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Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
Practice Relating to Rule 110. Treatment and Care of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked
Section A. Medical care
VI. Other National Practice
In 1991, in a document entitled “Examples of violations of the rules of international law committed by the so-called armed forces of Slovenia”, the Ministry of Defence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia included the following example:
It was quite normal to prevent assistance to be provided to the wounded YPA [Yugoslav People’s Army] soldiers … Civilian hospitals and clinics have refused to provide medical assistance to the wounded and sick soldiers and their dependants. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Ministry of Defence, Examples of violations of the rules of international law committed by the so-called armed forces of Slovenia, 10 July 1991, § 3(i)–(ii); see also Secretariat of the Federal Executive Council, Press Release, Statement by Lieutenant-General Marko Negovanovic, Belgrade, 2 July 1991.