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Human Rights in Internal Strife: Their International Protection. By Theodor Meron. Cambridge: Grotius Publications Limited, 1987. Pp. xiii, 172. Index, £27; $48.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Howard S. Levie*
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University Law School, Emeritus

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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References

1 M. Bedjaoui, Law and the Algerian Revolution 213 (1961).

2 The situations in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Afghanistan are discussed at pp. 47–50.

3 International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977: Signatures, Ratifications, Accessions and Successions as at 31 December 1987.

4 See, e.g., pp. 23–26, 51–63, etc.

5 Art. 1(2), 1977 Protocol II, reprinted in 16 ILM 1442, 1443 (1977).

6 Hay, The ICRC and International Humanitarian Issues, Int’l Rev. Red Cross, No. 238, Jan.-Feb. 1984, at 3, 9.

7 For support of this position, see the negotiating history of Article 1 of Protocol II in H. Levie, The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict 23–90 (1987).