The situation in Libya became a test of how seriously the international community takes the idea of a responsibility to protect people from their rulers. The idea is an old one, but its modern form is rooted in the tragic failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
这是安理会首次一直同意向国际刑事法庭提起人权暴力诉讼，尤其令人瞩目的是，包括中美俄在内的非国际法庭成员国也支持诉讼。因此，这项决议可以看作一个里程碑,朝着建立能够惩罚犯有严重侵犯人权罪行者的全球司法体系又迈进了一步，不管被告在在本国的政治和法律地位多么崇高，都逃脱不了法律的制裁。