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Legal advisers to the armed forces — The Swedish experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Krister Thelin
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Extract

In ratifying the 1977 Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Sweden pledged to inform and instruct the authorities responsible for the country's policy of “total defence” and their personnel, as well as the civilian population, on the rules of international law.

Type
Implementation of Humanitarian Law
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Issue 300 , June 1994 , pp. 255 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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Article based on a paper presented at a seminar on international humanitarian law in Sofia on 21 September 1990 by Krister Thelin, who was then Justice of Appeal and Legal Adviser to the Commander of Sweden's Southern Military Command.