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30 Certainly, a captor cannot demand captives to act incompatibly with international humanitarian law (such as ordering them to shoot civilians or instructing them to act in a way that is in contravention of their legal rights as prisoners of war) and, if these demands are not complied with, determine that they have engaged in a hostile act and can be thus made the object of attack. It is prohibited to order that there shall be no survivors. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. The convention prohibits torture, assaults upon personal dignity, and execution without judgment. international humanitarian law] regulates the use of force against all combatants, military objectives, members of an armed group belonging to a party to the [international armed] conflict, and individuals directly participating in hostilities, irrespective of their location to any active battlefield: 86, In the context of non-international armed conflict international tribunals have at times concurred with the ICJ in the Nuclear Weapons advisory opinion and concluded that the legality of the use of force by states must be determined according to international humanitarian law criteria.Footnote Lubell, Noam, Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict (2005) 87 53 In 1949, after World War II, two new Conventions were added, and the Geneva Conventions entered into force on 21 October 1950. Second, this code of conduct (and so the legal obligation to accept surrender) applied only between knights who were within Christendom: the code [of chivalry] was intended to apply only to hostilities between Christian princes and was seldom applied outside that context, for example, in the Crusades.Footnote See Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (entered into force 21 October 1950) 75 UNTS 31, art 3; Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (entered into force 21 October 1950) 75 UNTS 85, art 3; Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (entered into force 21 October 1950) 75 UNTS 135 (GC III), art 3; GC IV (n 6) art 3 (Common Article 3). 117. 38 45 Persons who attempt to escape or commit a hostile act which means that they fail to submit to the authority of their opponent indicate that they are resuming participation in hostilities. Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. It is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. 126 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223717000279, Commentary to Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, Going Down with Flying Colours: Naval Surrender from Elizabethan to Our Own Times, How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender, Commentary on the HPCR Manual on International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare, Development and Principles of International Humanitarian Law, The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World, Saint Augustine and the Theory of Just War, The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law, Chivalry Without a Horse: Military Honour and the Modern Law of Armed Conflict, The Law of Armed Conflict: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, The Interaction of Christianity and Chivalry in the Historical Development of the Law of War, Military Necessity and the Culture of Military Law, Military Necessity and Humanity in International Humanitarian Law: Preserving the Delicate Balance, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict, Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law, On Target: Precision and Balance in the Contemporary Law of Targeting, Time for the United States to Directly Participate, Virginia Journal of International Law Online. Two additional protocols to the 1949 agreement were approved in 1977. The Laws of War on Land, 9 September 1880 (the Oxford Manual), art 9(b). [I]t is always permissible due to military necessity to attack the enemy's combatants. No destroying inhabited planets. It also grants the right to proper medical treatment and care. There is one instance where a party to an armed conflict is legally required to offer opposing forces the opportunity to surrender before direct targeting can commence. 1985) 6Google Scholar. In particular, it was the cruelties of the Thirty Years War that ultimately led to the jurisprudential consideration of the jus in bello [the law of war] and established a number of principles to be observed by combatants.Footnote See generally In essence, then, whether the discarding of weapons (where a person is in possession of weapons) and placing hands above the head or waving a white flag constitute an effective method of expressing an intention to surrender boils down to whether such conduct is supported by state practice. In addition, Rule 48 of the ICRC Study explains that in times of international and non-international armed conflict, customary international law prohibits making persons parachuting from an aircraft in distress the object of attack.Footnote ICRC, The Law of Armed Conflict: The Conduct of Operations: Part A, June 2002, 19, https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/law3_final.pdf. Other emblems were later recognized, and the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the main topic of this article, confirmed them all. O'Connell (n 19) para 109. As art 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice explains, customary international law forms on the basis of general [state] practice accepted as law: Statute of the International Court of Justice (entered into force 24 October 1945) 1 UNTS XVI, art 38(1)(b). The law of international armed conflict defines civilians in negative terms as those persons who do not qualify as combatants.Footnote Is specially recruited locally or abroad, 2. . The act of surrender possesses a political, military and legal