Reforming the international law of humanitarian intervention

摘要: The need for reform deficiency of existing law NATO intervention in Kosovo (1999) is only the most recent a series illegal interventions which plausible moral justifications can be given. Others include India's East Pakistan response to Pakistan's massive human rights violations there (1971), Vietnam's war against Pol Pot's genocidal regime Cambodia (1978), and Tanzania's overthrow Idi Amin's murderous rule Uganda (1979). Without commenting on what dominant motives intervenors were, it accurate say that each case military action was aimed at preventing or stopping violations. All could qualify as instances humanitarian intervention, may defined follows: threat use force across state borders by (or group states) ending widespread grave fundamental individuals other than its own citizens, without permission within whose territory applied. In all three 1970s was, according preponderance international legal opinion, violation law. None self-defense none enjoyed UN Security Council authorization. There is, however, an important difference intervention. Unlike previous interventions, ensuing debate over justifiability have focused attention concerning