Christian Ethics: Withdrawal of UN Troops from Rwanda in 1994
From the Christian position of the just war, the United Nations' withdrawal of troops from Rwanda in 1994 was unethical. Just war doctrine, according to Augustine of Hipo and others including Hugo Grotius, requires that Christians avoid initiating wars of aggression but that they respond when human rights are violated, when aggression has targeted them, and when a failure to respon
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