Règle correspondante
Senegal
Practice Relating to Rule 28. Medical Units
Senegal’s Disciplinary Regulations (1990) provides that soldiers in combat must respect and protect hospitals and places where the wounded and sick, civilian or military, are collected, as well as medical units, buildings and material.
Senegal, Règlement de Discipline dans les Forces Armées, Décret 90-1159, 12 October 1990, Article 34(1).
Senegal’s IHL Manual (1999) states: “Medical establishments (hospitals) must be protected and armed persons may not enter them. Their content and actual use may be checked through an inspection ordered by the person responsible for the maintenance of order.”
Senegal, Le DIH adapté au contexte des opérations de maintien de l’ordre, République du Sénégal, Ministère des Forces Armées, Haut Commandement de la Gendarmerie et Direction de la Justice Militaire, Cabinet, 1999, p. 17.
Senegal’s Penal Code (1965), as amended in 2007, states that the following constitute war crimes:
b) [O]ther serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
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8. launching deliberate attacks against … hospitals or places where the sick or wounded are collected, as long as these buildings are not military objectives;
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d) …
Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
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4. launching deliberate attacks against … hospitals or places where the sick or wounded are collected, provided these buildings are not military objectives.
Senegal, Penal Code, 1965, as amended in 2007, Article 431-3(b)(8) and (d)(4).
