1. Legal and Non-Legal Responses to the Rwandan Genocide
... purely in self-defense. It is clear that the nation-state's failures to realize the significance of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan deaths in comparison to their own few causalities, disallowed an effective aid mission by leading to a withdrawal of troops. The non-legal responses by NGO's and the media during the Rwandan genocide assisted the situation, however did not prove to be ... approach to abuses of human rights such as genocide, allowing the international community to immediately step in if a sovereign state fails to protect it's own citizens. This was effective in sorting o...
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