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It was Britain under the New Labour government which founded an ‘ethical foreign policy’ when confronted with mass crimes in Kosovo pushing for the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect. In the last years, though, more and more mass crimes have been taking place and the former ‘leading hawk’ seems to have fallen silent. The paper examines this thesis by referring the most obvious mass atrocities of our times: the excessive war crimes in Yemen and the crimes against humanity (presumably even genocides) in Myanmar and China.
