The United Nations Security Council demonstrated extreme incompetence by gathering a force of 5000 troops, but failing to organize them to arrive in Rwanda in time, before the conclusion of the genocide. ... In addition to NGO's, the media played an important role in spreading awareness of the violence and atrocities of the genocide around the world. ...
This view advocates the idea that in extreme cases of human rights abuses, the international community has the responsibility to protect civilians from 'genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity' where states fail. ... In response to the violence of 2011, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970 in February, which referred the conflict to the International Criminal Court (ICC), to investigate the 'gross and systematic violation of human rights'. ...
Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ...
