Legal Challenges in the Concurrent Application of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law to the Conflict in the Southern Border of Thailand

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Pimchanok Palasmith

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The conflict in the Southern Border Provinces (SBPs) of Thailand has been classified as a Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) under International Humanitarian Law (IHL). This article reappraises the conflict classification based on situational developments, against the requisite criteria of intensity and organization. The ramifications of the concurrent application of IHL and IHRL to the conflict will then be discussed. It argues that the application of both regimes to this context poses a number of legal challenges to affected persons, i.e., the enjoyment of the right to life, the right to liberty and the right to an effective remedy. Not only does it unnecessarily compromise the protection afforded by IHRL, it adversely affects the conflict as well.

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กฎหมายภาษาไทย

ประกาศ เรื่อง การขยายระยะเวลาการประกาศสถานการณ์ฉุกเฉินที่มีความร้ายแรงในเขตท้องที่จังหวัดนราธิวาส ยกเว้นอำเภอยี่งอ อำเภอสุไหงโก-ลก อำเภอแว้ง และอำเภอสุคิริน จังหวัดปัตตานี ยกเว้นอำเภอยะหริ่ง อำเภอปะนาเระ อำเภอมายอ อำเภอไม้แก่น อำเภอทุ่งยางแดง อำเภอกะพ้อ และอำเภอแม่ลาน และจังหวัดยะลา ยกเว้นอำเภอเบตง อำเภอยะหา อำเภอรามัน อำเภอกาบัง และอำเภอกรงปินัง. ราชกิจจานุเบกษา, เล่มที่ 142 ตอนพิเศษที่ 12 ง, วันที่ 20 มกราคม 2568.

ประกาศ เรื่อง กําหนดลักษณะความผิดอันมีผลกระทบต่อความมั่นคงภายในราชอาณาจักร ตามมาตรา 21 แห่งพระราชบัญญัติการรักษาความมั่นคงภายในราชอาณาจักร พ.ศ. 2551. ราชกิจจานุเบกษา, เล่มที่ 140 ตอนพิเศษที่ 239 ง, วันที่ 27 กันยายน 2566.

พระราชบัญญัติบังคับการให้เป็นไปตามอนุสัญญาเจนีวาเกี่ยวกับการปฏิบัติต่อเชลยศึก ลงวันที่ 12 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2492 พ.ศ. 2498. ราชกิจจานุเบกษา เล่มที่ 72 ตอนที่ 83, วันที่ 18 ตุลาคม 2498. (Implementation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949 Act, B.E. 2498)

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