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Human Rights, the Law of Armed Conflict, and Reprisals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

F. Kalshoven*
Affiliation:
Reader in International Law in the University of Leyden

Abstract

The Henry Dunant Institute is inaugurating its collection of scientific works with an important book by F. Kalshoven which is reviewed in this issue. We are pleased to publish below a paper which this writer delivered at the International Congress on Humanitarian Law in San Remo last September. (Ed.)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1971

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References

1 See International Review, 11 1970.Google Scholar

2 Conférence Internationale de la Paix, Proceedings, Vol. III, p. 46.Google Scholar

3 Conference of Brussels, De Martens, N.R.G. 2nd Series, Vol. IV, p. 139.

4 Brocher, Henri, “Les principes naturels du droit de la guerre”, Revue de droit international et de législation comparée, Vol. V, 1873, p. 349.Google Scholar

5 Draft Convention on Disarmament, Conf.D. 157 (1); Geneva, 16 March 1933.

6 Baron von der Heydte, “Le problème que pose l'existence des armes de destruction massive et la distinction entre les objectifs militaires et non militaires en général”, reports drawn up for the 5th Commission of the Institut de droit international, Exposé préliminaire, 1961, in Annuaire de l'Institut de droit international, 1967, Vol. II, p. 89 Google Scholar; Singh, N., Nuclear Weapons and International Law, 1959, p. 222 Google Scholar (unless “the first user of nuclear weapons destroys protected persons and property”: in that supposition “there would appear to be justification to retaliate in kind,… even though the provisions of the Geneva Conventions were being violated”).

7 Singh, op. et loc. cit. n. 7; Venezia, J.-C., “La notion de représailles en droit international public”, Revue générate de droit international public, Vol. 64, 1960, pp. 465 and 489.Google Scholar

8 As is suggested in the Commentary to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, published under the general editorship of Pictet, Jean S., I, p. 55; II, p. 36; III, p. 40; IV, p. 39.Google Scholar