Abstract:
Refugee law protects the most vulnerable people in society. It provides, for those who fear
persecution in their home states, a catalogue of rights and protections in a safe country
elsewhere. It aims to ensure that those who cannot be protected by their state, through no
fault of their own, will be protected by the international community. But conflicts are
increasingly complex, and atrocities are frequently committed by both sides in combat. Fault
is becoming harder to determine and it is harder and harder to distinguish the persecutors
from the persecuted.