Règle correspondante
Canada
Practice Relating to Rule 116. Accounting for the Dead
Section E. Information concerning the dead
Canada’s LOAC Manual (1999) provides: “The Geneva Conventions impose certain obligations on Detaining Powers with regard to burial and reporting of dead personnel belonging to the adverse party.”
Canada, The Law of Armed Conflict at the Operational and Tactical Level, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 1999, p. 9-5, § 51.
The manual further states: “One half of a double disc, or the identity disc itself if it is a single disc, should remain on the body.”
Canada, The Law of Armed Conflict at the Operational and Tactical Level, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 1999, p. 9-6, § 57.
Canada’s Code of Conduct (2001) provides: “One half of the double identity disc, or the identity disc itself if it is a single disc, should remain with the body.”
Canada, Code of Conduct for CF Personnel, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 4 June 2001, Rule 7, § 5.
Canada’s LOAC Manual (2001) states in its chapter on the treatment of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked:
924. Search for missing and dead
1. The Geneva Conventions impose certain obligations on Detaining Powers with regard to the burial and reporting of dead personnel belonging to the adverse party. [The 1977 Additional Protocol I] also imposes obligations to search for the missing and to report upon the disposal of the remains of the dead.
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925. Care of remains
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4. One half of the double identity disc, [or] the identity disc itself if it is a single disc, should remain on the body.
Canada, The Law of Armed Conflict at the Operational and Tactical Levels, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 13 August 2001, §§ 924.1 and 925.4.
Canada’s Code of Conduct (2005) states: “One half of the double identity disc, or the identity disc itself if it is a single disc, should remain with the body.”
Canada, Code of Conduct for CF Personnel, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 2005, Rule 7, § 5.
