LOSS OF PERSONS REASONS AND MEASURES TO PREVENT LOSS OF PERSONS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Abstract

The disappearance of any missing person constitutes a tragedy for the individual himself and his family, which suffers from the lack of knowledge of his fate, as the phenomenon of loss has constituted one of the biggest human tragedies in many countries, and the suffering of those exposed to him and their families has increased, especially in the absence of pain from what happened to the husband, child, father, mother, brother or sister This, in turn, may lead to the risk of a contradiction in external relations, which in turn may lead to exposure to great danger in the local community, In the case of questioning whether its members are alive or dead, and moving forward becomes difficult for them because of their inability to forget the events that destroyed her life, other than the problems they face on the psychological, legal and economic levels, and their psychological suffering continues because of the wounds left by their disappearance. One of the family members, and this is one of the reasons why the social fabric is not healed, and that the subject of loss has been included in many legal and social studies, due to the spread of this phenomenon, which necessitated the establishment of measures to prevent their loss, which was represented by states spreading the rules of international humanitarian law, Conventional and customary international humanitarian law gives great importance to the issue of missing persons due to armed conflicts, whether international or non-international, and the adoption of bodies concerned with registering requests for loss and expediting search procedures and reuniting families separated due to wars or internal disturbances and tensions, by working on recording and sending information related to prisoners and detainees, and ensuring the exchange of family news, as well as searching for the missing and ensuring their right to know the fate of their missing persons, and establishing an official department for the registration of cemeteries.