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Burkina Faso
Practice Relating to Rule 111. Protection of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked against Pillage and Ill-Treatment
Section A. General
III. Military Manuals
Burkina Faso’s Disciplinary Regulations (1994) states: “It is prohibited to plunder the … wounded”. 
Burkina Faso, Règlement de Discipline Générale dans les Forces Armées, Décret No. 94-159/IPRES/DEF, Ministère de la Défense, 1994, Article 35(2).
IV. National Legislation
Under Burkina Faso’s Code of Military Justice (1994), “the despoliation of the wounded [and] sick … in a unit’s area of operations” is an offence. 
Burkina Faso, Code of Military Justice, 1994, Article 193.