(2) The laws of war do not apply; the US military has a free hand. After World War I, it was clear the 1906 Convention and The Hague Convention of 1907 didnt go far enough. . Humane Treatment (GPW, Art. All detainees will be treated humanely and with respect in accordance with applicable U.S. law and policy and the law of war. The new updates stated all prisoners must be treated with compassion and live in humane conditions. This. I directed the CIA not to use them. The controversy especially concerned Americas use of CIA/Department of Justice government-approved enhanced interrogation techniques to extract information from approximately 33 uncooperative detainees on plans for future terrorist attacks and the members and organisational structure of the Al Qaeda terrorist network. But he didnt just write about what hed observed, he also proposed a solution: All nations come together to create trained, volunteer relief groups to treat battlefield wounded and offer humanitarian assistance to those affected by war. American Red Cross.The Battle of Solferino. Within this resiliently-enduring Westphalian system, State and Non-State actors continue to form the basic building blocks of the international system today, and the fundamental parties and actions within a conflict can be identified even within very complex conflicts, meaning that categorisation of wars into International and Non-International armed conflict can still take place. In 1929, updates were made to further the civilized treatment of prisoners of war. However, CIL is founded on general, rather than unanimous, international recognition and agreement. The severest of these interrogation tactics was supervised waterboarding a technique used on 3 of the highest ranking, most knowledgeable and most obstinate Al Qaeda terrorists in American custody (see endnote). [10], Non-International armed conflicts typically involve civil wars in which: (a) the government of a State is using its regular armed forces to fight against one or more identifiable, dissident armed groups operating within the territory of the State; or (b) armed and hostile fighting is taking place between dissident, rival armed groups within a State, that does not involve the government, but nevertheless requires the government to act to restore security and stability to the State.[11]. In sum, International armed conflict (IAC) may be regarded as largely inter-State conflict, that is, conflict that takes place between States, which following World War II (WWII) in 1949 was considered the prevailing form of conflict in a State-centered international system. The principle of humane treatment requires that the wounded and sick, prisoners of war, civilians and other persons protected by IHL are treated humanely at all times. The duty to obey the LOAC is so forceful that it demands obedience even to the extent of disobeying national superior orders that are perceived to be manifestly unlawful under the LOAC. [20] Derbyshire, NZDF LOAC Manual Chapter 15: Prisoners of War and other persons deprived of their liberty in the course of armed conflict in Section Nine: Prisoners of War and Other Persons Deprived of Their Liberty, pp. That view was reinforced by his boasting and his behavior, intended to persuade his own people and his neighbors of that success. With regard to the highly controversial Iraq War, the U.S. Marine Corps former Deputy Commander of U.S. CENTCOM, Lieutenant General (LTGEN) Michael DeLong, stated in 2007 that: Although we wondered about the timing, we never wondered about the rightness of removing Saddam from power. Common Article 3 requires the humane treatment of all persons taking no active part in the hostilities - this includes persons who have laid down their arms, or are hors de combat (i.e. Indeed, Pejic asserts that the GWOT is neither IAC nor NIAC in nature, arguing that it may in some situations be an international armed conflict, in other instances a non-international armed conflict, and in still other cases not an armed conflict in the legal sense at all.[37] As Pejic concludes: Every situation of organized armed violence arising from or in response to terrorism must be examined on a case-by-case basis. Young, How May Operation Iraqi Freedom [OIF] Campaigns Were There?, HIRE G.I., 14 July 2018, https://hiregi.com/2018/07/14/how-many-operation-iraqi-freedom-oif-campaigns-were-there/, (accessed 1 May 2019). If judges are honest and the compass of justice truly points north in law-abiding nations, to whom members of the armed forces belong, then any individual member of the Armed Forces who disobeyed superior orders that were manifestly illegal under the LOAC, in order to uphold the binding obligations and rights under the LOAC, ought not fail to be exonerated of any crime or wrong-doing during any subsequent civilian or military trial. [21], Common Article 3: The article common to all four of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which is also an accepted and established customary norm of CIL, requiring that all persons that are not taking an active part in hostilities within a Non-International intra-State armed conflict be treated humanely in all circumstances, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, birth, wealth or any other similar criteria. The Geneva Conventions providefor universal jurisdiction, as opposed to a more traditional (and limited) territorial jurisdictionthat was designed torespect thesovereignty of States over their citizens. As Condi Rice would write years later, The fact is, we invaded Iraq because we believed we had run out of other options. Gain critical insight into the Al Qaeda terrorist network, including its structure, organisation, profiling, recruitment, casing and agenda; Open