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Peace-enforcement actions and humanitarian law: Emerging rules for “interventional armed conflict”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2010

Michael H. Hoffman
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 82 , Issue 837: The Kosovo crisis and international humanitarian law/La crise du Kosovo et le driot international humanitaire , March 2000 , pp. 193 - 204
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2000

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References

l As used in this article, the term “peace enforcement” refers to military operations conducted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and to similar operations conducted by intergovernmental organizations at the regional level.

2 Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts — Manual, Ministry of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany, 1992, para. 208.

3 Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, Briefing of 25 March 1999, http://www.mod.uk/news/kosovo/brief250399.htm.

4 In this article, the terms “international humanitarian law”, “law of war” and “rules of war” are used interchangeably to cover all aspects of the law of The Hague and of Geneva law. There is some disagreement as to whether the term “international humanitarian law” pertains to Geneva law only or whether it covers both.

5 UN Security Council Resolution 1244, of 10 June 1999.

6 Ibid., para. 10.

7 Letter from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, S/1999/682, of 15 June 1999. See the appended Military Technical Agreement between the International Security Force (“KFOR”) and the Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia, Art. 11(e).

8 Ibid., Appendix B(4).

9 NATO Press Conference, 26 March 1999, http://www.nato.int/kosovo/press/p990326a.htm.

10 Defense Link, US Department of Defense News Briefing, 22 May 1999, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May1999/to5221999_to522asd.html.

11 Ibid., 7 April 1999, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/April1999/to4071999_to407asd.html.

12 Ibid., 18 May 1999, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May1999/to5181999_to518asd.html.

13 Observance by United Nations forces of international humanitarian law, Secretary-General's Bulletin, ST/SGB/1999/13, of 6 August 1999. Reprinted in IRRC, No. 836, December 1999, pp. 812–817.

14 1907 Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, preambular para.