The War Report 2016: Page 28

3/7/2017

The number (10) and detail of belligerent occupations in 2016 was the same as in the preceding years (2015 and 2014).

Noho Kaua
Belligerent Occupation

... an IAC [International Armed Conflict] includes any situation in which one state invades another and occupies it, even if there is no armed resistance at all. This is set down in Article 2 common to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Other belligerent occupations that have been alleged include the occupation by the UK of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas (Argentina claims this as sovereign territory), of Tibet by China, and of the state of Hawaii by the USA. The War Report makes no determination as to whether belligerent occupation is occurring in these cases.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono

The object of this League is to affirm the continuity of Hawaiian independence; to restore Hawaiian national identity; to exert all peaceful and legal efforts to secure for the Hawaiian People and Citizens their Civil Rights; and to ensure that the United States of America complies with international humanitarian law.