Miller seems to complicate the issue, however, by stating that as unlawful
combatants engaged in deliberate harm to innocent civilians, (36) terrorists will be both "military
combatants" and "subject to a criminal justice process analogous to that to which ordinary criminals are subject" once identified as unlawful
combatants "by an appropriately instituted judicial body." (37) It is therefore unclear whether he means that this kind of
combatant has the right to use discriminate force--that is, to target state
combatants and kill them without incurring legal liability for the criminal charge of murder.
The exact number of demobilized
combatants who benefited from reintegration assistance remains unclear because about one-third participated in parallel reintegration programs, which did not always verify the ex-combatant status of beneficiaries, and others accepted "proxies," that is, participants who were using someone else's demobilization card.
The Israeli military claims 1,166 Palestinians were killed in the offensive it dubbed Operation Cast Lead - 709
combatants, just 295 civilians and 162 people whose status it was unable to clarify.
* Allowing the executive to exercise such discretionary power over those it labels "enemy
combatants" undermines the purpose of a congressional law prohibiting the unilateral indefinite detention of citizens.
The United States government, he affirmed, "has every right to capture and detain enemy
combatants ...
Hanft, (21) and by references to attempts to define the scope of the Government's authority to detain and try enemy
combatants in Ex parte Quirin (22) and Ex parte Milligan.
Despite its basic role in the normative appreciation of war, the doctrine of moral equality of
combatants is not beyond dispute.
Sobejana said the training aims to equip the former MILF
combatants to become competent peacekeeping forces prior to their deployment at the six identified MILF camps on Sept.
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In a Palace briefing, Galvez said around 1,206 MILF
combatants and 920 weapons would be deactivated in a ceremony as part of the normalization process of the peace accord.
Two senators on Tuesday said the government should closely monitor the implementation of the normalization program for the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), particularly the decommissioning of former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
combatants.