In a conversation with Elana Berger of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, we talk about how R2P might be effectively applied to the situation in Libya.
I have just obtained the copy of a draft resolution from the Human Rights Council that strongly condemns the violence in Libya. What is more significant than the substance of the resolution is the broad degree of support it has received.
There are four main options for the security council. 1) Pass a resolution of some sort. 2) Issue a "presidential statement." 3) Issue a "Press statement" 4) Do nothing. Both 1 and 4 are not very likely.
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Rights groups are coalescing around the idea that there must be some immediate action taken to stop the ongoing abuses--and that to deter future similar abuses, the international community needs to enforce some sort of accountability mechanism for individuals responsible for the slaughter.
A potential No Fly Zone is only a humanitarian half measure. It would let the international community say that it is doing something, but there is very little a No Fly Zone can actually do to stop ongoing slaughter.
In a rambling address to the country last night, Col. Muammar Qaddafi's son, Se'f al Islam Qaddafi warned (promised?) a civil war if protesters were to end his father's 40 year rule. Evidence that a civil war has already broken out.