正是二战期间的暴行与种族灭绝之恐怖，促使各方迅速形成共识：必须成立一个新的组织，致力于防止类似悲剧再次发生。联合国于1945年成立，其首要宗旨是实现这一崇高目标，即“使后世免遭战争之祸”。此后，全球已发生超过250场冲突。显而易见，联合国未能实现其设立的初衷。

It was the horror of the atrocities and genocide during World War 2 that led to a ready consensus that a new organisation must work to prevent any similar tragedies in the future. The United Nations was founded in 1945 primarily to achieve the lofty aim of having to ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.’ Since then there have been more than 250 conflicts worldwide. It is blatantly clear that the UN has been unsuccessful for the purpose it was created for.

西方以及许多第三世界的决策者都认为，联合国是一个公正、拥有近200个成员国、具有广泛国际代表性的机构，它是国际主义、多边行动、民主、多元主义、政教分离、妥协、人权和自由等价值观的灯塔。事实远非如此。

The West as well as many policymakers from the third world consider the UN a non-biased, internationally represented institution boasting nearly 200 member states, who uphold the beacon for the values of internationalism, multilateral action, democracy, pluralism, secularism, compromise, human rights and freedom. This could not be further from the truth.

联合国实际上是一种剥削的工具，从该组织的内在结构可以明显看出，它使殖民主义国家以及安理会常任理事国的全面滥用行为合法化。

The UN in reality is a tool of exploitation where it is manifestly apparent from the inherent structure of the organisation that it legitimises wholesale abuse by the colonialist and permanent members of the Security Council.

1994年，联合国未能阻止卢旺达的种族灭绝，导致近百万人遇害。原因是安理会成员拒绝批准任何军事行动。法国（安理会常任理事国）在这场可追溯至殖民时期的种族内战中支持胡图族政权，反对图西族叛军。危机期间，联合国维和部队被指示只专注于撤离卢旺达的外国公民，而不是保护图西族人。这一改变使比利时维和人员撤离了一所收容2000名难民的技术学校，而胡图族民兵就在外面等候。比利时人离开后，民兵进入学校，屠杀了里面的所有人，其中包括数百名儿童。仅仅四天之后，安理会投票决定将维和部队削减至只有260人。

In 1994 the UN failed to prevent genocide in Rwanda, which resulted in the killing of nearly a million people, due to the refusal of Security Council members to approve any military action. The French (a permanent member of the Security Council) supported the Hutu regime against the Tutsi rebels, in this ethnic civil war that dates back to the colonial era. In the midst of the crisis, UN peace keeping troops were instructed to focus on only evacuating foreign nationals from Rwanda, rather then protecting the Tutsis. This change led Belgian peacekeepers to abandon a technical school filled with 2,000 refugees, while Hutu militants waited outside. After the Belgians left, the militants entered the school and massacred those inside, including hundreds of children. Just four days later, the Security Council voted to reduce its force to only 260 men.

一年之后，类似的情形在后来被称为斯雷布雷尼察种族灭绝的事件中再次发生。尽管英国和美国都希望该地区分裂，但美国希望由北约充当事实上的安全部队。联合国将斯雷布雷尼察指定为难民的“安全区”，并派出600名荷兰维和人员负责保护，然而这些人员将营地移交给了塞尔维亚部队，随后者对营地内的人员进行了大屠杀。

A similar scenario occurred just a year later in what has come to be known as the Srebrenica genocide. Although both Britain and the US wanted the break-up of the region, the US wanted NATO to be the de-facto security force. The UN designated Srebrenica a ‘safe haven’ for refugees assigning 600 Dutch peacekeepers to protect it, who handed over the camp to Serb forces, who then massacred them.

联合国在刚果民主共和国第二次刚果战争期间再次未能进行干预。2000年2月,联合国安全理事会通过第1291号决议,设立了一支联合国维和部队,以监督和平进程。然而,维和部队在内战期间未能进行干预,导致近五百万人丧生。

The United Nations again failed to intervene during the second Congo war in the Democratic republic of Congo. A UN peacekeeping force was established in February 2000, by Resolution 1291 of the United Nations Security Council in order to monitor the peace process. However, failure by the peace keeping force to intervene during the civil war claimed the lives of nearly five million people.

联合国制造了以巴冲突这一问题，并且一直未能执行联合国安理会决议的相关规定，而是选择性地适用国际法，从而使这一失败持续至今。在伊拉克第二次战争的前夕，联合国被弃之一旁，其无效、受帝国主义操控的真相由此暴露。美国并未对这一事实加以掩饰。美国代理驻联合国大使约翰·博尔顿多次发表批评联合国的言论，他在2004年曾说：“根本不存在所谓的联合国。只有国际社会，而国际社会只能由仅存的超级大国——美国来领导。”

The United Nations created the problem of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has continued in its failure to implement provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolutions by selectively applying international law. The United Nations was exposed as being ineffective and run by imperialists when it was essentially thrown aside in the run up to the second Iraq war. The US didn’t hide this fact. John Bolton, acting US Ambassador to the UN, made several statements critical of the UN saying in 2004, ‘There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.

实际上，联合国是一个国际组织，安理会的五个常任理事国（美国、俄罗斯、英国、法国和中国）一直把它当作其各自外交政策的延伸来加以运用。

In reality the UN is an international organisation that the five permanent Security Council members (US, Russia, Britain, France and China) have used as an extension of their own foreign policies.

问题实际上在于国际法这一概念，而国际法在现实中并不存在。只能说存在国际规范和国际惯例，而不能称之为国际法。要使国际法存在，就必须能够在全球性的超国家层面实施强制执行，而这种机制并不存在。因此，我们必须预料到，当符合自身利益时，民族国家会无视国际机构的规定——这就是新现实主义（参见 Waltz. K. 1979. ‘A Theory of International Politics’）。

The problem actually lies in the concept of international law, which in reality does not exist. There can only really be international norms and customs not international law. For international law to exist enforcement must be possible at a global, supranational level. As this does not exist we must expect nation-states to flout the regulations of the international agencies when it suits them – neorealism (cf. Waltz. K. 1979. ‘A Theory of International Politics’).