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Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Anton Schlögel
Anton Schlögel*
Affiliation:
Secretary-General of the German Red Cross in the Federal Republic of Germany
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It is known that the XXIst International Conference of the Red Cross voted a resolution (No. XVII) relative to the protection of the victims of non-international armed conflicts and by which it “asks the ICRC to devote special attention to this problem within the framework of the more general studies it has started to develop humanitarian law”. However, before the meeting at Istanbul, the author of the following article had already written a study on the subject entitled “Der Bürgerkrieg”, which is of topical interest and of which we now give extracts at some length in our own translation (Ed.).

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 10 , Issue 108 , March 1970 , pp. 123 - 134
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1970

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References

page 126 note 1 Junod, Marcel, Le Troisième Combattant, Lausanne, 1947 Google Scholar, Paris, 1967, with an English translation, Warrior without weapons by E. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Cape, London, 1951.

page 128 note 1 For these minor differences see F. Siordet, The Geneva Conventions and Civil War, supplements to the Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge, Vol. III, Nos. 8, 9 and 11, Geneva, August, September and November 1950.

page 131 note 1 Cf. J. Pictet, Commentary on the Geneva Conventions, vol. I, pp. 38–61 (comments on article 3 were edited by Mr. F. Siordet).

page 132 note 1 This is a general concept, covering the two following sub-headings. It should however be pointed out that it is essentially civilians who come under this definition.

page 132 note 2 Thought is here also given to members of the armed forces. This refers to persons who, in case of international conflict, are included amongst those given protection under Conventions I, II and III.