Benin’s Military Manual (1995) provides that all persons hors de combat and who do not take a direct part in hostilities shall be treated humanely.
Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule II, p. 4 and Fascicule III, p. 4.