Africa Is Failing the Responsibility to Protect Its Citizens

6 March 2014
analysis

The R2P principle offers potential to protect civilians from crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, genocide and war crimes. Yet in Africa violations continue to occur despite the legal peace and security architecture to deliver on the principle

The twentieth century gives us a bleak past regarding war. The killing fields of Cambodia, the genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica massacres, the last two under the supervision of the Security Council and peacekeeping forces of the UN peace.

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