Birmania: è tempo di intervenire

Cosa deve fare la comunità internazionale di fronte al comportamento dei militari birmani che negano l’assistenza ai sopravvissuti del ciclone? Il Consiglio di sicurezza dell’Onu studia le modalità di intervento in base al principio della "Responsabilità di protezione".

Per approfondire segnaliamo il seguente articolo del The Truro Daily News.


It’s time to intervene in Burma

By Lloyd Axworthy

Editorial, The Truro Daily News

13 May 2008

Once again the world is faced with the serious question of how far the international community should go in challenging the right of national sovereignty when a government denies its most basic responsibility to protect citizens faced with mass suffering and loss of life during a humanitarian catastrophe.

There has been a long litany of tragic cases where violence and killing have been directed against innocent people whose governments have stood by or were themselves the perpetrators. Think of the killing fields of Rwanda, the Balkans, more recently of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Darfur. And now, another example of a national government committing a major travesty of justice, but with a different twist (...)

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