By Martins Chiedozie Ugwu
In a Preparatory Document Drafted by the International Committee of the Red Cross for the First Periodical Meeting on International Humanitarian Law in Geneva, January 19-23, 1998, they wrote, ”A situation of this type has roots that go much deeper than a mere crime, rebellion or banditry.
It involves the implosion of national institutions, authority, law and order, in short the body politics as a whole. It also implies the breakdown of a set of values on which the State’s legitimacy is based, often resulting in a withdrawal of allegiance and the people…
