The earthworks for the existing international laws for laser weapons was set back the Geneva Convention of 1949. The Six Day War in the Middle East and the Vietnam War in the Far East has received much media attention, bringing home to the public the grim reality of war. After these two wars, the opinion in many countries and organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross / Red Crescent (ICRC) was that the Geneva Convention of 1949 were not sufficient for modern warfare and requiresRevision.
The four sessions of the Diplomatic Conference on the reaffirmation and development of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflict (Diplomatic Conference) from 1974 to 1977 have been completed for the two Additional Protocols (AP), instead of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. The AP did two rules on certain weapons, ammunition and above repeated conventional explosives, such as bans and expanding dum dum bullets can cause superfluous injury areand unnecessary suffering of victims.
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During a summit meeting of the 1979-1980 United Nations in Geneva, a contract and three protocols were adopted to prohibit certain weapons. During the year 1995 was a follow-up review conference in Vienna. During this conference, the participants decided to add a new protocol on blinding laser weapons of the Geneva Convention.
This new protocol, Protocol IV says: "It 'is prohibited to employ laser weapons specifically designed to fight as their only function or as one oftheir combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, ie with the naked eye or with the eye on what corrective devices of view ... "
In simple words, are the lasers that are designed for the blind to be illegal under international law.
In spite of this law in many countries invested billions in research and production of laser weapons. For example, the United States has allocated several million dollars worth of contracts for defense contractors such as Boeing and Northrop Grumman for theDevelopment, testing and production of laser weapons.
The countries that produce laser weapons are a loophole in the Fourth Protocol of the declaration, their weapons are not designed specifically for blind and there are legal. Blinding someone is much easier to kill them or destroy vehicles and even the most advanced laser weapon has a limited capacity, so that the future effectiveness of international law on laser weapons, remains to be seen.
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International laws for laser weapons
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