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Banning Landmines in the American Century |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Richard A. Matthew |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 4,853 Words, 32,117 Characters |
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Art. 15. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war….
Art. 16. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty--that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions…. in general, military necessity does not include any act of hostility which makes the return to peace unnecessarily difficult.
-- Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, 24 April 1863
Signed by more than one hundred forty states, the Mine Ban Treaty1 entered into force on March 1, 1999. Conspicuously absent from the signatori...
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...elieve, and the Administration believes, that you could actually pursue this thing on two tracks…. But we do believe that the appropriate forum to solve this problem is through the Conference on Disarmament, which is a U.N. instrument, and which involves a much larger number of countries than does the Ottawa process at this point." June 17, 1997.
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