International protection of cultural property during armed conflicts | ||
| AL- Mouhakiq Al-Hilly Journal for legal and political science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 285-325 | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr.Haidar Kadhim Abd Ali and Ammar Murad Ghargan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Private protection of cultural property during armed conflicts The private protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict is one of the images of protection afforded by international law in general of the world's cultural heritage and international humanitarian law, in particular, as it relates to human beings and expressing subjectivity national cultural and civilization . This protection reflects expansion right scope of international humanitarian law which is no longer confined as was the case until the middle of last century, the protection of war victims from individuals and to alleviate suffering, but extended its scope to ensure special protection of cultural property in times of war came this expansion in the scope of the law international humanitarian law to include protection of cultural property as a natural consequence of what the legacy of war, whether international or non-international character over different historical eras many images of destruction and looting of cultural as our research deal with . As well as the difficulty of compensation that have been looted or fix what is destroyed of the cultural properties in general in the wake of World War II which prompted the international community to work to find the organization of an effective international legal protection of cultural property in times of war, which has resulted in these efforts for the adoption of the International Convention for the protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict in 1954 as the first international document aims to establish an international legal organization to provide special protection of cultural property . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| The development of international law; many of the provisions relating to the protection of civilian objects and cultural property; and the international humanitarian law; the first of guaranteed protection measures for cultural property; and also decided to protect places of historical; religious; artistic; Scientific; because of its historical significance and spiritual of nations and peoples; and by observing the behavior and actions of the occupation forces in Iraq; we find that it violated numerous provisions of international humanitarian law | ||
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