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Fossidarity wrote

Then what about a civil war? Is that seen as an international armed conflict?

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sudo wrote

That seems to be a bit of a legal grey area. According to this article, "The ICRC concluded in 2005 that customary international humanitarian law includes a ban on the use of chemical weapons in internal as well as international conflicts, and an appellate chamber in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) noted in 1995, in Prosecutor v. Tadic, that ‘there had undisputedly emerged a general consensus in the international community on the principle that the use of chemical weapons is also prohibited in internal armed conflicts’." So, it seems that there is no de jure ban on chemical weapons use in civil wars, but rather a de facto one (the ban is understood to extend to civil wars).

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