Leadership Quote by Tony Greig

The bluntness is the point: a working athlete’s voice dropped into the moral wreckage of genocide. Tony Greig isn’t polishing a grand thesis here; he’s testifying in the plain, procedural language of employment and assignment. “I was employed,” “we were investigating,” “we identified,” “I investigated” - the repetition turns responsibility into a chain of custody. It’s not poetry. It’s the sound of someone trying to be accurate, careful, defensible.

That dryness carries subtext. By foregrounding the “business community,” Greig points at a category we’re trained to treat as neutral or even civic-minded: employers, investors, “leaders.” The phrase “leaders of the business community” is almost corporate PR, and that’s exactly why it lands hard when placed beside “genocide.” The collision exposes how atrocity often relies less on fanatics than on respectable intermediaries who keep supply lines moving, launder legitimacy, and convert ideology into logistics.

The choice to end on “two people” narrows the lens from systems to names. It implies evidence, files, interviews, a docket - a world where guilt isn’t a vibe but something you try to prove. Coming from an athlete, it also scrambles expectations about who gets to speak with authority on historical violence. The cultural charge is in that mismatch: a public figure known for sport insisting that the story of genocide includes boardrooms, not just battlefields, and that accountability has to reach beyond the usual villains.