Mark Palmer presents a strategy for dealing with dictators
The best kept secret in multilateral diplomacy, the Community of Democracies launched in Warsaw in 2000, should move towards the centre of British, American and other democracies’ foreign policies. Its budding democracy group at the UN could take back the UN human rights commission from the dictators.
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The dictators will not co-operate unless there are pressures. The prospect of a trial will help to focus their minds on the need for a negotiated way out. Saddam and the dictators of Yugoslavia, Liberia, Chad, Rwanda, Chile and Argentina have confronted this reality in a growing international practice. Dictatorship itself should be recognised as a crime against humanity and we should gather the evidence against each one of the last, least wanted.
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