A Study of the Legality of the Involvement of State B against Rebels on the Territory of State A

Mehran Asadzadeh; Dr. Akbar Mehdizadeh Roveshti

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2015

A Study of the Legality of the Involvement of State B against Rebels on the Territory of State A

Mehran Asadzadeh, Dr. Akbar Mehdizadeh Roveshti

Abstract :

Intervention against rebels by State B on the territory of State A is an issue which has repeatedly taken place around the world. Between the years 1946 and 2009, the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset has recorded many dozens of internal armed conflicts in which external interventions occurred— either on behalf of governments or of opposition groups, and many times by more than one intervening power. The legal framework which decides the legality or illegality of such an intervention needs to be properly determined given that attributing the concept ‘international’ to the same might be the ground for some to ‘legalize’ their interventions. The present paper takes into consideration a number of various permutations of the aexisting facts and their concomitant legal implications as far as Ius ad Bellum and Ius in Bello are concerned.