Justice should be colour blind. So why is it served for Ukraine but not the Congolese?

Twenty years after the supposed end of conflict in the DRC, people in Goma, on the border with Rwanda, denounce "Rwandan aggression”. Photograph: Michel Lunanga/AFP/Getty Images

The head of the World Health Authority, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has suggested that racism is partly to blame for the lack of international interest in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray state.

At the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague last month, shortly after Russian missiles struck two Ukrainian community centres, killing three children and 17 adults, the international criminal court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, urged world leaders: “In all situations across the world where international crimes are committed, we should feel the same urgency for action and for cooperation.”