Customary IHL - 45. Causing Serious Damage to the Natural Environment

2. Practice
By Country
Togo
Rule 45

Togo

Practice Relating to Rule 45. Causing Serious Damage to the Natural Environment

Section A. Widespread, long-term and severe damage

Togo’s Military Manual (1996) states that it is prohibited “to use means and methods of warfare which are likely to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment”.

Togo, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Etat-major Général des Forces Armées Togolaises, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1996, Fascicule III, p. 12.

2. Practice\Causing Serious Damage to the Natural Environment