There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended 12 years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission to the organisation. He will pay no price for his many crimes against humanity: the name of the game now is not retribution but 'rehabilitation'.
There is no such word as "auto-genocide", but that would describe what Mr Assad has done to his own country over the past 12 years in order to stay in power. Half a million people were killed in the fighting or in his torture chambers, and roughly half of Syria's pre-war population of 21 million have been driven from their homes.
Some of those refugees are still in the country, mostly in parts that Mr Assad's army has not yet reconquered, but half are actually living in neighbouring countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Large parts of all of Syria's big cities have been reduced to rubble, and reconstruction has not even begun yet.
