Thursday, 30 July 2009
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Frank Bainimarama's Failure to Protect
The concept of “Responsibility to Protect” was endorsed by the UN Security Council in 2006, that States have a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide.
Should states FAIL to do so the International Community has a RESPONSIBILITY to STEP IN and protect threatened populations with the use of force if absolutely necessary.
But as Chairman Berman’s opening remark at today’s congressional hearing “New Challenges for International Peacekeeping Operations” acknowledged in the presence of U.S Ambassador to the United Nations Dr. Susan Rice “strong words have not always been matched with strong action”.
Chairman Berman goes on further to ask how the United States could “equip the United Nations to more effectively protect civilians and prevent mass atrocities” and asks the key question:
“Is the international peacekeeping system as conceived today, capable of preventing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocities? Or do we need to develop an entirely new model for our increasingly complex world?”
As discussed in an earlier post, Fiji has ratified and incorporated into domestic law the Genocide Convention and is bound by its terms.
In the event of breach as we are currently witnessing, Frank Bainimarama is technically capable of being indicted by the International Criminal Court under the Rome Statute for genocide under his radically changed mindset and 2014 genocide roadmap fixated on his personal forte, the concept of “failure to protect”.
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