ICJ - BRITISH ACTION IS INTERVENTION
UN Charter (chapter 7) permits security council to intervene
threat or actual action of breach of international peace and security.
GiUN charter Article 2 (7) however prohibits all such intervention. rl
permits intervention only if state gravely violate the human rights.
UN open process of intervention against countries like Yugoslavia, Somalia, Liberia, Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan etc.
Protectorate seate
protect citizens
Oppenheim - ‘dictatorial interference by a state in the affairs of another state for the purpose of maintaining or altering the actual condition of things
Forcible or dictatorial interference by a state in the affairs of another state, calculated to impose certain conduct or consequences on that another state’
Russia, France and Germany had a joint action against Japan to return Chineese territory. Consequently Japan return the territory to china (Shimonoseki).
INTERNAL
EXTERNAL
PUNITIVE
HUMANITARIAN
resolution dated 11-12-1965 declared that ‘no state has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever, in internal or external affairs of any other state’.
ICJ in Nicaragua v. US endorsed this view