That is not the case here. Iraqi troops are driving before them perhaps 2 million Iraqi Kurds. These refugees are spilling over into Turkey and Iran. raising tensions and destabilizing the region. There can be little doubt that these events arein the words of article 39a "threat to the peace". In the words of Alan Ridings report to the New York Times which appeared this morning. Turkish officials note thatThey expected the number of Kurds fleeing Iraq to swell to one million in the coming weeks and that those are numbers that are simply beyond the scope of any sustained international relief effort. Thirty thousand refugees is a humanitarian problem. but one million. they argued. is a political problem. Iranian officials reportedly expect as many as 1.5 million Kurdish refugees from Iraq. Moreover. international law now governs even the conduct of a civil war. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War of 1949. it is absolutely prohibited to attack persons taking no part in the conflict.
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