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Bill: Humanitarian Act 1075
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2818
Description[?]:
| Antipersonnel mines are indiscriminate and inhumane weapons and therefore go against international humanitarian law. Here are some facts: - The vast majority of victims are civilians and not soldiers. - Most of the countries where casualties are reported are at peace. - Landmines slow repatriation of refugees and displaced people, or even prevent it altogether. - Mines also cut off access to economically important areas, such as roads, electricity pylons and dams. - Communities are deprived of their productive land: farm land, orchards, irrigation canals and water points may be no longer accessible. Rutania has a duty to clarify its position of landmines. It is one of the few nations yet to do so, and we at the LDP think we can follow the leadership shown by the majority of nations and ban these weapons that still maim and kill ordinary people every day. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The Government leaves this to the army to decide upon.
Current: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Proposed: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:10:51, September 10, 2009 CET | From | United Democrats | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | The NDPR support this whole-heartedly . |
| Date | 17:33:57, September 10, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | It is quite naive to believe that other states would follow our example and prohibit land mines. We would only weaken us. As a matter of fact the majority of the states have already prohibited land mines. But we do not wish to follow their example. Rutania has the right to be defensible. |
| Date | 18:21:08, September 10, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | We didn't say that other states would follow our example. We said we should follow the good example other states have shown. The International Committee of the Red Cross' 1996 study Antipersonnel Landmines - Friend or Foe? concluded that antipersonnel mines are not indispensable weapons of high military value and they don’t necessarily offer any military advantage. In fact "their use in accordance with military doctrine is time-consuming, expensive and dangerous and has seldom occurred under combat conditions", the group of military experts concluded. Landmines are not needed by a modern army. |
| Date | 18:23:09, September 10, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | We didn't say that other states would follow our example. We said we should follow the good example other states have shown. The International Committee of the Red Cross' 1996 study Antipersonnel Landmines - Friend or Foe? concluded that antipersonnel mines are not indispensable weapons of high military value and they don’t necessarily offer any military advantage. In fact "their use in accordance with military doctrine is time-consuming, expensive and dangerous and has seldom occurred under combat conditions", the group of military experts concluded. Landmines are not needed by a modern army. |
| Date | 13:00:57, September 11, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | We echo the sentiments of the REP, and our reasons for opposing this legislation are identical to those we alluded to in the recent legislation concerning the production and use of chemical and biological weapons. |
| Date | 23:08:22, September 11, 2009 CET | From | People's Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | Land mines are a defensive weapon, these are not armaments used in the persecution of peoples but in the protection of sovereign land. Rutania has the right to defend her land to the fullest of her ability. |
| Date | 23:46:37, September 11, 2009 CET | From | United Democrats | To | Debating the Humanitarian Act 1075 |
| Message | If a farmer wandering the fields gets lost and stumbles into a military zone, is he seen as a enemy combatant and does this justify blowing his legs off? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 63 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 152 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 90 |
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