Even if some other mass atrocity crimes, those of Stalin and Mao for a start, have involved even more unbelievably large numbers, none has more fundamentally demeaned our sense of common humanity. No crime in history has been more grotesque than the Nazi Holocaust, with its comprehensively and meticulously organized extermination of six million Jews. The capacity of human beings to perpetrate – or to look the other way when others are perpetrating – the most appalling destruction of the lives, liberty and capacity for any kind of happiness of their fellow human beings seems to know no bounds. Why did it take so long after World War II for the international community to agree that they had the responsibility to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities? It seems like the world said “never again” a number of times before anyone took proactive steps to make this a reality.Īs we look back over the course of human history one of the most depressing, and distressing, realities we have to acknowledge has been our inability to prevent or halt the apparently endlessly recurring horror of mass atrocity crimes – the murder, torture, rape, starvation, expulsion, destruction of property and life opportunities of others for no other reason than their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class or ideology. Bellamy, David Chandler, Rodger Shanahan, Rachel Gerber, Abiodun Williams, Gareth Evans) Weiss, Ramesh Thakur, Mary Ellen O’Connell, Aidan Hehir, Alex J. Republished November 2011 as "The Responsibility to Protect: Challenges & Opportunities in Light of the Libyan Intervention" (contributions by Alex Stark, Thomas G. Home biography publications speeches organisations images The “RtoP” Balance Sheet After LibyaĪlex Stark from e-International Relations interviews Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, 2 September 2011 Interview: The “RtoP” Balance Sheet After Libya
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