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Besides being established under numerous UN Resolutions, including UN Resolution 194, Fourth Geneva's Article 49 requires that persons forcibly displaced "shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased."
In addition, Principle 28 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement says it's the:
"primary duty and responsibility (of combatants and/or occupiers) to establish conditions, as well as provide the means, which allow internally displaced persons to return voluntarily, in safety and with dignity, to their homes or places of habitual residence."
Latroun villagers "hold an inalienable right to return to the OPT under instruments of international human right law....This right is held not only by those who fled to Jordan in 1967, but also their descendants, once they have maintained genuine links with the territory of origin." In addition, those unable to return or whose homes have been destroyed, are legally entitled to compensation for their loss and suffering.
Corporate Responsibility
Businesses benefit prominently from the spoils of war and occupation, yet their responsibility has "yet to be clearly defined or regulated by international law." However, "precedents....have arisen....primarily in the context of reparations for victims of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law."
The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor's finding is pertinent to Latroun and other occupied territories. It held that:
"Indonesian business companies, including State Owned Enterprises, and other international and multinational corporations and businesses (that) benefited from the occupation" must contribute to reparations to compensate East Timorese occupation victims.
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