dimension. This article has explored state practice with the aim of clarifying the criteria that give rise to an effective act of surrender under conventional and customary international humanitarian law in times of international and non-international armed conflict. Hague Convention (II) with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its Annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (entered into force 4 September 1900) 26 Martens Nouveau Recueil (ser 2) 949. The Geneva Convention is a standard by which prisoners and civilians should be treated during a time of war. 77 This being said, the regulation of armed conflict was skeletal and said very little about how surrendering forces had to be treated. The Lieber Code is often regarded as providing the foundation for subsequent attempts to regulate warfare. It defines their rights and sets down detailed rules for their treatment and eventual release. 64 Luban, David, Military Necessity and the Culture of Military Law (2013) 26 130 A battlefield surrender, either by individuals or when ordered by officers, normally results in those surrendering becoming prisoners of war. 6 United Kingdom, Joint Service Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict (2004) paras 10.510.5.1. They shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction. A request to advance across the battlefield to enter into negotiations is made by waving the white flag, which then must either be accepted or rejected by the opposing force. Section 4 provides some conclusions. For instance, in practice, the white flag has come to indicate surrender if displayed by individual soldiers or a small party in the course of an action.Footnote GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR OF 12 AUGUST 1949 PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Specifically, it required POWs to give only their names, ranks,and serial numbers to their captors. Many bands took no prisoners, not even children or young women. A person hors de combat is: (a) anyone who is in the power of an adverse party; (b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, shipwreck, wounds or sickness; or. The ICRC, for example, expressly considers and then rejects this contention: Melzer (n 57) 70. [1] It is this version of the Geneva Conventions which covered the treatment of prisoners of war during World War II. 88 The obligation to accept offers of surrender and to refrain from directly targeting persons who have surrendered is justified on the basis that there is no military necessity to target those who no longer intend to participate in hostilities, and that such conduct represents an unacceptable affront to human dignity. [12], The Program for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, "IHL PRIMER SERIES | Issue #1" Accessed at, alleged false surrender of British troops at Kilmichael, "Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. 94 Pictet, Jean, Development and Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Martinus Nijhoff Section 5 The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented at the Diplomatic Conference held at Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949, for the purpose of revising the Geneva Convention for the Relief of the Wounded and . With regard to non-international armed conflict, Article 4 of Additional Protocol II delineates a number of fundamental guarantees and specifically states: All persons who do not take a direct part or who have ceased to take part in hostilities, whether or not their liberty has been restricted, are entitled to respect for their person, honor and convictions and religious practices. Neither treaty law, including the relevant commentaries, nor military manuals indicate that retreat is indicative of surrender. The ICRC's Interpretive Guidance provides a fuller discussion of when a person can be regarded as directly participating in hostilities: Melzer (n 57) 4164. 89 British officer shocked by treatment of prisoners as 'oriental cattle' Owen Bowcott @ owenbowcott Thu 2 Jan 2003 20.58 EST US troops guarding communist captives in the Korean War violated the. Additional Protocol II (n 49) art 13(1). 138. Three conventions followed: in 1906, 1929 and 1949. Nations party to the Convention may not use torture to extract information from POWs. The Brussels Manual of 1874, although never attaining the status of treaty law, also precluded the refusal of quarter.Footnote This is the original sense of applicability, which predates the 1949 version. Armed conflict in ancient Greece was therefore largely unregulated and, in particular, the Greek code of honor offered no protection to surrendering soldiers.Footnote 134 Ms Evans is wrong to claim that, under the Geneva Convention, refugees should seek refuge in the first safe country they come to. Given their legal immunity from direct targeting, civilians do not have the legal capacity to surrender. Broadly speaking, the law of international armed conflict distinguishes between two categories of people: combatants and civilians. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (as amended 21 December 2001) (entered into force 2 December 1983) 1342 UNTS 137. 