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Legal Article by Dr. Ahmed Faris Idris, Lecturer of International Humanitarian Law at the College of Law / University of Mosul on
The Anniversary of the End of World War I on November 11, 1918,,,
World War I 1914-1918 is the first major international conflict in the twentieth century, which was a shock through the positions and actions of both leaders and ordinary people during it. The echo of the conflict led to global division, which led to the outbreak of a second world war, during which the crime of genocide was committed under the cover of just wars. It was one of the most destructive wars in modern history, as it claimed the lives of nearly ten million soldiers who died as a result of hostilities. This number far exceeds the military deaths in all previous wars by a hundred years. In light of this, a series of treaties were imposed on the defeated countries (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey), especially Germany, which bore international responsibility for starting the war and for the enormous material damage. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 forced Germany to give up 13% of its territory and limit its armed forces, which led many citizens to associate the treaty with humiliation National defeat,
At eleven o’clock in the morning of November 11, 1918, the fighting on the Western Front stopped and the Great War, as its contemporaries called it, ended, but the wide-ranging impact of the conflict reverberated internationally and in the political, economic and social spheres for decades.