Règle correspondante
Mexico
Practice Relating to Rule 52. Pillage
Mexico’s Army and Air Force Manual (2009) states: “The States party to the [1949] Geneva Conventions undertake to: … prohibit … pillage.”
Mexico, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para el Ejército y la Fuerza Área Mexicanos, Ministry of National Defence, June 2009, § 80(C); see also § 224(A).
The manual also states: “It is prohibited to: … pillage an enemy town or place.”
Mexico, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para el Ejército y la Fuerza Área Mexicanos, Ministry of National Defence, June 2009, § 389(E).
Mexico’s IHL Guidelines (2009) states: “War crimes include … the pillaging of public and private property”.
Mexico, Cartilla de Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Ministry of National Defence, 2009, § 5.
In a section entitled “Basic rules of conduct in armed conflict”, the Guidelines also states: “Respect the rights of the civilian population in combat zones … and protect their property. It is strictly prohibited to commit theft”.
Mexico, Cartilla de Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Ministry of National Defence, 2009, § 14(e).
Mexico’s Code of Military Justice (1933), as amended in 1996, punishes “anyone who, without being absolutely required by war operations, … plunders towns and villages”.
Mexico, Code of Military Justice, 1933, as amended in 1996, Article 209; see also Article 334.
The Code also punishes “anyone who, taking advantage of his position in the army or in the armed forces or of the fears created by war, and for the purpose of illegitimate appropriation, seizes objects belonging to the local population”, as well as anyone who “operates forced requisitions to appropriate goods for oneself, on the pretext of public interest”.
Mexico, Code of Military Justice, 1933, as amended in 1996, Articles 325 and 326.
