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Governments ought not to be allowed to massacre their own people.
And weak governments should not be allowed to permit massacres to take place on their own territory even if they are not themselves carrying out the massacre.
The massacre of civilians (including many children) in Gaza last summer, the barbarity of ISIS, the murder of rabbis at a Jerusalem synagogue, and the terrorist attack in Ottawa last October – all convey a simple truth: violence is contagious.
Many of those who arrived first at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing or the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris had not received the physical training for such eventualities, nor were they emotionally prepared to cover stories where they would be exposed to that degree of trauma.
Indeed, Turkey has been offering logistical support to the Islamic State, even as it has enabled the group’s murderous members to massacre thousands of civilian Kurds and Yazidis in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey’s doorstep.
Since the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, however, not a single major democratic reform initiative has been implemented.
In July of that year, Robert S. Ford, the US ambassador to Syria, was sent to the Sunni town of Hama, where Assad’s father had ordered a massacre 30 years earlier.
Moreover, the growing sense of insecurity after the Nice attack on July 14 – the third major terrorist massacre in France in 18 months – plays into Le Pen’s hands.
Mladic, whose troops carried out atrocities throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina – including the massacre of thousands of Muslim civilians at Srebrenica in 1995 – is the most significant war-crimes suspect still at large since former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic’s arrest in Belgrade and extradition to The Hague in 2008.
It stopped an imminent massacre in Libya in 2011 by agreeing (at least at the outset) that the internationally agreed “responsibility to protect” justified military action.
Likewise, the EU has failed to give adequate support to Georgia, or to impose appropriate sanctions on Uzbekistan for last year’s massacre at Andijon.
Out of this massacre, however, the tribunal and foreign-backed war-crimes courts in Bosnia and Serbia have delivered the international justice effort’s most significant achievement to date.
The ICTY ruled the Srebrenica massacre to be an act of genocide.
After a particularly horrible massacre in 1996, a new prime minister, John Howard, declared that enough was enough.
Yet the US still refuses to act, even after this year’s string of shocking incidents: the massacre in a movie theatre in Colorado, an attack on a Sikh community in Milwaukee, another on a shopping mall in Oregon, and many more before the ruthless slaughter of first graders and school staff in Newtown.
Would they still be able to choose between attending a film about the massacre in Beijing and celebrating – or pretending to celebrate – the CCP’s rise?
The people of Hong Kong continue to confront bravely the Goliath that threatens their values, even holding June vigils to honor the victims of the Beijing massacre – something that no mainland group would be permitted to do.
For example, rather than sustain trade sanctions against China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the US decided instead to integrate the country into global institutions.
The snake-keeper’s deepening troubles were exemplified by the recent massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar by militants no longer under the control of Pakistan’s generals.
The Peshawar massacre was not the first time that the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism became a terror victim.
Those who believe that the Peshawar massacre might serve as a wakeup call to the Pakistani military should ask why the generals have ignored hundreds of earlier wakeup calls.
At some point, the international community may have to intervene to prevent or mitigate such a massacre.
The Syrian Sectarian DelusionPRINCETON – As Syria’s 18-month-old rebellion has grown increasingly violent – exemplified by the recent massacre of rural villagers by the Syrian military and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad – long-standing sectarian divisions have become more pronounced.
The Hama massacre is often cited as an example of Syrian sectarianism.
In fact, much of the Syrian elite was implicated in suppressing Islamist forces in Hama, including Sunnis like the recent defector Nawaf al-Fares, the former Syrian ambassador to Iraq, who reportedly commanded government forces during the massacre.
Responsibility While ProtectingNEW YORK – Ten months ago, the United Nations Security Council, with no dissent, authorized the use of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya.
I came back from this trip with one simple belief: you can massacre people, but you can never kill their desire for freedom.
The Chinese government must acknowledge that the 1989 massacre was a crime against the Chinese people as a first step towards justice, national reconciliation, and true stability.
Finally, an independent criminal tribunal must be set up to investigate the June Fourth massacre, and those found responsible for the killings and other atrocities, including former Premier Li Peng, must be indicted and brought to trial without impunity.
Similarly, in Pakistan, the Peshawar massacre last month has revealed how much more must be done to protect schools and children’s future.
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