Benin’s Military Manual (1995) prohibits pillage, “even if the town or location concerned is taken by assault”.
Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule III, p. 12; see also Fascicule II, p. 19 and Fascicule III, p. 4.