23 This has been consistently interpreted as imposing a treaty obligation upon parties to this Protocol to accept valid offers of surrender.Footnote For the purpose of clarity, it must be stressed that the legal obligation imposed by the rule of surrender is that opposing forces cannot directly target surrendered persons. Where, however, a confrontation occurs between a state and an armed group within that state's territory, and that state exercises control over the situation, the members of the armed group are under the jurisdiction of the state and this is a scenario that typically points to human rights as the lex specialis.Footnote 105 93 In principle, the right not arbitrarily to be deprived of one's life applies also in hostilities. [12] Note: This article addresses the international humanitarian law, or law of war. 19 The Geneva Conventions are a series of treatieson the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat (French, literally "outside the fight"), or incapable of fighting. But in wars against outsiders, infidels, or barbarians, the West had inherited a brutal legacy from the Romans which they termed bellum romanum, or guerre mortellle, a conflict in which no holds were barred and all those designated as enemy, whether bearing arms or not, could be indiscriminately slaughtered: Michael Howard, Constraints on Warfare in Howard, Andreopoulos and Shulman (n 12) 1, 3. Have persons who are attempting to surrender engaged in a positive act which clearly indicates that they no longer intend to directly participate in hostilities? which stipulates that in times of an international armed conflict it is a war crime to kill or wound a person who, having laid down his arms or having no means of defence, has surrendered at discretion. 115 The ICC Statute goes farther than the Fourth Geneva Convention. However, where persons parachute from an aircraft and are not in distress, or are in distress but nevertheless engage in a hostile act, a threat to military security is present and they may be made the object of attack. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva July 27, 1929. Liivoja, Rain, Chivalry Without a Horse: Military Honour and the Modern Law of Armed Conflict in Liivoja, Rain and Saumets, Andres (eds), The Law of Armed Conflict: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Tartu University Press Prisoners of War are supposed to be protected and provisioned for. In the words of the United States Law of War Deskbook (which is distributed as part of the Judge Advocate Officer Graduate and Basic Courses), the burden is upon the surrendering party to make his intentions clear, unambiguous, and unequivocal to the capturing unit.Footnote Given that most armed conflicts today are non-international, applying Common Article 3 is of the utmost importance. Law and History Review 469, 47677CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Statute of the International Court of Justice (n 41) art 38(1)(b). [11] This prohibition is repeated in Additional Protocol II, which adds that "it is prohibited to order that there shall be no survivors". It requires that the wounded, sick and shipwrecked be collected and cared for. The offer to surrender must be clear and unconditional: US Law of War Manual (n 68) para 5.9.3.2. Italy is perhaps the only country whose flag. [A]ll persons who are neither members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict nor participants in a leve en masse are civilians: Additional Protocol I (n 6) art 50(1). Additional Protocol I (n 6) art 51(3). 54 42, Nowadays, the customary international law status of the rule of surrender is confirmed by the fact that a significant number of military manuals adopted by states which represent important sources of state practice when identifying obligations under customary international humanitarian lawFootnote 8 134 Put otherwise, conduct that was not necessary to hasten the war's end was prohibited. Afflerbach, Holger, Going Down with Flying Colours: Naval Surrender from Elizabethan to Our Own Times in Afflerbach, Holger and Strachan, Hew (eds), How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender (Oxford University Press To illustrate, it may not be reasonable or feasible to expect a combatant or fighter who engages his or her enemies at speed and at night to identify an offer of surrender and, as a result, refrain from making them the object of attack. The ICRC insists that customary international law also imposes an obligation to refrain from targeting those who have surrendered, yet Rule 47 of the ICRC Study provides no further guidance on what conduct constitutes a legally effective surrender, stating merely that a person is immune from attack where he or she expresses an intention to surrender. 120, Surrender is a legal exchange constituted by a valid offer and its subsequent acceptance.Footnote First, this code of chivalry applied only to interactions between recognised knights. 118 The document has no provisions for punishment, but violations can bring moral outrage and lead to trade sanctions or other kinds of economic reprisals against the offending government. Marsh, Jeremy and Glebe, Scott L, Time for the United States to Directly Participate (2011) 1 Specifically, it prohibits attacks on civilian hospitals, medical transports, etc. 125 the consequence would be that where a situation is under the control of a stateFootnote However, because military necessity was defined so broadly (securing the ends of the war) it essentially became a doctrine of deference to military judgment about what is really militarily necessary.Footnote Dominican Republic, La Conducta en Combate segn las Leyes de la Guerra, Escuela Superior de las FF.AA. Unlike international armed conflicts, the law of non-international armed conflict does not expressly define the concept of civilian notwithstanding the fact that treaty law applicable to non-international armed conflict uses the term civilian on a number of occasions.Footnote In 1907, the international community convened the first of a series of diplomatic conferences that endeavored to codify the "laws and customs of war." The first of these conferences was the 1907. it is a war crime to make the object of attack persons who have surrendered. It also identified new protections and rights of civilian populations. 