Responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law

Abstract

Turning to history, it can be stated that all the time, mankind has experienced wars from time to time, both in the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the New Age, and even in the Modern Age. Note that the article examines the role of international humanitarian law and its influence on the world order, as well as the facts of the responsibility of some countries for crimes committed by them against other countries and their peoples. All international humanitarian law is built precisely on the fact that it is formally the "law of war", according to which the international community can at least somehow democratize and reduce the existing fact of war itself, for example, in the matter of prisoners of war, which appear in large numbers at the time of a country's military confrontation , and therefore it is necessary to regulate their rights in the captivity of the enemy and ensure their humane treatment towards them (Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War dated August 12, 1949). In our opinion, modern international armed conflicts are quite often started by the aggressor state without any announcement, as it happened in our case, and are carried out with the help of non-traditional forms of warfare. Note that in one case, wars cause the migration of entire peoples from one region to another, which causes economic and political instability, in the other - the almost complete destruction of a nation in the course of hostilities (The Thirty Years' War in Europe from 1618 to 1648, during which almost all of the hostilities were fought on the territory of modern Germany, as a result of which it lost 70% of its population, which was exterminated by the armies of other countries, and the economy of the German principalities was destroyed. With the consequences, the German people fought until the end of the 19th century). Therefore, the very fact of the emergence and continued improvement of international humanitarian law is one of the most important components that can ensure a decrease in the number of wars and related atrocities.