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humanitarian intervention
The interference of one state in the affairs of another by means of armed force with the intention of making that state adopt a more humanitarian policy, usually the protection of human rights of minority groups. Despite debate, such intervention is not recognized as legal under the UN Charter. However, states continue to rely on humanitarian grounds as justification for military action; examples of humanitarian intervention include Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia (1978), the declaration by the USA, the UK, Russia, and France of an air exclusion zone in southern Iraq in an effort to protect the Shia Marsh Arabs (1992), and military actions to protect the Muslim population of Kosovo (1999). The decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Tadic (“Prijedor”) IT-94-1 (November 1999) acted to confirm the fact that a distinction between “international” conflicts and purely “domestic” conflicts has now disappeared. The rules of humanitarian law that are applicable to conflicts between states have also become customary rules applicable to disputes within states. |