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Hollow Victory: Humanitarian Intervention and Protection of Minorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

W. Michael Reisman*
Affiliation:
Yale University Law School; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Abstract

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Type
Protecting Minorities: Lessons of International Peacekeeping
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 But not always. Consider, for example, the Syrian intervention in Lebanon in 1982, with the tacit approval of the Arab League and the Security Council. To date, the forces of Syria remain in Lebanon.

2 Stromseth, Jane E., Self-Determination, Secession and Humanitarian Intervention by the United Nations, 85 Proc. Am. Soc’y Int’l L. 370, 374 (1991)Google Scholar.

3 There is, as Professor Stromseth has said, “a developing consensus that protection of the rights of minorities is a matter of international concern.” Id. at 374.

4 S.C. Res. 688, reprinted in 30 I.L.M. 858 (1991).

5 Id.

6 See Note, , Hungary and a New Paradigm for the Protection of Ethnic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 32 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 673 (1995)Google Scholar.