The Responsibility to Protect Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All .

There is the humanitarian mission to protect civilian populations in Iraq and Syria from mass atrocity crimes.

The moral argument that the veto should not be used in cases of mass atrocity crimes is overwhelming.

Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.

And the primary emphasis of the entire R2P enterprise should continue to be prevention of mass atrocity crimes both their occurrence and their recurrence.

But, on the issue of mass atrocity crimes where the international community has long had good reason for shame real optimism is now justified.

In terms of getting serious about saying never again to mass atrocity crimes, that is about as positive a development as anyone could hope for.

And worst of all is to be perceived as being soft on those who, like Egypt s current military rulers, commit mass atrocity crimes against their own citizens.

But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.

I spent the better part of a decade looking at American responses to mass atrocity and genocide.

And, despite the United Nations Security Council s paralysis over Syria, UN General Assembly member states made clear their continuing overwhelming acceptance of the responsibility to protect those at risk of mass atrocity crimes.

PARIS Back in 2001, France floated a proposal that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) should voluntarily refrain from using their veto power when dealing with mass atrocity crimes.

BEIJING Would China ever be willing to host an international policy discussion about the conditions that would legitimize invading another country to stop genocide or other mass atrocity crimes from being committed within its borders?

Mass deportation and prolonged forcible transfer are crimes against humanity.

The United States action is completely consistent with the principles of the international responsibility to protect (R2P) people at risk of mass atrocity crimes, which was embraced unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005.

In 2005, on the UN s 60th anniversary, the General Assembly, convening at head of state and government level, unanimously endorsed the concept of states responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.

But everyone understands that the alternative to Security Council cooperation is a return to the bad old days of Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo either total inaction in the face of mass atrocity crimes, or action outlawed by the UN Charter.

There is a desperate need to re establish consensus on how to address atrocity crimes so extreme that they may require a military response.

One response is that it is almost impossible to find any such genuinely high minded rationale for any veto ever cast in a mass atrocity situation.

Advocates of the French position want these countries to forswear their veto when a clear majority supports proposed action to mitigate the risk of a mass atrocity crime.

On several occasions since 1945, we have witnessed instances of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

There can be no better demonstration of good international citizenship than a country s willingness to act when it has the capacity to prevent or avert a mass atrocity crime.

In situations of mass atrocity, and when all other means are exhausted, the Security Council has the responsibility to act without hesitation, with authority, and in an effective way.

And I'd like to start by sharing with you one moment that to me sums up what there is to know about American and democratic responses to mass atrocity.

Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday.

No state that aspires to win the support or cooperation of others can afford to be seen to be comfortable with unambiguous double standards. And worst of all is to be perceived as being soft on those who, like Egypt s current military rulers, commit mass atrocity crimes against their own citizens.

When such means are not sufficient, the Security Council has the responsibility to take action under the Charter, with authority, with efficiency and without hesitation in situations of mass atrocity.

Taken together, they offer reason for confidence that it may be possible to recreate international consensus, so long missing in Syria, about how to deal with the hardest mass atrocity cases.

States should consider the creation of effective procedures to deal with crimes committed on a large scale and mass torts.

Renewed consensus on how to implement R2P in hard cases may come too late to help in Syria. But everyone understands that the alternative to Security Council cooperation is a return to the bad old days of Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo either total inaction in the face of mass atrocity crimes, or action outlawed by the UN Charter.

The police atrocity was caught on camera and uploaded to the Dianuke.org site.

Atrocity is a German heavy metal band from Ludwigsburg that formed in 1985.

Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity?

The declaration pointed out The mass deportations, murders and enslavements committed in the context of the acts of aggression by Stalinism and Nazism fall into the category of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He investigated the most sensational crimes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which received wide coverage in the mass media.

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She is now ten (right) and has no memory at all of the atrocity

In July, the European Union again suffered the horror of a major terrorist atrocity.

We paid solemn tribute to the millions of innocent victims of that unspeakable atrocity.

And I thought, after all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

I and many others hailed the agreement to intervene in Libya as the coming of age of the responsibility to protect ( R2P ) principle, unanimously embraced by the world s governments in 2005. Its core idea countering centuries of treating sovereignty almost as a license to kill is that states must protect their own people from genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.

It is too late now for non military tools of coercion to have much effect, although Security Council threats of International Criminal Court prosecution for atrocity crimes including any use of chemical weapons must remain on the table .

The indictment describes brutal crimes mass murders, rapes, and the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people carried out systematically in the Guatemalan highlands.

The United Nations is thus duty bound to protect civilians from crimes against humanity, including mass violations of human rights, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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