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.”
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’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’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’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.”