Belligerent Reprisals.KZ6385 90-04-14386-6 Belligerent reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. . Kalshoven, Frits. (International humanitarian law International humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the law of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus "comprised of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, series) Martinus-Nijhoff, [c]2005 389 p. $122.00 Characterizing his inquiry as a paradoxical question of how far states may use inhumanity in·hu·man·i·ty n. pl. in·hu·man·i·ties 1. Lack of pity or compassion. 2. An inhuman or cruel act. inhumanity Noun pl -ties 1. in order to promote the interests of humanity, Kalshoven (formerly a professor of international humanitarian law at Leiden U. and Groningen U., the Netherlands) examines the international legal conundrum of belligerent reprisals, in which states respond to unlawful encroachments of the rules of war with equally unlawful actions for the purpose of dissuading the opponents from their actions. After conceptually developing the idea of belligerent reprisal reprisal, in international law, the forcible taking, in time of peace, by one country of the property or territory belonging to another country or to the citizens of the other country, to be held as a pledge or as redress in order to satisfy a claim. and placing it within the framework of international law, he presents a historical narrative of the rules developed prior to the Second World War; British measures of reprisal in the context of economic warfare against Germany; other measures of reprisal during the war involving such matters as indiscriminate bombing of enemy populations, killing prisoners of war prisoners of war, in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. , and taking and killing of hostages; post-war war crimes trials involving the plea of belligerent reprisals; and post-war attempts to codify codify to arrange and label a system of laws. the law of belligerent reprisal; and instances of belligerent reprisals in more recent conflicts. Nijhoff, an imprint of Brill, is republishing this work, which had fallen out of print since its original 1971 appearance. |
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