Large numbers of human beings are subjected to the mercy of state oppression and civil wars. This is the undeniable reality, and these are the issues we are currently battling. The international community has a controversial history when faced with the responsibility to slow down or prevent atrocities . In the 20th and early 21st centuries, states failed to perform their responsibilities as stated in the 1948 Genocide Convention, throughout the time civilians were betrayed by their leaders, despite declaring to “never again” allow such crimes to happen. In 2001 after the Rwandan Genocide and in the light of the success of the 1999 Kosovo intervention, at the United Nations (UN) 2005 World Summit, the international community finally had the …show more content…
It only applies in circumstances where communities are either under threat of or suffering from specified crimes. There are many threats which the R2P does not apply, these include, grave threats to human security, disease, conflict, civil strife, harmful state policies or other violent situations that do not meet the threshold of these most grievous offences. The aim of the R2P according paragraph 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome is to prevent four specific crimes as stated by the ICISS which are: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic …show more content…
The reason being that it is rather a nearly impossible task for the Azanian government to protect its citizens from atrocities while simultaneously being in a civil war. Therefore, not only does the situation in Azania call for the international community to intervene, but it also calls for military intervention. By examining the amount of murders specifically to Christian and Muslims one can conclude that that the first criterion for military intervention has been