""Count up the results of fifty years of human rights mechanisms, this is a failure of implementation in a scale that shames us all. "1 Mary Robinson, UNHRC, 10 December 1998 As the twenty first century begins, the argument that the human rights movement should become more assertive becomes more compelling. As one esteemed jurist put it ?the past has been a matter of pleading with tyrants, writing letters and sending missions to beg them not to act cruelly. That will not be necessary of there is a possibility that they can be deterred by threats of humanitarian or United Nations intervention or with nemesis in the form of the International Criminal Court?”2 Burma provides an excellent case study for testing the viability of such an approach..."