Tempa Dorji, BA-LLB (Hons.), School of Law, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
ABSTRACT
International Humanitarian Law is also referred to as War law. The warring parties are governed by Geneva conventions and protocols relating to warfare. Indiscriminate attacks on residential infrastructures, organizational buildings like schools, hospitals, churches, and critical power supply, blunt killings of civilians, and non-combatants, and use of weapons of mass destruction are entirely prohibited under International laws. Nonetheless, there have been severe violations of human rights, mass destructions of civilian infrastructures, attacks on the critical power supply, and physical and mental torture of captured combatant and non-combatants forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24th February 2022. Therefore, this study will analyze the role of International Humanitarian Laws in present times particularly emphasizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Keywords: Geneva conventions, Protocol, Indiscriminate, mass destructions, human rights.
