There is no question that Syria today represents perhaps the most glaring failure to protect civilians from the worst, an R2P failure of the first order; with 100,000 deaths and clear cases of massacres and other crimes against humanity.
In the case of the massacre in Kandahar, prompt apologies and condemnations from not only Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of the international force, but also President Obama — along with quick action by local leaders — seemed to head off violence and contain the blowback.
It would not go out and, like in the case of Robert Bales, massacre some people because of psychological problems.
In the case of the Harlem massacre, though, weeks have now passed, and facts have accumulated, and a few modest observations may be made.
The two-week journey to America felt worthwhile — after all, we set out to solve the case of a bloody massacre.
In the case of the worst massacre with which Milosevic has been accused of complicity - of between 2,000 and 4,000 men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 - Del Ponte's team have produced nothing to challenge the verdict of the five-year inquiry commissioned by the Dutch government - that there was "no proof that orders for the slaughter came from Serb political leaders in Belgrade".
In the case of the Baga massacre, in what the refugees in Dar Es Salam describe as equal parts cowardice and betrayal, the Nigerian army fled, leaving civilians behind to fend for themselves.
This includes pressure to address abuses carried out by the army within the context of Mexico's efforts to contain violent drug cartels, such as the case of an alleged massacre of gunmen after they had surrendered in the municipality of Tlatlaya in June last year.
But three years into his term, soldiers continue to carry out civilian duties of policing and combating criminals — which human-rights defenders say has led to landmark cases of extrajudicial massacres such as those recently seen in Tlatlaya in June 2014 and in Tanhuato in May of this year.
In the case of the Palm Sunday massacre, the largest mass murder in New York City before the 9/11 attack in which ten people were murdered in Brooklyn, we were investigating a person who was a suspect in the Bronx.
Looking Back on the Unsolved Case of Northern Ireland's Springhill Massacre.
