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- 2. Practice
- By Country
- China
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
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- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
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- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
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- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China (current)
- Colombia
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- Czechoslovakia
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
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- Denmark
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- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
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- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- German Democratic Republic
- Germany
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
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- Iceland
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- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kampuchea
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- Kenya
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- Kyrgyzstan
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- Latvia
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- Lesotho
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- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
- Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Rule 108
- Rule 1
- Rule 2
- Rule 4
- Rule 6
- Rule 7
- Rule 11
- Rule 15
- Rule 20
- Rule 22
- Rule 25
- Rule 27
- Rule 28
- Rule 30
- Rule 31
- Rule 32
- Rule 33
- Rule 37
- Rule 38
- Rule 40
- Rule 42
- Rule 44
- Rule 46
- Rule 50
- Rule 51
- Rule 52
- Rule 53
- Rule 55
- Rule 58
- Rule 59
- Rule 62
- Rule 64
- Rule 66
- Rule 67
- Rule 70
- Rule 71
- Rule 72
- Rule 73
- Rule 74
- Rule 76
- Rule 80
- Rule 81
- Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
- Rule 82
- Rule 83
- Rule 85
- Rule 86
- Rule 87
- Rule 88
- Rule 89
- Rule 90
- Rule 91
- Rule 93
- Rule 94
- Rule 95
- Rule 96
- Rule 99
- Rule 100
- Rule 101
- Rule 103
- Rule 104
- Rule 108 (current)
- Rule 109
- Rule 110
- Rule 120
- Rule 123
- Rule 128
- Rule 129
- Rule 134
- Rule 135
- Rule 136
- Rule 137
- Rule 139
- Rule 142
- Rule 143
- Rule 144
- Rule 145
- Rule 146
- Rule 149
- Rule 150
- Rule 151
- Rule 156
- Rule 158
- Rule 159
- Rule 161
Related Rule
China
Practice Relating to Rule 108. Mercenaries
China considers that mercenaries should not benefit from the treatment reserved for POWs and that they may also be liable to punishment, depending upon the seriousness of the crimes committed.
China, Address on the Convention on Suppressing the Activities of Mercenaries, Selected Documents of the Chinese Delegation to the United Nations, World Knowledge Press, Beijing, 1980, p. 173.
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