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Sweden’s IHL Manual (1991) considers that Article 15 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I on the protection of medical personnel has the status of customary law.
Sweden, International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System, Swedish Ministry of Defence, January 1991, Section 2.2.3, p. 18.
Sweden’s Total Defence Ordinance relating to IHL (1990) provides: “Those assigned in war time to the armed forces health and medical services may only carry light personal arms.”
Sweden, Total Defence Ordinance relating toIHL, 1990, Section 10, p. 181.