up new leads to terrorists and terrorist plots; Provide locational information on Al Qaeda managers and operatives; Make arrests of active Al Qaeda operatives and cells posing serious threats; Identify real names and roles of individuals within Al Qaeda; Identify individuals actively seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons; Expand the U.S. and its partners understanding of Al Qaeda, and other terrorist organisations, including the extent of their operations in the world; and. [6] Common Article 2 to the Geneva Conventions 1949. By 2003, most governments and intelligence services had concluded that Saddam had been successful in resuming his weapons programs. no This way of thinking resulted in more humane treatment for those officially classified as prisoners of war. Had we captured more al Qaeda operatives with significant intelligence value, I would have used the program for them as well (Bush, Decision Points, ibid., pp. [28] Modified images taken from: N. Shachtman, Afghan Air War Hits 3-Year Low, WIRED, 16 January 2012, https://www.wired.com/2012/01/afghan-air-war/, (accessed 1 May 2019); Operations and missions: past and present, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),25 April 2019, https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_52060.htm, (accessed 1 May 2019); L. Eptako, Then and Now: What Replaced the Toppled Saddam Statue?, PBS Newshour, 26 August 2010, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/saddam-statue, (accessed 1 May 2019); and B. These disasters in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, involving national military contingents engaging in both UN- and NATO-led multinational security operations over a period of ten years, are more than government, military and humanitarian failures however. 13, 20, 27; FM 27-10, para. Humane treatment includes: be treated with respect for their dignity as human beings. One of the treaties created during the 1949 Convention, this defined "Prisoner of War,"and accorded such prisoners proper and humane treatment as specified by the first Convention. This is because LOAC constitutes the highest law governing armed conflict in the world today and is the ultimate legal standard internationally for the lawful conduct of war. It renders the convicts or accused of such crimes to the jurisdiction of all signatory States, regardless of their nationality or territoriality of their crime. To summarize, the law of armed conflict: is a branch of international law; The extreme, Islamo-fascist terrorists and insurgents of today do indeed present a new and different brand of non-State and unlawful Enemy combatant in armed conflict in modern times, that was certainly not envisaged in the drafting of the Geneva Conventions in 1949 or the IAC and NIAC Additional Protocols in 1977. Another technique was waterboarding, a process of simulated drowning. 151-152 in Geneva Convention IV, in the following PDF of the Geneva Conventions provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, accessible here: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-0173.pdf). Additionally, the rights of interned persons were specifically enumerated, providing protections for those charged with crimes during wartime. 35-36 in Geneva Convention I, pp. Adding to these legal rights, Article 75(3) of API states, moreover, that Detaining Powers are obligated to release detainees only when the circumstances justifying the arrest, detention or internment have ceased. This is a principle supported by CIL which also allows that detainees may be held in detention against their will if there is a good reason to do so, and as long as reason requires (API Art 75(3) and ICRC Customary IHL Rule 99, in NZDF LOAC Manual, ibid., pp. Humane treatment includes: be treated with respect for their dignity as human beings. Learn how your comment data is processed. As a direct result of the CIAs use of the enhanced interrogation techniques on the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo, over the period of 5 years between 2001-2006, the United States is credited with having saved the lives of countless hundreds of innocent, non-combatant, American and foreign citizens from planned Al Qaeda terrorist attacks around the world. [31] Paradoxically, the court also ruled simultaneously that these captured terrorists and terror-using insurgents be givena right normally given to civilians taking a direct part in hostilities during International armed conflict in Article 75 of Geneva Convention IV namely the right to challenge death sentences (a ruling later expanded to include the right to challenge basic detention in the Boumediene v. Bush case in 2008).[32]. The lack of global consensus on these important definitions has meant that, while on the one hand most nations on the world stage absolutely oppose and condemn torture and inhumane treatment of any persons involved in an armed conflict, on the other hand, these nations hold diverse interpretations, understandings and positions on these terms and what they mean in reality and in practice during armed conflict. The result was unanimous adoption in the fall of 2002 of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded a full accounting of progress in Iraqs weapons programs and a rigorous international inspection effort. It is binding on you as a member of thearmed forces of your State. 