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Wars of national liberation and non-international armed conflicts

Matthias Vanhullebusch

• ISIL yearbook of international humanitarian and refugee law, Vol. 12-13, 2012-2013, p. 1-43

English

This article focuses on the laws of war regulating wars of national liberation in a post-decolonization context. It looks at the legal regime governing armed conflicts where the right of self-determination of peoples who have been dominated, occupied and racially discriminated against by their own governments through so-called "internal colonization" is disputed. Acknowledging that the international community often treats fights for self-determination as mere “situations of internal disturbances and tensions” or non-international conflicts in order to prevent the political or territorial fragmentation of States, the author presents a series of arguments supporting the application of Article 1(4) of Additional Protocol I to fights for self-determination in a decolonized world.

• ISIL yearbook of international humanitarian and refugee law / THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISIL yearbook of international humanitarian and refugee law [Vol. 12-13, 2012-2013] / THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW