In 2005, on the UN’s 60th anniversary, the General Assembly, convening at head of state and government level, unanimously endorsed the concept of states’ responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes. With that vote, the international community began to eradicate the shameful indifference that accompanied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, and too many similar catastrophes.
也许有一次经验是最有意义的。2005年，在联合国成立六十周年之际，超越国家和政府水平的联合国大会一致通过了一国具有保护其人民免受大屠杀和其他大规模残暴罪行伤害义务的概念。这次投票意味着国际社会开始着手根除在纳粹大屠杀、卢旺达、斯雷布雷尼察、达尔富尔和其他类似灾难中的令人羞耻的冷漠。