DERECHO EN LA GUERRA

EL TRATO A LOS COMBATIENTES Y NO COMBATIENTES EN LOS CONFLICTOS ARMADOS MEXICAS

Abstract

For years it has always been seen, in the mexican popular view as the aztec warfare campaigns are a synonym of heroic companies that are generally supported by the Mesoamerican religious ideology,  which dampens any type of controversial actions on the part of the aztec against the conquered towns. The present work seeks to establish a balance of these positions, understanding that the forms of the aztec warfare dynamic and the ways of acting were not developed only in a simple religious ideology but in a law of war that in many occasions did not have the necessary legal foundations to limit the actions of the troops against the non-combatants, under the scheme of mesoamewhat we now call the "Law of war" and the "Just Warfare". In this way, it is sought to establish, under
the criteria of the Mesoamerican culture and the principles of war, what happened to children, women, men, inside and outside the military activity, and even to the precolumbian right I was interested in regulating this behavior. The bases of this research focus on historiographic sources of hispanic and indigenous tradition, as well as Legal Anthropology and Military History.