Armed Conflicts And Plight Of The Civilians: Humanitarian Challenges In Northeast India

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Nameirakpam Bijen Meetei

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Humanitarian agencies and humanitarian laws not only strive to safeguard rights of  those who are harmed and injured during armed conflicts but they endeavour to warn the warring groups against hurting innocent people during violent clashes. However, it is argued here that the present-day wars are no more ‘world’. Contrasting to the world wars on which backdrop the International Humaniterian Laws came into existence, the prevailing armed conflicts are quite enclosed as these are confined to a certain areas under the name ‘ethnic conflicts’. The humanitarian challenges of the victims, nonetheless, remain the same as these are unregulated, often ignored hostility which sidelined humanitarian norms. In reality there is barely any country in the world devoid of ethnic conflict even if the blueprints of the conflicts are diverse. By giving a detailed account of the sufferers during a particular ethnic conflict in Dima Hasao district Northeast India, the paper maintains that when it comes to such politically motivated conflicts which are often ignored by international humanitarian agencies, victims barely get any relief or benefit from humanitarian laws.

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