LEGAL PROTECTION TOWARDS CULTURAL PROPERTY IN ARMED CONFLICT IN THE EVENT OF SYRIA WAR

Abstract

In Syria, many cultural objects and cultural heritage have become the target of warfare. One of the many cultural objects affected includes world heritage sites, but unfortunately they have already been demolished because of the war in Syria. This Thesis comes as the conflict continues in Syria, bringing with it the extensive damage to, and destruction of, the country's cultural property. The provisions on the protection of cultural property during the period of armed conflict can be found in the Convention IV of respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, and Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the Two Additional Protocols. There are still many International Humanitarian Law instruments that contain the State's obligation to respect cultural objects in times of armed conflict. Some of the basic principles in it are recognized as International Customary Law.