Friday, June 03, 2011

Let's Be Exact

The act of "settlement", of building/constructing a town or village, is not included in any possible "war crime" definition, according to the Geneva IV 1949 Convnetion:

Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.


Article 49
Part III : Status and treatment of protected persons #Section III : Occupied territories
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.

Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.

The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated.

The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place.

The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.

The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.


Nada on "settlement", "construction" or whatever.  On the other hand, the League of Nations granted Jews a very special right:

ARTICLE  6.


The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.

Well, well.  What do you say to that?

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2 comments:

Former Dosik said...

The genocide described in the "Torah" is a war crime at the behest of an imaginary god who was probably based on some local idol.

Time to move on. All that idol ever brought was strife.

Former Dosik said...

while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions

Suitable conditions. The Jews as always went too far. They ended up displacing "other sections of the population." And innocent people all over the world pay for that piggishness.