Practice Relating to Rule 145. Reprisals
During discussions on reprisals in Committee I of the CDDH, the representative of Venezuela stated that the French proposal on a prohibition of reprisals “was excellent”. However, he suggested that the final text “should also include a formal prohibition of counter-reprisals so as to avoid situations in which the parties to a conflict become involved in a vicious circle and also because counter-reprisals were a negation of the law”.