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The new United Nations tribunal that was formed – nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo – became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute perpetrators of Rwanda’s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood-diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia.
The ICTY ruled the Srebrenica massacre to be an act of genocide.
He is one of five former senior Khmer Rouge leaders who will be made to answer for their roles during Pol Pot’s genocide, in which an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished.
When my mother and I journeyed home to reunite with relatives who had survived the genocide, S-21 (also known as Tuol Sleng) was among our first stops.
Kouchner’s stance also set the stage for the United Nations’ adoption of the still more interventionist doctrine of the “responsibility to protect” – a call for outside military force to prevent genocide or widespread human rights abuses – during the secretary-generalship of Kofi Annan.
Grave human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing, and genocide would no longer be permitted.
In the wake of the UN’s failures to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and Kosovo in the 1990’s, Kofi Annan worked with others to persuade governments to recognize a new responsibility to protect endangered peoples.
The world has largely stood by in the face of genocide.
Nor should the international neglect that has for too long allowed the Darfur genocide to go unpunished recur when it comes to sustaining the quest for peace in Sudan.
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 has committed genocide and other atrocities in Darfur, where about 400,000 people have died.
And today – even in Europe – rulers use theatrical tools to arouse the kind of blind nationalism that leads to war, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, and genocide.
The International Criminal Court - a tribunal with potential worldwide jurisdiction over genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity - is built on a comparable catalytic theory.
Thus, China threatens to veto any resolution of the United Nations Security Council that might impose sanctions against the Arab ruling class in the Sudanese government, whose troops and government-allied militias are perpetrating genocide against Sudan’s black citizens, using Chinese-made helicopter gunships based at airstrips maintained by Chinese oil companies.
Yet, the motto of the half-century since, at least insofar as the world's response to genocide is concerned, might better be stated as "Again and again."
Indeed, whenever genocide begins, the world's usual response - especially that of Western leaders - is to turn away.
That price, however, is also exacted from the rest of us, because when extremists are allowed to wipe out their neighbors, the victimized often become radicalized and militarized; they look to settle old scores not only against the perpetrators of genocide, but against those who abetted them.
Even when genocide remains contained within borders, the violence eventually tends to spill over into neighboring states, igniting regional wars, undermining global stability, and eventually costing billions as the world starts to tend to the humanitarian byproducts of slaughter.
With genocide a real looming possibility in Burundi, Chechnya, Indonesia, Sudan, and elsewhere, what is to be done?
America probably lacks the capacity - and the will - to intervene militarily wherever the threat of genocide arises.
Had America deployed troops to Rwanda early in that genocide, as innumerable critics (themselves silent at the time) argue retrospectively, dozens, maybe even hundreds, of Rwandans would likely have perished as the US intervened.
Why focus on the prospect of further genocides now, when the threat of genocide seems secondary, say, to the War on Terror?
Genocide prevention is a burden that will not be carried unless it is shared.
The world's leaders need to declare prevention of genocide not only in the interest of mankind in general, but in their own national interests.
That logic is what led Bill Clinton’s administration, following the failure of US intervention in Somalia in 1993, to fail to act the following year to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, which in retrospect could have been halted with quite limited action.
That success is twofold: the tribunal’s achievements with respect to the former Yugoslavia, and its impact worldwide on ending impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Both the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw chaotic competition among NGOs.
The wake-up call for most NGOs came after the Rwandan genocide, when hundreds of small organizations tried to set up ad hoc operations in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.
It is believed that the Armenian genocide inspired the Nazis in their plans for the extermination of Jews.
It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey’s southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide.
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