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Spotlight on violations of international humanitarian law: The role of the media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Roy W. Gutman
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Fifty years after the United Nations proclaimed its ambitious Universal Declaration of Human Rights, skeptics will have no trouble demonstrating that the international community's commitment to the document is shallow at best. The pretense was laid bare by the UN's inadequacy to stop genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, compounded by the institution's failure to conduct a thoroughgoing self-examination to determine the lessons of the debacle in Bosnia.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 38 , Issue 325 , December 1998 , pp. 619 - 625
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998

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1 The French essayist Jean Baudrillard calls the UN soldier in Bosnia the “virtual soldier”, who “does not die, but is paralysed and immobilized, a stand-in for the dead”. He adds that “the military paralysis is not surprising, however, since it is related to the mental paralysis of the civilized world”. Baudrillard, Jean in Cushman, Thomas and Mestrovic, Stjepen, This time we knew, New York University Press, 1996, p. 88.Google Scholar