Customary IHL - 50. Destruction and Seizure of Property of an Adversary

Benin

Practice Relating to Rule 50. Destruction and Seizure of Property of an Adversary

Benin’s Military Manual (1995) provides: “Destruction not motivated by military necessity is … prohibited.”

Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule III, p. 4.

The manual further emphasizes that: “The combatant must … limit destruction according to the necessities of the mission.”

Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule I, p. 17; see also Fascicule II, p. 18.

2. Practice\Destruction and Seizure of Property of an Adversary