Military occupation
Military or belligerent occupation is hostile control[1] by a ruling power over a sovereign territory that is not part of the ruling power's own sovereign territory.[2] The controlled territory is called occupied territory, and the ruling power is called the occupant.[3] During a military occupation, the occupier has certain responsibilities to uphold public order.[4]
Hundreds of years ago, the old notion of "to the victor belong the spoils"[5] was replaced with the new notion that sovereignty was not to be taken from a state by force. Military occupation, which is a loss of a sovereign's control of a territory, but not a loss of sovereignty, was thus considered temporary. Ideally, a peace treaty would soon return control to the ousted sovereign.[6]
Examples of military occupation
Military Occupation Media
American tanks at the Victory Arch in the city of Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq, 2003
Indian troops of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in the city of Kure during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1946
- Prussian Troops Parade Down the Champs Élysée in Paris (1 March 1871).jpg
German troops at the Champs-Élysées in the city of Paris during the Prussian occupation of France, 1871
- Cedar Revolution Demonstrators.jpg
Lebanese protesters of the Cedar Revolution during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, 2005
- SBZ 1948 201A Berliner Bär.jpg
German postage stamp inscribed with "Soviet Occupation Zone" in the city of Berlin, 1948
- Hawara checkpoint 2.jpg
An Israeli soldier managing Palestinians at the Huwara checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, 2006
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References
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Benv: "For all those reasons, the utility of retaining the adjectives 'belligerent' or 'wartime' or even 'military' has become rather limited, as the trigger for international regulation is not the mode of assuming control by the occupant but the temporary suspension of the sovereign's authority."
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Benv: The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore and ensure, as far as possible, public order and [civil life], while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Benv: "the delegates to the Brussels and Hague Conferences conceived occupation as a transient situation, for the short period between hostilities and the imminent peace treaty, which would translate wartime victories into territorial concessions by the defeated party."
