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Starvation as a War Crime
Geneva Conventions
The use of starvation of civilian populations as a method of warfare is prohibited by international law. State practice establishes this rule as a norm of customary international law applicable in both international and non-international armed conflicts.
The first significant step taken towards codifying the prohibition of starvation as a tactic of warfare was the adoption of the two Additional Protocols of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions,[6] which have been ratified by 174 and 169 states, respectively. The Geneva Conventions (“the Conventions”) refer to international agreements that are made up of four treaties and three protocols which define international legal standards for humanitarian treatment during conflict. Under the Conventions, not only is the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare prohibited, so too is the destruction of objects indispensable to the survival of civilian populations.[7]
The United Nations Security Council
Even though the Conventions have expressly prohibited starvation as a method of warfare since 1977, interestingly the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”) has only recognised conflict-related food insecurity as a peace and security issue since 2018, when it adopted resolution 2417.[8] Significantly, the resolution makes no distinction between international armed conflict (“IAC”) and non-international armed conflict (“NIAC”), instead resolution 2417 underlines that the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare may constitute a war crime – irrespective of the conflict classification.
The Rome Statue and the International Criminal Court
In 1998, the adoption of the Rome Statute (“the Statute”) represented an unprecedented international effort to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account. The Statute established the International Criminal Court (“the ICC”) in the Hague, which has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. Currently there are 123 State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC. Under the Statute[9] the ICC has the mandate to prosecute and investigate the war crime of deliberate starvation, however, when it was adopted Article 8 only applied in the context of IACs. Therefore, when the ICC became operational in 2002, the vast majority of victims of intentional starvation had no recourse to the Court, due to the fact that most armed conflicts since World War II have taken the form of civil war, rebellions or other non-international contexts, falling into the category of NIACs.[10]
The exclusion of the criminalisation of deliberate starvation in NIACs was only rectified a year after the UN Security Council resolution 2417 was adopted. In 2019, the Assembly of State Parties to the ICC addressed this critical gap in the Rome Statute’s accountability infrastructure by amending the Statute to include the war crime in the context of NIACs. The amendment, which was tabled by Switzerland, strengthened international efforts to combat starvation in all conflicts and aligned the Rome Statute with international humanitarian law and customary international law.
https://www.iiea.com/blog/the-rome-stat ... on-tactics
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