Djibouti
Practice Relating to Rule 110. Treatment and Care of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked
Djibouti’s Disciplinary Regulations (1982) states: “Combatants must … protect and care for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked insofar as operational circumstances permit”.
The Regulations also states: “Sick and wounded prisoners must be handed over to the medical service.”
Djibouti’s Manual on International Humanitarian Law (2004) states with regard to “wounded enemy combatants”: “[C]ollect them [and] … protect them.”
In 2010, in the History and Geography Textbook for 8th Grade, Djibouti’s Ministry of National Education and Higher Education, under the heading “Basic rules of IHL” and in a section on “Treatment”, stated: “Wounded, sick or shipwrecked enemy combatants shall be … cared for.”
In 2010, in the History and Geography Textbook for 8th Grade, Djibouti’s Ministry of National Education and Higher Education, under the heading “Basic rules of IHL” and in a section on “Treatment”, stated: “No preferential treatment [among wounded, sick and shipwrecked enemy combatants] shall apply, except for [distinction on] medical grounds.ˮ