This lecture presents the meaning of International Humanitarian Law. It gives a detailed explanation of the important words relating to the field of IHL.

1. Glossary and Definitions of the Terms used

2. NLIU, BHOPAL
BATCH 2016-2021
COURSE ON
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

3. PRESENTATION BY
Major General Nilendra
Kumar
President,
Akhil Bhartiya Vidhi
Pradhaypak Sangam

4. MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
 These are carried out on POWs and conquered
people for human experimentation as well as
substituted for the animals.

5. MERCENARIES
 Any person who is not a national of a party to
the conflict and who is promised material
compensation in excess of that paid to his
employer’s armed forces.

6. MILITARY NECESSITY
 These are actions that military forces are permitted
to take as the practical requirement, under the
military situations, at any given moment and the
imperatives of winning.

7.  There are three constraints upon the free exercise
of military necessity. Firstly, any attack must be
intended and tend towards the military defeat of
the enemy, attacks not so intended cannot be
justified by military necessity because they would
have no military purpose. Secondly, even an attack
aimed at the military weakening of enemy must
cause no harm to civilian, or civilian objects that
is excessive in relation to the concrete and direct
military advantage. Thirdly, military necessity
cannot justify violation of other rules of IHL.

8. MILLITARY OBJECTIVES
 These may be places, localities, facilities,
structures, and objects which make an effective
contribution to military action and whose total
or partial destruction, capture or neutralization,
in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a
definite military objective.

9. MINES
 Land Mines, both anti personnel and anti tank,
fall under the category of weapons that are
deemed to be excessively injurious or to have
indiscriminate effects.

10. PARAMILITARY
 A legal armed formation that is not integrated
into a regular armed force.

11. PARTISAN
 Is a Category of irregular who resist the
occupation of a country by a foreign power.

12. PERFIDY
 It is making someone believe a falsehood.
These are acts inviting the confidence of an
adversary to lead him to believe that he is
entitled to, or is obliged to accord protection
under the rules of international law applicable
in armed conflict with intent to betray that
confidence, shall constitute perfidy.

13. PERSECUTION
 It is the intentional and severe deprivation of
fundamental rights contrary to international
law by reason of the identity of the group or
collectivity.

14. POISONOUS WEAPONS
 Use of gases or other agents known to cause
disorders in a range of tissues in addition to
the brain and spinal chord and may thus be
responsible for abnormal growth of cells in
bone.

15. PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS
 The building, tent or other location and
premises where enemy prisoners detained in
course of a war are lodged.

16. UNNECESSARY SUFFERING
 Is the harm greater than that is unavoidable to achieve
legitimate military objective.

17. PROPERTY WANTON DESTRUCTION OF
 Vast and devastating damage to property
caused by indiscriminate attacks or whose
main purpose was to spread terror among
the civilian population.

18. THANK YOU

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Major General Nilendra Kumar