Assignment:
Read the following grading criteria and answer the questions below properly. EACH Answer Length is complete 50 words for EACH QUESTION. Provide all relevant good Legal sources in APA with their web links. Do not copy questions in your answer.
Instructions:
Please answer the following questions in At Least 50 Words Each, giving legal support in IHL treaty and/ or customary IHL for your answers: (Each answer must be cited with credible legal reference with their web links.)
1) Under what conditions are merchant vessels of neutral powers subject to capture outside territorial waters of neutral powers during an armed conflict?
2) What marks the beginning of the application of IHL and how does it differ during an international armed conflict, a non-international armed conflict and during prolonged occupation?
3) A military commander who deployed a military unit in Eastern part of the State to fight an organized armed group carrying out attacks against that State loses all kinds of communication with the deployed unit for 6 days.
During this period, the troops of the deployed unit engage in unlawful activities such as raping and murdering civilians. Discuss the culpability of the commander for war crimes committed by these troops in those 6 days.
4) Kindly enumerate judicial guarantees provided by international law instruments and also elaborate on if and when these guarantees may be derogated from.
5) Can genocide be committed against political groups to constitute a crime under Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2002? Please give reasons for your answer.
6) Define the legality and consequences of armed forces attacking a hospital that is not clearly marked by an emblem.
7) Armed groups X and Y are fighting each other from the territories of State A and State B respectively on the territory of State A. Classify the nature of the conflict.
8) Where there is doubt as to whether a civilian is taking direct part in hostilities or not due to their hostile attitude, is that person considered a legitimate military target?
9) Please explain the differences, legal and otherwise, between non-international armed conflicts and internal disturbances (e.g. riots and isolated acts of violence).
10) Does the fact that a soldier is unarmed have any bearing to legitimately targeting them under International Humanitarian Law?