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Title: | #3 Not exactly true, Rob. | |||
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| Name: | Johnboy | | |||
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| City: | Sydney | State: | Australia | | |
| RW: "anyone who has ever read article 49 of the said convention knows that annexation of occupied territory by the occupying power is illegal under International Law" Actually, Article 49 does not say that. It says that the occupying power is absolutely forbidden from colonizing occupied territory. The prohibition on the annexation of occupied territory is to be found in the Hague Regulations 1907, the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928, the UN Charter 1945, and the case law of the Nuremburg Tribunals and the Far East Tribunals of 1945, and the Rome Statute 1998. But not in the Geneva Conventions, no. THAT deals only with the rights and protections of CIVILIANS in wartime and under occupation, and not at all with the sovereign rights of nations. |
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