Related Rule
United States of America
Practice Relating to Rule 111. Protection of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked against Pillage and Ill-Treatment
Section B. Respect by civilians for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked
The US Field Manual (1956) provides: “The civilian population shall respect [the] wounded and sick, and in particular abstain from offering them violence.”
United States, Field Manual 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare, US Department of the Army, 18 July 1956, as modified by Change No. 1, 15 July 1976, § 219.
The US Health Service Manual (1991) reproduces Article 18 of the 1949 Geneva Convention I and provides: “The civilian population must respect the wounded and the sick and refrain from offering them violence.”
United States, Field Manual 8–10, Health Service Support in a Theatre of Operations, Department of the Army Headquarters, 1 March 1991, p. A-2.
