CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LAW, COOUJPPL VOLUME 2, NO 1, 20191WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION IN RELATION TO LAWS OF ARMED CONFLICT
Abstract
Under traditional international law, wars of national liberation were classified as civil wars, however, in contemporary time,it is classified as international armed conflictand as such the legal regimesapplicable in their regulation arethe Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol 1. This type of armed conflict is one in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and  alien  occupation  and  against  racist regimes  in  the  exercise  of  their  right to  self-determination.This work argues that by virtue of the Article 1(4) of the Protocol Additionalto the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1945, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, of 8 June 1977, parties involved in armed conflict of this nature shall be treated in compliance and due regard with the provisions of IHL regimes of lawsof armed conflictof international in character.
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