127 For this reason it is a cardinal principle and intransgressible rule of international humanitarian law that civilians cannot be directly targeted.Footnote 50 Article 23 of both the Hague Conventions II (1899)Footnote That the onus is upon those wishing to surrender to indicate unambiguously that they no longer intend to take a direct part in hostilities explains why international humanitarian law does not impose an obligation upon an opposing force to first offer its enemy the opportunity to surrender before making them the object of an attack,Footnote Belgium's Teaching Manual for Soldiers also supports this approach, stating that the intention to surrender may be expressed in different ways: laying down arms, raised hands, white flag.Footnote Although r 15 of the ICRC Study (n 6) requires precautions to be taken to avoid or minimise incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilians, r 15 should be read as an obligation to avoid or minimise harm to non-military objects generally (including those hors de combat). Paul Cartledge, Surrender in Ancient Greece in Afflerbach and Strachan (n 2) 15, 21. 87 Lubell (n 80) 750. All the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, to whichever Party they belong, shall be respected and protected. Commenting upon the incident, Roberts correctly notes that while [s]urrender is not always a simple matter, the legal advice of the US military lawyer that ground forces cannot surrender to aircraft, and thus offers of surrender in such circumstances can be permissibly refused was dogmatic and wrong.Footnote Seven new ratifications since 2000 have brought the total number of States Party to 194, making the Geneva Conventions universally applicable. 19 By way of illustration, during the Falklands Conflict the Director of the United Kingdom (UK) Army Legal Services stated that where enemy combatants had surrendered but UK armed forces continued to come under fire from other enemy combatants, UK forces were entitled to remain in their positions and demand that surrendered persons advance forward. indeed, surrender is 'one of the most important rules' 1 of international humanitarian law because it is the ' [principal] device for containing destruction and death in our culture of war'. During prehistoric times tribal societies engaged in almost constant armed conflict. As such, the active hostilities framework [i.e. The US Law of War Manual reiterates this view: Enemy combatants remain liable to attack when retreating. 79 All persons protected under these conventions must be given shelter and cared for by the party to the conflict that holds power over them. Such persons are known as parlementaires. 113. 64 Fighters include those persons who are formally incorporated into a state's armed forces via domestic law and those members of an organised armed group who belong to a state that is party to the armed conflict and who possess a continuous combat function.Footnote Yet, the threat they represent can be repudiated, and thus immunity from direct targeting acquired, where they perform a positive act indicating they no longer intend to participate in hostilities that is, they surrender. In the words of the Committee, the police action was apparently taken without warning to the victims and without giving them any opportunity to surrender to the police patrol or to offer any explanation of their presence or intentions: Human Rights Committee, Suarez de Guerrero v Colombia, Communication No. 91 The Oxford Manual of 1880, a non-binding document produced by the Institute of International Law, explained that it was prohibited to injure or kill an enemy who has surrendered at discretion or is disabled, and to declare in advance that quarter will not be given, even by those who do not ask it for themselves.Footnote Also the Geneva convention only exists on our planet and even then not every country follows it. 48 Additional Protocol I (n 6); Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (entered into force 7 December 1978) 1125 UNTS 609 (Additional Protocol II). [7], The Third Geneva Convention states that prisoners of war should not be mistreated or abused. [9], While not a formal military law, the Code of the US Fighting Force disallows surrender unless "all reasonable means of resistance [are] exhausted and certain death the only alternative": the Code states, "I will never surrender of my own free will. [T]ribal and pre-state societies seldom [took] prisoners and usually [did] not accept surrender: Lawrence H Keely, Surrender and Prisoners in Prehistoric and Tribal Societies in Afflerbach and Strachan (n 2) 7, 7. The Geneva Convention (1929) was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929. [6] Normally, a belligerent will agree to surrender unconditionally only if completely incapable of continuing hostilities. Any males of fighting age or the elderly that fell into band warriors power were simply killed. Does the act of retreat amount to conduct that signals an intention to surrender under either treaty or customary international law? The Schedules. Civilians are liable to direct targeting for such timeFootnote One would usually expect to find the answers to these questions in those international humanitarian law treaties that contain the rule of surrender. As civilians do not directly participate in hostilities they do not pose a threat to the military security of the opposing party. It is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. Types vary greatly andinclude traditional civil wars or internal armed conflicts that spill over into other States, as well as internal conflicts in which third-party States or multinational forces intervene alongside the government. 2. The ICRC Study is not a source of international law but instead intends to capture and delineate customary rules of international humanitarian law applicable to international and non-international armed conflict: ibid xxiv. 128. Hostname: page-component-75cd96bb89-gxqps Upholding the rules Since then, the rules of war have been ratified by 196 states.. 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