4 of 8) It does not justify prohibited actions (correct) It justifies the use of overwhelming force, but not wanton destruction (correct) Humanity is a principle of the Law of War that addresses the immunity of peaceful populations and civilian objects from attack. Intelligence information is much more often imprecise than it is precise[Included in our intelligence analysis was] WMD from the last Gulf War, the [testimony of Saddams defecting] son-in-law who gave information, [and the] monumental reams of intercepted information (cited in DeLong. For under the LOAC, Detaining Powers are clearly permitted to question detainees in order to ascertain their identity and status and to obtain information of military value, and are generally allowed to use skilful interrogation to induce detainees to provide intelligence of worth (NZDF LOAC Manual Chapter 15: Prisoners of War and other persons deprived of their liberty in the course of armed conflict, in Section Nine: Prisoners of War and Other Persons Deprived of Their Liberty, 149.335 Law of Armed Conflict, ibid., p. 36). c. In accordance with DoDD 2311.01, all persons subject to this issuance will report It specifically prohibits murder, mutilation. So I supported Bush 43s decision to invade and bring Saddam down. Perhaps the most important and pressing evolution of CIL in recent decades concerns the treatment of captured Al Qaeda/Islamist terrorists, and terror-using insurgents (e.g. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 also laid out rules for protecting wounded, sick or shipwrecked armed forces at sea or on hospital ships as well as medical workers and civilians accompanying or treating military personnel. To that end, the Convention prohibits torture, assaults upon personal dignity, and execution without judgment(Article 3). I'll also focus on Department of Defense policies with respect to the law of war and the current conflict with Iraq and Iraqi violations of the law of war. Regarding the Humane Treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees (February 7, 2002), . Ratification grew steadily through the decades: 74 States ratified the Conventions during the 1950s, 48 States did so during the 1960s, 20 States signed on during the 1970s, and another 20 States did so during the 1980s. While the 1949 Geneva Conventions have been universally ratified, the Additional Protocols have not. a. States comply with the practice out of a sense of legal obligation to an international norm or custom, rather than solely due to their own legal LOAC obligations or national interests.[16]. CIL is considered binding on all states, regardless of whether or not the practices have been enshrined in international treaties or, if the practice is already within international legislation, whether all or a majority of States, have signed on to them. The Conventions apply to all cases ofdeclared warbetween signatory nations. General (GEN) Tommy Franks, the U.S. Army former Commander of CENTCOM, has also defended Americas decision to go to war against the Saddam dictatorship in Iraq, stating that: The intelligence, while not precise, was overwhelming. [14] Derbyshire, 149.335 Prevention and Punishment of Breaches of LOAC, in Section Twelve: International Criminal Court and Enforcement, 149.335 Law of Armed Conflict, ibid., p. 10. The information the detainees in the CIA program revealed constituted more than half of what the CIA knew about al Qaeda. to inflict lawful pain and suffering on a law-breaking person, who has planned, acted and desired to inflict unlawful pain, suffering and death on innocent multitudes, in order to prevent acts of terrorism and thereby save the lives and limbs of countless, law-abiding citizens? To suggest that our intelligence personnel violated the law by following the legal guidance they received is insulting and wrong. Indeed, the international order continues to be founded on the 1648 Westphalian principles of State sovereignty, sovereign jurisdiction over territorial integrity and the principle of non-intervention, that has survived intact over many centuries despite many crises and upheavals to the system, not least WWI, WWII, the Cold War Superpower confrontation, and even the post-9/11 world. At present, 168 States are party to Additional Protocol I and 164 States to Additional Protocol II,this still places the 1977 Additional Protocols among the most widely accepted legal instruments in the world. In response, two Protocols Additional to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1977. United States, Jurisprudence Related to the Bombing of the U.S.S Cole. All civilians should receive adequate medical care and be allowed to go about their daily lives as much as possible. Its full respect is required. It also stated civilians may not be collectively deported or made to work on behalf of an occupying force without pay. [24] As Derbyshire states: The [New Zealand Defence Force] Manual of Military Law 1929 includes in its section on the Laws of War observations to the effect that there can, in the nature of things, be no finality regarding the law and usages of war. Your email address will not be published. Writings of highly-qualified legal experts. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a . In addition, children should be well cared for and educated, and the following is prohibited: In 2005, a Protocol was created to recognize the symbol of the red crystalin addition to the red cross, the red crescent and the red shield of Davidas universal emblems of identification and protection in armed conflicts. In order to be a Non-International armed conflict, either: (1) a minimum level of intensity in the hostilities must be reached, e.g. The riots were essentially a deliberate attempt to conduct reverse ethnic cleansing against the Kosovar Serb population, in direct if belated retaliation for the Serb ethnic cleansing that had been carried out against pro-independence minorities during the previous decade from 1991-1995 in Bosnia and Croatia (see blog #23 Caveat Chaos in Kosovo: Divided Allies & Fettered Forces in NATOs KFOR Operation during the 