White Paper on the Application of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 to the French-Algerian ConflictAlgerian Office, 1960 - 85 pages |
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... Army of National Liberation ( A.L.N. ) — was developed into a regular armed force with all the characteristics and qualifications of an organized army 1. Its members carry modern ... French forces fighting in Algeria include the regular LO 5.
... Army of National Liberation ( A.L.N. ) — was developed into a regular armed force with all the characteristics and qualifications of an organized army 1. Its members carry modern ... French forces fighting in Algeria include the regular LO 5.
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Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī. Today the French forces fighting in Algeria include the regular army with more than 500,000 men , 1 about two - thirds of the French air force and half of its navy . In addition to all of the professional ...
Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī. Today the French forces fighting in Algeria include the regular army with more than 500,000 men , 1 about two - thirds of the French air force and half of its navy . In addition to all of the professional ...
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... French army ; 100,000 Algerians are held in military internment centers , transit and interroga- tion centers , detention camps and prisons ; and more than 300,000 Algerian men , women and children live as refugees in neighboring ...
... French army ; 100,000 Algerians are held in military internment centers , transit and interroga- tion centers , detention camps and prisons ; and more than 300,000 Algerian men , women and children live as refugees in neighboring ...
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Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī. Statements of two French soldiers , Michel Risse and M. Villette , liberated by the A.L.N. ( Army of National Libera- tion ) in December , 1956 : ( Interview published in France Soir , December 27 , 1956 ) ...
Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī. Statements of two French soldiers , Michel Risse and M. Villette , liberated by the A.L.N. ( Army of National Libera- tion ) in December , 1956 : ( Interview published in France Soir , December 27 , 1956 ) ...
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... French Government to deal with the Algerian conflict result in the adversaries of France being treated as " common criminals " . Members of the Army of National Liber- ation who fall into enemy hands therefore are not considered by the ...
... French Government to deal with the Algerian conflict result in the adversaries of France being treated as " common criminals " . Members of the Army of National Liber- ation who fall into enemy hands therefore are not considered by the ...
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Ahmed Francis Ain-Isser Aissat Idir Algerian civilians Algerian conflict Algerian Front Algerian Republic Algerian Revolution Algiers Appendix armed forces Army of National arrested basic humanitarian principles Center of Transit charged with Justice command Commission communique concerned Conference of 1949 Council of Ministers court death decree delegation detention Diplomatic Conference Djamila Bouhired Ferhat Abbas four Conventions France Soir Frederic Siordet French army French Government Front of National geria Guy Mollet human ICRC inhuman inmates International Committee internment camps January Kabylie Krim Belkacem Lakhdar Ben Tobbal Le Monde Maitre Verges March 16 ment military authorities Minister in Algeria mission Monde Moslem National Defense National Liberation officers organized outlined in articles parachutists Paris Parties permanent tribunal police present Convention prisoners protection Provisional Government rebels refugees reprisals Rights and Liberties Robert Lacoste soldiers territory Third Geneva Convention tion Transit and Interrogation Tunisia United Nations village Wilaya wounded
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Page 26 - ... violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking of hostages ; (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment ; (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
Page 61 - Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions : (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates ; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at...
Page 59 - In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum...
Page 59 - Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Article 51 of the 1949 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked members of Armed Forces at Sea, Article 130 of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War...
Page 62 - Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it had originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment. (2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article,...
Page 63 - Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict...
Page 62 - Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
Page 62 - The inhabitants of a territory which has not been occupied, who, on the approach of the enemy, spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading troops without having had time to organize themselves in accordance with Article 1, shall be regarded as belligerents if they carry arms openly and if they respect the laws and customs of war.
Page 62 - Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
Page 59 - Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause...