Examples of Humanitarian Intervention
Previous humanitarian interventions include:
- Russian, British and French Anti-Ottoman Intervention in the Greek War of Independence (1824)
- French expedition in Syria (1860–1861)
- Russian Anti-Ottoman Intervention in Bulgaria (1877)
- Spanish–American War (1898)
- United States occupation of Haiti (1915)
- United Nations Operation in the Congo (1964)
- US intervention in Dominican Republic (1965)
- Vietnamese Intervention in Cambodia (1978)
- Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
- Uganda-Tanzania War (1979)
- Operation Provide Comfort (Iraq, 1991)
- Unified Task Force (Somalia, 1992)
- Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti, 1994)
- UNAMIR (Rwanda, 1994)
- UNTAET (East Timor, 1999)
- NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (1999)
- Coalition military intervention in Libya (2011)
The above are academically accepted 'incidences' of humanitarian intervention.
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