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30 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 577 (1992)
Starvation as a Weapon: Legal Implications of the United Nations Food Blockade against Iraq and Kuwait

handle is hein.journals/cjtl30 and id is 585 raw text is: Starvation as a Weapon: Legal Implications of the United Nations Food Blockade Against Iraq and Kuwait RE1Ni PROVOST* INTRODUCTION ................................. 578 I. FACTUAL AND LEGAL BACKGROUND OF Tm FOOD BLOCKADE ................................... 578 A. Security Council Action .................... 578 B. Effect of the Food Blockade on Iraq and Kuwait ................................ 583 1. Degree of Food Autonomy ............... 583 2. Impact of the Food Blockade ............. 586 II. REGULATION OF CIVILIAN STARVATION AS A METHOD OF W ARFARE ................................. 589 A. The 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention ........... 590 1. Relief for Enemy Territory ............... 591 2. Relief for Occupied Territory ............. 593 B. Protocol I .......................... 1. Applicability ..................... 2. Article 54 ....................... 3. Article 70 ....................... II. CUSTOMARY HuMANITARIAN LAW AND CIVILIAN STARVATION ........................... A. Attempted Justification of Civilian Starvation . 1. Justification ..................... 2. Critique ........................ .... 598 .... 598 .... 602 .... 609 .... 616 .... 617 .... 617 .... 618 * LL.B. 1988, Universit6 de Montr6al; LL.M. 1991, U.C. Berkeley; D.Phil. Candidate, University of Oxford. Adjunct Lecturer of International Law, Lehigh University (1991). I wish to warmly thank Jemera Rone, Oscar Schachter and Shauna Van Praagh for their helpful comments and suggestions which greatly enriched the article. I also acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous financial support.

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