2004 Kosovo Riots). Common Article 3 the article common to all four of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 which alone treats Non-International armed conflict requires that, in addition to, In essence this means that, according to CIL, States acting as Detaining Powers must provide persons under their power with the most humane (human) treatment that each State is capable of providing, including adequate food and medical care, and that they should. After we implemented the CIA program, we briefed a small number of lawmakers from both parties on its existence. [15] Derbyshire, Section Four: When and to Whom Does LOAC Apply, p. 2, Section One: Introduction to LOAC and Historical Development, p. 3, and 149.335 Introduction to LOAC in Section One: Introduction to LOAC and Historical Development, p. 7, 149.335 Law of Armed Conflict, ibid. [31] [Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 2006] see S.C. Welsh, Terrorism Detainees: Geneva Convention Common Article 3, Centre for Defense Information Law Project, 2006, p.1, www.cdi.org, (accessed 16 January 2007) and L. Greenhouse, Supreme Court Blocks Guantnamo Tribunals, New York Times, 29 June 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/washington/29cnd-scotus.html, (accessed 23 April 2019). They charged that Americans had committed unlawful torture. [33] Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is prohibited to torture non-combatant civilians,hors de combatwounded, sick or PW military personnel,or other lawful combatants during an armed conflict. The worldwide campaign against Al Qaeda and other global terrorist networks along with their State sponsors or protectors, which began in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and continues in various forms against diverse Islamist terrorist entities (including ISIS) and in multiple conflict theatres around the globe to the present day, was termed the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American military and diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States. In fact, it is the duty of any serviceman or servicewoman to disobey superior orders, if those orders are manifestly unlawful under LOAC (i.e. [12] The Additional Protocols, dealing expressly with the two categories of International (Additional Protocol I) and Non-International (Additional Protocol II) armed conflict, were written in 1977 in order to reflect this reality, and to express international concern that the victims of Non-International armed conflict likewise be afforded basic protections under the LOAC, especially given the great danger posed by armed groups to the lives of ordinary civilians in these high-intensity and highly-violent internal conflicts. Yet as even a cursory examination of the history of the nation's laws of war shows, presidents from Washington to Reagan and beyond have long championed the idea of humane treatment of prisoners . Non-International armed conflicts typically involve civil wars in which: (a) the government of a State is using its regular armed forces to fight against one or more identifiable, dissident armed groups operating within the territory of the State; or (b) armed and hostile fighting is taking place between dissident, rival armed groups within a State, that does not involve the government, but nevertheless requires the government to act to restore security and stability to the State. The truth is that modern conflict has become so extremely complex, intractable and mixed in current times, displaying simultaneously features of both International and Non-International armed conflict especially in modern anti-terrorism campaigns waged against Islamist terrorist groups and terror-using insurgencies in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and Asia that it has created grey zones with regard to the appropriate LOAC that leave room for diverse legal interpretation between nations and new evolutions in customs of CIL. In this Protocol, the fundamentals of "humane treatment" were further clarified. The riots were essentially a deliberate attempt to conduct reverse ethnic cleansing against the Kosovar Serb population, in direct if belated retaliation for the Serb ethnic cleansing that had been carried out against pro-independence minorities during the previous decade from 1991-1995 in Bosnia and Croatia (see blog , (3) Unchecked ethnic cleansing in Kosovo involving the deliberate destruction or razing of homes in the cities as well as in the countryside (including the burning of entire villages and the forced displacement of their inhabitants), and targeted destruction of sites of great historical import or cultural significance to the local Serb civilian population, including multiple places of worship (one of which, like, The LOAC is comprised of international laws such as the Geneva Conventions, which, once ratified by individual Nation States, proscribe powerful and unequivocal obligations and duties on all individual members of the Nation States armed forces during any and every military conflict. In 1929, updates were made to further the civilized treatment of prisoners of war. They charged that Americans had committed unlawful torture. Within the vast body of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) that exists today, LOAC is the field of law that governs all international relations concerned with armed conflict, and is comprised of all international law relating to the existence and conduct of all armed conflict and military occupation. Internal security emergencies within a State, i.e. The Law of War requires humane treatment for military personnel who are out of combat (hors de combat) due to capture by enemy forces.
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