Category: Responsibility to Protect

Humanitarian Intervention Responsibility to Protect

Libya, racism, imperialism and humanitarian interventionism

Post author By HRI Mark
Post date October 21, 2012
2 Comments on Libya, racism, imperialism and humanitarian interventionism

Two videos on the theme of humanitarian intervention have come out recently. Professor Maximilian Forte of Montreal has produced a film: LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency unveiling the racism lying behind humanitarian interventionism. Well worth watching and disseminating.

Tags empire, Glenn Greenwald, humanitarian intervention, Libya, Maximilian Forte, race, War

Conflict in Libya Libya Responsibility to Protect The Law of War

Responsibility to protect: the liberation of Sirte

Post author By HRI Mark
Post date October 27, 2011
13 Comments on Responsibility to protect: the liberation of Sirte

Bodies of victims in Sirte

According to NATO figures, coalition aircraft delivered 415 key strikes on the town of Sirte between Sunday 28th August and Thursday 20th October. We have compared this to the bombing of Guernica and other comparisons have been made to the widely condemned levelling of Grozny.

Tags GR2P, indiscriminate, R2P, responsibiity to protect, responsibility to protect, Sirte, war crime