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363:, though it is estimated that between 200,000 and 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered. This does not necessarily include military, non-combatant or civilian peoples killed by radiation, disease or other means as a result of war. After World War II ended, countries got together with the aim to give rights to non-combatants, and created the 1949 Geneva Conventions, built off the 1907 Hague Convention.
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298:) and civilian populations. Article 54 deals with Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, and is categorical that "Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited." Chapter III of Protocol I regulates the targeting of civilian objects. Article 8(2)(b)(i) of the
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As of 2017, there are inconsistent ways in which the prosecutions of terrorists are conducted. Possible solutions would be to take all individuals classified as non-combatants and have them charged as criminals and prosecute the individuals who are considered combatants and engage in warfare attacks
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Article 25 of Treaty II states that undefended communities are protected from any form of attack. In addition to the above, Article 27 states that if any sieges do occur, places devoted to religion, charity or hospitals should be avoided if possible, as long as they have no strategic affiliations.
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were not specifically identified as whether they are non-combatants or ordinary civilians, which might have been directly or indirectly killing hundreds and thousands of
Vietnamese civilians. However, there is no exact proportion of the number of the non-combatants have or were specify the exact
355:, non-combatants were more affected than they were in previous wars. Sources claim that over forty-five million civilians and non-combatants lost their lives over the course of the war. This number, however, is largely debated. Despite the understanding that over 18 million were killed in the
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states that in the case of armed conflict not of an international character (occurring in the territory of one of the High
Contracting Parties) that each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions to "persons taking no active part in the hostilities"
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Thousands of people were killed: civilian, casualties, combatants and non-combatants and so as ordinary civilians (citizens) in
Vietnam but also in Laos and Cambodia. Thus, all figures do not specify how many non-combatants were killed or injured.
405:, a terrorist can be explained as an individual who is a non-state actor who engages in armed hostilities toward a state or government during a time of peace. The location an individual is tried in a court of law is the determining factor between
180:). Article 13 of the same section declares that any other non-combatant or civilian affiliated with but not part of the belligerent military, such as reporters and contractors, have the same right to be treated as a prisoner of war.
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Article 28 states that even when a village is captured through war, pillaging is not allowed by any party. That is repeated in
Article 47, Section III. The articles above were reaffirmed by Convention IV of the 1907 Convention.
226:. The Geneva Conventions recognizes and expands on many of the treaties signed at the Hague Conventions, particularly those involving the treatment of non-combatants. As a result, the regulations are still in effect today.
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figure, the statistics that has been given were all the estimates on how many civilians and combatants were killed. Most of the recorded number of people missing or killed were not specific, but all were
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under military commissions. Combatant terrorists are captured and detained in order to put an end to their hostilities and are labeled as prisoners of war, and non-combatants are considered criminals.
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started on April 21, 1949 and were concluded on August 12. The purpose of the
Conventions was to establish protections afforded to protected non-combatants in wartime, including civilians under
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are considered combatant terrorists or may also be called unlawful combatants. Non-combatants can also be looked at as radical civilians and combatants can be seen as military soldiers.
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have ratified
Protocol I or the Rome Statute, these provisions reiterated existing customary laws of war which is binding of all belligerents in an international conflict.
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from an aircraft, whether it is disabled or not, are not given the protection afforded by this
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without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
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and as a result of other Nazi persecution, the exact number will likely never be determined. There is also difficulty of estimating the numbers for events such as the
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302:also prohibits attacks directed against civilians.
2254:International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Trials)
1970:of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985)
191:Many nations signed, including delegates from the
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1088:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
759:"Customary IHL: Rule 3. Definition of Combatants"
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2033:History of human rights
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1430:Crimes against humanity
1036:Encyclopedia Britannica
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119:First Geneva Convention
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1977:Incitement to genocide
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