Lottery of Huruslahti
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The Lottery of Huruslahti (
It was the first application of the
The legality of the event has been debated: in modern terms, it would be considered a war crime. It was apparently embarrassing to the White leadership already at the time: there was no declaration of war, and the apparent legality was based solely on a military order, not on the law as conventionally required. The Senate considered the victims as "armed civilians". Without a particular law to authorize the death penalty, the executions were illegal. However, the newly independent state of Finland had not signed any treaties on the laws of war, such as the Brussels Declaration of 1874 or the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The general amnesty laws adopted[citation needed] after the war[when?] absolved all perpetrators from judicial responsibility.
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- ISBN 951-20-7051-0