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Internal disturbances and tensions: A new humanitarian approach?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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The common terms “internal disturbances” and “internal tensions” cover a whole range of situations all characterized by acts of violence related to human rights violations and resulting in human suffering. These situations, now so common and widespread throughout the world, are typified by direct confrontations between police and opponents of a regime or by any of a variety of ethnic, racial, religious, ideological, economic or social tensions, which may likewise give rise to police action as a preventive measure.

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Internal Disturbances and Tensions
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 28 , Issue 262: Internal Disturbances and Tensions , February 1988 , pp. 3 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1988

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