Règle correspondante
Sierra Leone
Practice Relating to Rule 47. Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Sierra Leone’s Geneva Conventions Act (2012) states:
2. Grave breaches of the [1949 Geneva] Conventions and the [1977] First [Additional] Protocol.
(1) A person of whatever nationality commits an offence if that person, whether within or outside Sierra Leone[,] commits, aids, abets or procures any other person to commit a grave breach specified in –
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(e) … paragraph … 3 … of Article 85 of the First Protocol [on, inter alia, the grave breach of making a person the object of attack in the knowledge that he is hors de combat].
Sierra Leone, Geneva Conventions Act, 2012, Section 2(1)(e).
Sierra Leone’s Instructor Manual (2007) states:
Don’t fight enemies who are sick, wounded or who surrender. Such persons are no longer in a position to fight. They are to be made Prisoners of War and not to be punished, but only prevented from continuing to fight (disarmament) and their suffering minimized (medical care if needed). They should therefore be protected and you have a duty to collect and care for them, whether they are friend or foe.
Sierra Leone, The Law of Armed Conflict. Instructor Manual for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), Armed Forces Education Centre, September 2007, p. 34; see also p. 10.
Sierra Leone’s Instructor Manual (2007) states:
In any combat operation, when enemy combatants are first captured they straightaway become POWs [prisoners of war]. The first action to be taken therefore is to:
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f. Evacuate them as soon as the tactical situation permits. If you have to abandon them, you can tie them only if left where they can be found; or release them and give them food and water.
Sierra Leone, The Law of Armed Conflict. Instructor Manual for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), Armed Forces Education Centre, September 2007, p. 42.
[emphasis in original]