, according to him, would be a significant pathway for young leaders and students in Liberia to participate in a Trial and speak at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Amb. Bah is reading an Associate Degree in the US at the Kirkwood Community College in Iowa State.
Bah believes in Education, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship, Humanitarian, Gender Equity, Voluntarism, Peace Building, Moulding Youths MIND Positively, etc…
Before departing for studies, Bah served in several capacities including Deputy Financial Secretary at the Montserrado County Student Union, Ambassador for The African Dream in Turkey to Liberia 2021, Project Manager at The moulding Minds And Changing Attitudes Initiatives, General Secretary at The Fullah League, General Secretary at Liberia Fullah Youths Association, among others.
