R2P renders civilians to a "sad and regrettable legitimate military target"

Victim of the R2P concept after a NATO strike on Zlitan

After a US demand (27/2) as a perquisite for action to be taken in an attempt to prevent a precedent that could see Americans prosecuted by the ICC for alleged crimes in other conflicts, no one from an outside country that is not a member of the ICC (aka the mercenaries) can be prosecuted for their actions in Libya.  Finally on the March 17, the Security Council adopted the Resolution 1973. It was accepted by the vote of a 4,968% of the World's population (while  the present Security Council's 15 members represent the 47,728% of the World's population) and it happens to include an arms embargo that was violated repeatedly, first from France and recently from Qatar.
It mainly authorized NATO to take all nessecary measures to protect innocent lives of civilians threatened by Qaddafi's armed forces, remember? But if civilians from the other side get killed by the coalition's forces, well this is not a problem: it is "a legitimate military target".
It seems that the Resolution consist a carte blanche for NATO indiscriminate bombing. Aljazeera reporting: "The Libyan government says 19 civilians have been killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi's top officials, a day after the Western military alliance admitted killing civilians in a separate attack. Libyan officials took reporters to Surman, 70km west of Tripoli, to the site of what they said was a NATO air strike on the home of Khouildi Hamidi.The officials said the attack on the home of Hamidi, a member of Libya's 12-strong Revolutionary Command Council, led by Gaddafi, took place on Monday morning.

Rescue teams were looking for survivors while reporters visited the site. Reporters were then taken to a hospital in nearby Sabrata where they were shown nine bodies, including those of two children, plus some body parts, which the officials said were all of people killed in the attack. The state-run Jana news agency later reported on its website that eight children were among 19 people killed in the attack. The dead included members of Hamidi's family, it said. The government said Hamidi himself was not hurt". On Sunday (June 19) NATO bombed a house in Tripoli and acknowledged that caused the killing of several civilians. The most recent figures by that time from Libya's health ministry show 856 civilians had been killed in NATO air raids since they began in March. The figure could not be independently confirmed. Despite that Mr. Oana Lungescu, a NATO spokesperson talking to Aljazeer, said NATO's killing of civilians was a "sad incident that we deeply regret" common sense suggests that civilians' deaths are not a regrettable rare exception during a war. The Arab League, which in March asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians, condemned Sunday's mission by NATO: "When the Arab League agreed on the idea of having a no-fly zone over Libya it was to protect civilians but when civilians get killed this has to be condemned with the harshest of statements," said deputy secretary-general Ahmed Ben Helli.

As far as I know condemnation with "the harshest of statements" doesn't resurrect people from their graves as the on going bombing of Tripoli with tones of depleted uranium doesn't support the "democratic values" of a civilized European Union.

On 4/8 a strike on a two-storey home in the suburbs of the town of Zlitan, 160 miles east of Tripoli, killed the wife and two children of Mustafa Naji, a physics teacher and sparked an eruption of local anger against the bombing campaign.

"These people were not fighters, there is no military in this neighbourhood," said Ali Adil, a lawyer and neighbour. "Nato say they are protecting civilians but they are turning their weapons on us. The UN Security Council should investigate this." A nephew pulled off the funerary shrouds to reveal the bloodied faces of the dead.

"Those that are fighting with Nato are traitors against their country," said Mohammad Ali Berber, a cousin of the victim. "We should volunteer to go to the front line and finish it. We will never forgive." Nato bore the brunt of the blame for the attack.

Mr Adil said that he had seen helicopters in action attacking areas where there were no soldiers deployed. "It's an unfair war using this technology against us."

As the operation "United Protector" unfolds, after 100 days of war with 12,000 sorties flown in 5,000 attack missions and hit over 2,400 targets NATO asked US to provide more drones: "It's getting more difficult to find stuff to blow up," said a senior NATO officer. The CIA Director Leon Panetta has emphasized that winning the war in Libya is one of his top priorities. His predecessor, Robert M. Gates, had urged European allies to do more and had stressed that the U.S. military was overstretched.The Pentagon's willingness to consider strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization force in Libya marks an apparent shift since Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta took over the Pentagon early this month. Given that the UN mandate was about protecting civilians and not conducting an offensive attack the contradiction with CIA Director's statements is obvious. For how can one claim victory when serving a protective role?

As Colonel Roland Lavoie, military spokesman for Operation Unified Protector confirmed in his Press Conference on 26/7: "I would like to say that it's not the NATO... the NATO mission is not about winning or losing. It's about basically saving lives. NATO has no intent of taking Brega or any other cities. We are basically monitoring the situation and acting where it is required to prevent attacks on civilians or to prevent a build-up of military capabilities that could stop humanitarian aid, for example".

Don't worry if tomorrow some Libyan citizens explode themselves in you nearby metro station having lost their families in such a "regrettable legitimate military target" case: Face it like a side - effect of spreading democracy and open markets operation.