Practice Relating to Rule 117. Accounting for Missing Persons
Kenya’s LOAC Manual (1997) provides: “As soon as circumstances permit or, at least, at the end of active hostilities, each Party to the conflict must search for persons who have been reported missing by the adverse Party.”
Kenya’s LOAC Manual (1997) states: “The basi[c] principles relating to ‘missing and dead’ persons, military or civilians, are based on the right of the families to know the fate of their relatives.”