International Humanitarian Law and regulations to prevent the deaths and injuries of the civilians during an international armed conflict

Abstract

Armed forces in any country are expected to use special expertise knowledge and skills to save the dignity of the state and its citizens without being negligent or without having failure and inappropriate commanding orders. Therefore it should have a serious examination on the existing laws and especially on the Geneva Convention -4, Article 3 which has specially focus on the noncombatants in international conflict. Even though there have been practicing numerous types of laws and regulations, it is been noticeable that these are somewhat ineffective in the present war field. This could leads to a zero respect towards the law. Inasmuch the objectives of this paper article efforts to examine the required standard of care by the international authorities, consider on the several articles and currently existing laws and regulations that are specially regard on the protection of unarmed civilians also, to identify the finding loopholes of the existing laws and provide suggestions on the existing laws. This research is a doctrinal type of research which reviews some past literature, analysis of past case studies and books in the area of the international humanitarian law. In the long run, there are millions of innocent civilians have been trapped in many war effecting areas helplessly without ant wrong on their hands. Therefore it is one of a massive and also an important duty to rescue them immediately as soon as possible. The International Humanitarian Law as the supreme law for the international armed conflicts is having that noble duty protect innocent civilians in endanger no matter in any circumstances occurs.