occupied territory


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occupied territory

Territory under the authority and effective control of a belligerent armed force. The term is not applicable to territory being administered pursuant to peace terms, treaty, or other agreement, express or implied, with the civil authority of the territory. See also civil affairs agreement.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Zahid Ashraf appealed to the UN and the democratic world to shun their indifference and immediately intervene to the impending human catastrophe in the occupied territory.
He made it clear that the statements on the social media are not going to work in regard to the freedom of the occupied territory of Kashmir and it's time to take practical steps with courage and realistic approach.
Defying curfew and other restrictions, people staged forceful demonstrations in different areas of occupied Kashmir, yesterday, to express their resentment against India's illegal and unilateral decision of repealing the special status of the occupied territory.
The Chairman of Kashmir Council EU, Ali Raza Syed, who is determined to continue protest against the genocide of oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir, said, India has sent a large number of extremists of the fanatic Indian organizations to commit brutal acts against the people of the occupied territory. .The Kashmir Council EU will also participate in a protest demonstration, tomorrow, in Paris, capital of France, and in a rally on August 24 in Germany.
The two Congress leaders were stopped from entering the occupied territory Kashmir.
President Masood said that the transfers of civilian population in the occupied territory by the Occupier are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a breach of Additional Protocol I and the Statutes of the International Criminal Court.
The Trump administration's appointment of David Friedman, an opponent of the two-state solution and an advocate of Israeli settlements in the occupied territory, as US ambassador to Israel and shifting the US embassy to Jerusalem, are two primal steps towards the execution of a nightmarish project for the Palestinians, that is, "Greater Israel" which would create a single de facto state ruled by the Jews who would have unqualified settlements in the occupied territory.
It stated that: The Court notes that Israel is first obliged to comply with the international obligations it has breached by the construction of the wall in the Occupied Territory. Consequently, Israel is bound to comply with its obligation to respect the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and its obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law ...
They "are involved in the construction of settlements and settlement infrastructure on occupied territory, in building a dividing wall which is also largely inside occupied territory, and in other violations of international law."
Rather, it reserves Chapters 3 and 5 for substantive offenses and defenses that may be applicable in a particular occupied territory. (8)
Traditionally, the "regime" or "government" form of State terrorism, is conducted by organs of the State against its own population or the population of an occupied territory, for the purpose of preserving a regime or suppressing challenges to its authority.