Règle correspondante
Mexico
Practice Relating to Rule 89. Violence to Life
Mexico’s Army and Air Force Manual (2009) states: “The States party to the [1949] Geneva Conventions undertake to: … prohibit … summary executions [and] extermination.”
Mexico, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para el Ejército y la Fuerza Área Mexicanos, Ministry of National Defence, June 2009, § 80(C); see also § 104.
In a section on the 1949 Geneva Convention I, the manual also states:
Members of the armed forces and other persons who are wounded or sick must be respected and protected in all circumstances … Any attempts upon their lives or violence to their persons are strictly prohibited; in particular, they must not be murdered.
Mexico, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para el Ejército y la Fuerza Área Mexicanos, Ministry of National Defence, June 2009, § 88; see also §§ 85(B) and 107(B).
The manual also states that Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibits “the carrying out of executions without previous judgment”.
Mexico, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para el Ejército y la Fuerza Área Mexicanos, Ministry of National Defence, June 2009, § 85(B); see also § 107(B).
Mexico’s IHL Guidelines (2009) states: “War crimes include the wilful killing of civilians … and enemy combatants who are rendered hors de combat or have surrendered … , [and] the … execution of hostages”.
Mexico, Cartilla de Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Ministry of National Defence, 2009, § 5.
Mexico’s Penal Code (1931), as amended to 2000, provides for the punishment of the killing, as a part of a genocide campaign, of a member of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
Mexico, Penal Code, 1931, as amended to 2000, Article 149 bis.
In its written statement submitted to the ICJ in the Nuclear Weapons (WHO) case in 1994, Mexico stated that both conventional and customary international law guaranteed the right to life.
Mexico, Written statement submitted to the ICJ, Nuclear Weapons (WHO) case, 9 June 1994, p. 8.
In 2009, during a debate in the UN Security Council on children and armed conflict, the permanent representative of Mexico stated: “We condemn all acts that jeopardize the integrity of children, such as … killing”.
Mexico, Statement by the permanent representative before the UN Security Council, 6114th meeting, UN Doc. S/PV.6114, 29 April 2009, p. 29.
