Source: https://ihl-in-action.icrc.org/print/21164
Timestamp: 2020-07-09 15:08:49
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Home > Iraq, Peshmerga Forces’ First Code of Conduct
[Source: Kurdistan Regional Government, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Office of the Coordinator for International Advocacy, “Clarification on Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report, Kurdistan Regional Government: Allegations of Mass Execution”, 4 March 2018, pp 16, 17, available at https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/krg_response_march42018.pdf [1]]
[Source: Middle East Research Institute, “Compliance of Armed Forces with International Humanitarian Law”, May 2016, p. 3, available at http://www.meri-k.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Compliance-of-Armed-Forces-with-IHL-MERI-Policy-Note-May-2016.pdf [2]]
[Source: Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Peshmerga, Code of Conduct for the Peshmerga, 5 December 2018, available at http://mope.gov.krd/English/2018/11/13/code-of-conduct-for-the-peshmerga/ [3]]
1. How would you classify the situation in Iraq from 2014 to 2018 involving ISIS? Was there an armed conflict? If yes, who were the Parties to it? What additional information would you require in order to make such a determination? (GC I-IV, Art. 3 [4])
3. Does the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have a duty to regulate the conduct of the Peshmerga forces? Does IHL oblige Parties to the conflict to issue instructions and codes of conduct to their fighting forces? What is the role and importance of such instruments? (GC I-IV, Art. 3 [4]; CIHL, Rules 139 [5], 142 [6])
5. Is there an obligation under IHL to train commanders and combatants? To make legal advisers available for the armed forces? (GC I, Art. 47 [7]; GC II, Art. 48 [8]; GC III, Art. 127 [9]; GC IV, Art. 144 [10]; P I, Art. 82 [11], 83 [12]; CIHL, Arts 141, [13] 142 [6])
Source URL: https://ihl-in-action.icrc.org/case-study/iraq-peshmerga-forces-first-code-conduct
[1] https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/krg_response_march42018.pdf
[2] http://www.meri-k.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Compliance-of-Armed-Forces-with-IHL-MERI-Policy-Note-May-2016.pdf
[3] http://mope.gov.krd/English/2018/11/13/code-of-conduct-for-the-peshmerga/
[5] https://ihl-databases.icrc
[6] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule142
[9] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;docu
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[12] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/ART/470-750108?OpenDocument
[13] https://ihl-databases.icr