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Practice Relating to Rule 1. The Principle of Distinction between Civilians and Combatants
Section B. Attacks against combatants
III. Military Manuals
Burundi’s Regulations on International Humanitarian Law (2007) states: “Only combatants … may be attacked.” 
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 34; see also Part I bis, pp. 9, 25, 63 and 82.