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Benin
Practice Relating to Rule 27. Religious Personnel
III. Military Manuals
Benin’s Military Manual (1995) lists military and civilian religious personnel as specially protected persons. 
Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule I, p. 13.
The manual states: “Specially protected persons may not take a direct part in hostilities and must not be attacked. They shall be allowed to carry out their tasks as long as the tactical situation permits.” 
Benin, Le Droit de la Guerre, III fascicules, Forces Armées du Bénin, Ministère de la Défense nationale, 1995, Fascicule III, p. 5; see also Fascicule II, p. 8.