Practice Relating to Rule 146. Reprisals against Protected Persons
Switzerland’s Basic Military Manual (1987), referring,
inter alia, to Article 46 of the 1949 Geneva Convention I, states: “By virtue of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, [reprisals] are prohibited with regard to … medical personnel”.
Switzerland’s ABC of International Humanitarian Law (2009) states: “International humanitarian law does not include any general prohibition of reprisals. There are however numerous provisions that prohibit specific types of reprisal, in particular reprisals against
Protected persons”.