Lhe carnage committed by the Russian army in Ukraine concerns both the fighting forces and the civilians affected in their daily living spaces or in their workplaces. War is always accompanied by a procession of atrocities, and it is for this reason that the international community has relied on international humanitarian law to outlaw a number of weapons considered to cause excessive suffering.
Thus “asphyxiating gases” are prohibited by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, reinforced in 1972 by the Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological Weapons and on their Destruction, then by the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 1993. In 1980, the convention on the prohibition or restriction of the use of…
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