Originally Posted by Gavin

Anyway, I didn't think regime change was illegal, its just the UN never wanted to sponser it.

We have an ICC, we have international criminals, it should be difficult for the two to meet.

It would be lovely if the UN would issue arrest warrants for (certainly the heads of) the regimes that chronically and severely abuse human rights (there are at least 12, including as FW pointed out, China), and try them for their crimes against humanity. Never see it happening.

Dictactors are sick people who assume power and abuse human rights to feed their psychosis. They also do it because they know noone will stop them. How many dictators in the 20th or 21st century have faced any kind of justice? Hitler was diposed but never faced justice. Pol Pot? Idi Amin? Kim Jong Ill? And the regimes like China? Saudi Arabia?

We live in this horrible, hypocritical age of human rights and justice, where countries like Syria whose human rights record is so bad we can deport people to, are allowed on the UN security council to be in a position to enforce how other countries are supposed to act.