The president of the Red Cross. Cornelio Sommaruga. reported at a U.N. conference in Geneva last week that[w]hole populations are being terrorized. minorities intimidated and harassed. civilians Interned on a massive scale. hostages taken and tortured. Deportation and summary executions are rife. Mr. President. with the end of the cold war we are now poised to learn whether we have made any advance over the impotence of the League of Nations or whether the hopes of mankind are still held in thrall to the age old rule of "might makes right." In the 1930s it became fashionable to dismiss international law as irrelevantas little more than. to borrow again the phrase of John Norton Moore. "a system of negative restraint" which only constrained those states naive enough to voluntarily comply.
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