Benin’s Military Manual (1995) states: “All necessary measures must be taken to verify that the target to be destroyed is a military objective.”
Benin,Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule III, p. 11; see also Fascicule II, p. 6.