Egypt Responsibility Toward The Foreigners As Victims In theE Chaos Situation Under The International Law

Abstract

Egypt hit by chaos since January 25, 2011, the biggest rebellion to the government that ever existed in the history of Egypt. The chaos that occurred in Egypt was initiated in January 2011 in which the consciousness of activists that has been very chaotic situation in Egypt appears. In the period between January 25, 2011 until February 11, 2011, there have been clashes between the demonstrators with Hosni Mubarak supporters, arrests, and looting. Chaos that occurred in Egypt has caused many victims of various parties, both citizens of Egypt and foreigners who are trapped in a situation very tense Egypt. Even some foreign journalists charged with covering the story and the situation there also being a victim. This research is a normative juridical research with qualitative descriptive method, which describes the situation and conditions associated with the content examined regulations related to the research title. The data of this study emphasizes the secondary data sources as the primary data obtained through the research literature. From research data after analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods, obtained results that the action should be done by Egypt to protect the foreigner in the chaos situation that is must always protect aliens in order to compensate the entry of foreigners into its territory. If the state fails to do this duty, it is considered as a breaches of international law. Although some countries there is no obligation to receive aliens in a territory, but when they receive it, then they have to perform protective actions against him. In international law a state is responsible for all acts of errors and crimes against foreigners in the country as a rule of state obligations towards the civilian population. Egypt has failed to meet the responsibility to protect foreigners under international law when chaos occurs. It can be seen from the presence of foreigners, both as journalists and ordinary civilians, who were victims during the unrest in Egypt. Including Imanda Amalia and CNN reporters. Therefore against the Egyptian state could be held accountable to the victims of the foreign citizen as a result of the riots in his country because the Egypt State breach obligations under international law that is negligent in giving protection to foreigners in the country that should be his responsibility. Key words: State responsibility, foreigners, chaos, international law