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Sweden
Practice Relating to Rule 80. Booby-Traps
Sweden’s IHL Manual (1991) states that booby-traps cannot be “used against civilian populations or individual civilians, which is in full agreement with [the 1997 Additional Protocol I] (Art. 51)”. It adds: “Should it be necessary to use booby-traps against objectives within populated areas, special restrictions on delivery exist to protect the civilian population.” It further states:
During the conflicts of recent years it has been possible to discern an increasing use of booby-traps. It has become common to use booby-traps even against persons and objects already afforded protection under earlier conventions … This has led to an increased terror effect in warfare, but with little or no military significance.
The manual refers to Articles 6 and 7 of the 1980 Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Sweden, International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System, Swedish Ministry of Defence, January 1991, Section 3.3.2, pp. 80–81.
Upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Sweden stated: “[T]he provisions of the amended Protocol which by their contents or nature may be applied also in peacetime, shall be observed at all times.”
Sweden, Declaration made upon acceptance of Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 16 July 1997.
