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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya. Part II

The first part of this post articulated non-violent evacuation operations (NVEOs) as a specific legal category of rescue operations that are defined negatively – as those rescues which do not constitute uses of force. NVEOs are those rescues which (a) reasonably do not anticipate the employment o

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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya

In 2011, the UK, Germany and (seemingly) the Netherlands launched targeted rescue operations to rescue their nationals (before the passing of UNSC Resolution 1973, which authorised “all necessary measures [short of occupation]… to protect civilians and civilian populated areas…”) from Libya, in the midst of

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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/revisiting-the-uks-2011-rescue-of-nationals-from-libya/