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The commentary discusses the legitimacy of the military action of the international community in Lybia and its reflections on the classic conduct of armed intervention, authorized according to the international humanitarian law. It has been argued that NATO’s campaign is arguably the first military conflict fought under the legal supervision of the International Criminal Court and under the constrains of the Security Council resolution. Thus, it highlights the cosmopolitan feature of the NATO operations in Lybia and the exceptional legal justification, namely the responsability to protect, authorizing outside powers to remove Gaddafi from power and install a new government to end the massive and reiterated violations of human rights against civilians.