Savelsberg Human Rights

Have governments responded to atrocities and human rights violation? Or has state power left the legal system hopeless and dead ended. Individual attributions of international state power a reason to legal system becoming hopeless for civilians to rely on for justice; undoubtingly a dead end. Joachim J Savelsberg elevates with serious questions in a series of chapters about the barbarous unspoken hidden cruelties behind civil wars, the genocide. Savelsberg takes the issue with the widely held assumption that these grave violations of human rights (HR) and humanitarian law (HL) focus on a particular territorial dispute of rival gangs whom belong to a particular state. Savelsberg further argues ‘innovative criminologists have only recently begun
to address HR and HL violations their contributions are crucial as such violation during the 20th century alone cost the lives of almost two hundred million people and resulted in hundreds and millions of cases in rape torture, looting, arson and displacement- a toll that far outnumbers victimizations through street crimes.’* The implements of these atrocities conducted by the government officials and army troops, whom take part in a huge ethnic cleansing action. Savelsberg firms the importance in the instant need to resolve such implementations that affect innocent civilians of a particular ethnicity (racial background) regards to state power and state law, all humans no matter what race or gender should never experience such atrocities and that human rights should protect civilians no matter what part of this world they belong to regardless to status, race or background.