FRANCAISMédecins du Monde - Comments
6) Links to the military
-If MDM generally condemns economic sanctions because of their impact on civilians, it approves arms embargoes. With Bernard Kouchner, it argues in favour of a humanitarian principle of interference and the use of the force against the worst abuses committed by war criminals. In 1999, for instance, the organisation asked the international community to launch a military intervention in Kosovo. It also collaborated with the French Army in Somalia in 1993, as well as with the Navy in Yugoslavia in 1991 and off Vietnam in 1985-1987.
