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Peru
Practice Relating to Rule 13. Area Bombardment
III. Military Manuals
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states:
It is prohibited to launch an attack that treats a number of clearly separated and distinct military objectives located in a city, town, village or other area containing a similar concentration of civilians or civilian objects as a single military objective. 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 29.m.
The manual also states: “Scattered military objectives in densely populated areas must be treated as separate targets and attacked separately.” 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 29.k.(2).
The manual further states:
Any bombardment of cities, towns, villages, habitations and buildings which are not situated in the immediate vicinity of the operations of the land forces is forbidden. Should the specified objectives be so situated that they could not be bombed without an undiscriminating bombardment of the civilian population occurring as a result, the aircraft must abstain from bombing. 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 172.e.
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states: “It is prohibited to launch an attack that treats as a single military objective various clearly separated and distinct military objectives situated in a city, town, village or any other area with a similar concentration of civilians and civilian objects.” 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 30(m), p. 244.
The manual further states: “Scattered military objectives in densely populated areas must be considered as separate military objectives and attacked separately.” 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 30(k)(2), p. 243.
The manual further states:
The bombardment of towns, villages, habitations and buildings which are not in the immediate proximity of the operations of the land forces is prohibited. Should the specified objectives be so situated that they could not be bombed without an undiscriminating bombardment of the civilian population occurring as a result, the aircrafts must abstain from bombing. 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 63(e), p. 343 .
In its Glossary of Terms, the manual also states: “Indiscriminate Bombardments … [a]re indiscriminate attacks against military objectives without consideration to the proximity of civilians in the area.” 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, p. 398.