Règle correspondante
Belgium
Practice Relating to Rule 25. Medical Personnel
Section B. Equipment of medical personnel with light individual weapons
Belgium’s Law of War Manual (1983) states: “Medical personnel may carry arms but only to defend themselves or the patients in their charge.”
Belgium, Droit Pénal et Disciplinaire Militaire et Droit de la Guerre, Deuxième Partie, Droit de la Guerre, Ecole Royale Militaire, par J. Maes, Chargé de cours, Avocat-général près la Cour Militaire, D/1983/1187/029, 1983, p. 48.
Belgium’s Teaching Manual for Soldiers provides: “The prohibition to attack hospitals remains applicable even if … its personnel carry light individual weapons for their own defence or for the defence of the wounded in their charge, the establishment or material.”
Belgium, Droit de la Guerre, Dossier d’Instruction pour Soldat, à l’attention des officiers instructeurs, JS3, Etat-Major Général, Forces Armées belges, undated, pp. 18–19.
