ECH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Humanitarian Intervention, Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Kenneth Roth
21 Jun 2018
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Module 7 - The UN Security Council’s Role in Protecting Human Rights
The New Interventionism – Promise and Reality
-R2P – when states are unable or unwilling to prevent or stop mass atrocities, the UN has
a duty to step in by authorizing the involvement of foreign troops
-R2P undermines independence of states – gives west a reason to intervene
-5 UNSC has powers
-R2P was adopted by all states in 2005
-Suffering of innocence as a pretext to pursue self-interest abroad?
-Contemporary humanitarian intervention must be IMPARTIAL
-Today, this is not the case
1. Partiality in civilians that get protection.
ď‚·No calls for foreign intervention
ď‚·Intervention to protect civilians was never considered in SL Army vs. LTTE where
war crimes were committed by both sides; 10,000 civilians (definitely more)
were killed in the last 5 months in 2009
ď‚·Condemnation, sanctions, international criminal prosecutions are launch or
considered
ď‚·Atrocities should spark R2P concerns
2. Dubious legality
ď‚·Syria: Russia and China are blocking action by the SC
ď‚·However, people still wanted to intervene (Obama in 2013)
ď‚·To do it legally without SC approval
ď‚·Better to have R2P than not
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Document Summary
Module 7 - the un security council"s role in protecting human rights. R2p when states are unable or unwilling to prevent or stop mass atrocities, the un has a duty to step in by authorizing the involvement of foreign troops. R2p undermines independence of states gives west a reason to intervene. R2p was adopted by all states in 2005. Today, this is not the case: partiality in civilians that get protection. Intervention to protect civilians was never considered in sl army vs. ltte where war crimes were committed by both sides; 10,000 civilians (definitely more) were killed in the last 5 months in 2009. Condemnation, sanctions, international criminal prosecutions are launch or considered. Atrocities should spark r2p concerns: dubious legality. Syria: russia and china are blocking action by the sc. However, people still wanted to intervene (obama in 2013) No basis of human rights intervention in un treaties.
