Since it began in 2003, "Battlestar Galactica," based on a TV series from the 1970s, has gained attention for its frank treatment of issues that seem to mirror ones on Earth: resistance fighters who use terrorism to battle an occupying army; interrogation techniques and the rights of prisoners of war; genocide; and weapons of mass destruction.
Her first five-part series of books, The Underland Chronicles (for nine- to 12-year-olds), also featured an assassination, biological weapons, genocide and the use of military intelligence.
The freezing of their assets was a non-violent response to the threat to the integrity of a sovereign state that had not committed genocide or developed weapons of mass destruction; that had not threatened to invade a neighbour or provided any other casus belli beyond having a revolution against a fantastically corrupt government.
"She says that the Rwandan government is using genocide as a weapon".
"But when people try to use this problem of genocide as a weapon against another nation, which is basically what happened in the Congo, that's why you have a problem".
The most serious crimes include genocide, torture, chemical weapon attacks, and forcibly displacing civilians.
Kurdistan also faces major challenges associated with treating long-term chronic diseases and post-traumatic mental illness resulting from successive wars, particularly the genocide and chemical weapon attacks [ 4, 7- 11].
Still, Obama has said that he is worried that arming the rebels will have unintended consequences: a genocide against the Alawites; weapons falling into the hands of Islamist extremists, as happened when the U.S. armed Afghan jihadis in the nineteen-eighties; or a rapid political collapse that demolishes the state's institutions.
He has published more than 100 articles on abolishing nuclear weapons, ending genocide forever, reinventing the United Nations, and buidling enduring world peace through the world rule of law.
Whether you care about stopping climate change, getting rid of nuclear weapons, ending genocide or support human rights for all, it is past time to acknowledge and stop our self-destructive war on international law.
