Open AccessPelanggaran Prinsip Kemanusiaan terhadap Tawanan Perang di Penjara Abu Ghraib Ditinjau dari Konvensi Jenewa 1949
Author(s) -
Zuhri Triansyah,
Maratun Saadah
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
uti possidetis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2721-8333
pISSN - 2721-8031
DOI - 10.22437/up.v3i1.14776
Subject(s) - international humanitarian law , law , political science , geneva conventions , obligation , human rights , economic justice , liability , prison , state responsibility
This article discusses forms of legal responsibility regarding violations of humanitarian principles in humanitarian law against the treatment of prisoners of war in Abu Ghraib prison in terms of the Geneva convention of 1949. Legal liability is an obligation that arises from violations committed by individuals or the state because they are considered contrary to the law or conventions. applicable. This article uses a normative juridical method with the main source being legal materials containing normative legal rules. The results of the discussion of this article show that the principle of state responsibility related to human rights violations is realized by taking legal action against individual perpetrators and providing compensation to victims and is regulated in the Geneva Conventions. Second, the United States is responsible for the provisions stipulated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 concerning violations of humanitarian principles by bringing to justice the perpetrators who have violated humanitarian principles through the United States military court.