ABSTRACT
Between international armed conflicts to which the full laws of war apply and internal or civil wars to which a reduced regime applies there exists an intermediate category of conflicts to which some of the laws of war apply.94 This category has arisen only recently arisen and not without a degree of controversy. Such conflicts are described as ‘internationalised conflicts’ and arise by operation of Additional Protocol I (1977)95 which provides in Art 1(4) that the Protocol shall apply to ‘armed conflicts in which people are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes in the exercise of their right to self determination’.
