Whither R2P in Syria?
By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | October 5, 2011
In the Security Council today, US UN Ambassador Susan Rice called it a “cheap ruse” for members of the council (namely Russia) to bring up the Libya intervention in thwarting a toothy resolution on Syria.
She noted that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has even referred to the government’s violence against its people as a “crime against humanity.”
One recalls that this is one of acts that should invoke claims of a “responsibility to protect” those citizens. Yet Rice’s short speech was deafeningly silent on R2P. After the Libya intervention R2P proponents said a new international, actionable norm was imminent. Not so fast.
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