Règle correspondante
Burundi
Practice Relating to Rule 121. Location of Internment and Detention Centres
Burundi’s Regulations on International Humanitarian Law (2007) states: “The camps of prisoners of war must safeguard their hygiene and health.”
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 56.
The Regulations further states that prisoners of war “may be interned in camps designed for this purpose in premises removed from combat and not hazardous to their health”.
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 105; see also Part I bis, p. 85, and Part I, p. 15.
The Regulations also states: “It is prohibited … to expose … prisoners of war to the dangers of combat.”
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 11.
