• SUNDAY JOHN APOCHI

This paper examines the legal rights of parties participating in a non-international armed conflict to detain an opposition member who is been captured during hostilities. This is an important concern since these non-state actors repeatedly deprive persons of liberty during armed conflicts. Unfortunately, International Humanitarian Law (IHL) does not explicitly provides for such actions in the conduct of asymmetric warfare in the 21st century. Thus, seemingly leaving this conduct to be regulated by domestic laws of a State concerned which, in general, only permits its own agents to carry out such acts. Therefore, armed opposition groups/terrorists group could never detain individuals legally in a non-international armed conflict. Nonetheless, this can be inconsistent in the application of the principle of equality of belligerents, which affirms that all parties to an internal armed conflict have the same scope of rights regardless of their cause.

Armed, Conflict, Group, International, Internment,

"EXAMINING THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF DETAINEES IN NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.1084-1093, December-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012344.pdf

"EXAMINING THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF DETAINEES IN NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no. pp1084-1093, December-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012344.pdf