After an absence of a couple of weeks and a summer silence on this blog, we are back. I've got a bit of catching up to do. I want to spend the next couple of days discussing some legal issues arising from recent media reports about the war in Afghanistan. Later this week, I will write about US targetting of drug traffickers in Afghanistan with links to the Taliban. Today I wish to address reports (see here, here and here) indicating that Taliban's leaders have issued a handbook containing a code of conduct for its fighters. In particular, I am interested in how this issuance of such a "code of conduct" may affect the determination of prisoner of war status in international armed conflicts. According to FoxNews: The handbook - written in Pashto and obtained through U.S. military sources - is entitled "Afghanistan Islamic Emirate Rules and Regulations," and it is addressed to the "Mujahideen Pashto," or Taliban commanders. Written on May 9 in Kandahar, the birthplace of…
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Has North Korea Terminated the Korean Armistice Agreement?
Seunghyun Sally Nam is 3rd Secretary for the Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. She is writing in her personal capacity and her views do not necessarily represent those of the South Korean government. In his recent post, Dapo…
The Korean War has Resumed !! (Or so we are told)
Readers may wonder how they missed such a momentous event as the resumption of the Korean War. Don't go scurrying to the TV or start clicking on those news sites just yet! There has been no use of force on the Korean Penninsula. However, it has been claimed that, as a matter of law,the Korean War has resumed.
The Application of Human Rights Treaties in Wartime
This year the EJIL has been marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by publishing a series of articles on international human rights law. The international human rights movement was birthed in response to the atrocities during the second World War. It is therefore appropriate to examine the extent to which international human rights…
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