Are and what do the classical principles of International Humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban contexts of warfare with densely Populated Areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are you are awfully geishas to precaution and the obvious that i see or see as the advocate for protection of civilians may not always have the same. Appreciation and the same exactly according to judge military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the human need protection perspective and the military necessity perspective now there has been no one whos been lambasted more for supposin disregard total disregard of the humanitarian law and. The syrian authorities and i take it from some of your interviews that this phrase total disregard may not be accurate in describing the stance of the of the Syrian Government in fact i know that the i. C. R. C. Has done a study looking specifically into wher
Russias observance of the laws of war in syria on itself and relative to other partners other actors well you can easily imagine i. C. R. C. Is not here to judge we kick you late concerns obviously one of the big issues that we have seen recently in yemen in iraq in syria in all the context in the middle east is for instance urban warfare and so one of the Big Questions today also in the experiences of the past couple of years is always what are what to the classical principles of International Humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban contexts of warfare with densely Populated Areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are you would offer the geishas to precaution and the obvious that i see or see. We as a for protection of civilians may not always have the same. Appreciation and the same exactly according to judge military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the humanitarian
Russias observance of the laws of war in syria on itself and relative to other partners other actors well you can easily imagine i. C. R. C. Is not here to judge we kick you laid concerns obviously one of the big issues that we have seen recently in yemen in iraq in syria in all the context in the middle east is for instance urban warfare and so one of the Big Questions today also in the experiences of the past couple of years is always what are what to the classical principles of International Humanitarian law distinction proportionality precaution mean when you are confronted with urban complex so for fear with densely Populated Areas in which you use modern technology modern weapons and what are you would offer the geishas to precaution and. Its obvious that i see or see as the advocate for protection of civilians may not always have the same. Appreciation and the same exactly according to judge military operations us military story so its really about this dialogue between the huma
Difficulties as technologies battlefields actors and contexts evolve to apply the basic rules of International Humanitarian law so each case has to be looked at individually we dont have armed forces or armies or nonstate our groups just only does regarding International Humanitarian law this happens very very we dont have those who spoke perfectly so we do recognize that the syrian context has always been a difficult context its a context of fragmented actors of multiple actors of unclear chains of command. Certainly on the level of nonstate armed groups but even complex chains of command in the syrian. On the side of the syrian army we have seen the complexities also with russias involvement in syria of how you partner were. Amongst toward me is where are the rules and responsibility of each one of those armies and i think this workshop that you have alluded to is a great opportunity to look at someones dislike or just will not be publicized trying to get some information out if you
That that made it much more difficult for international for the major donors and International Organizations to partner with the zimbabwean government and so we see currently the government is is trying to undertake reforms but it is very very difficult for it to get the International Support of the franklin frankly the cash injection it needs from overseas while the zanu p. F. Government is not trusted internationally all right thank you so much for your time thank you for talking to us ben payton an independent strategic consultant specializing in south africa joining us now from london we appreciate your time still ahead on aljazeera a new cabinet for so don including an historic freeze says a woman takes charge at the foreign ministry. Hello again its good to have you back we are seeing some rain here across parts of thailand that has been the trend over the last week or so were going to get a slight break here on saturday in some locations bangkok you can see a break as well we do