Related Rule
Croatia
Practice Relating to Rule 29. Medical Transports
Section A. Respect for and protection of medical transports
Croatia’s Commanders’ Manual (1992) provides: “Medical transports may not be used to collect or transmit intelligence data.”
Croatia, Basic Rules of the Law of Armed Conflicts – Commanders’ Manual, Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Defence, 1992, § 34.
Croatia’s Criminal Code (1997), as amended to 2006, states that a war crime is committed by:
Whoever, in violation of the rules of international law, in time of war or armed conflict, orders [or commits] … an illegal and wanton, large-scale destruction or appropriation of … medical vehicles … when there is no justification by military necessity.
Croatia, Criminal Code, 1997, as amended in June 2006, Article 159.
