Norma relacionada
Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 52. Pillage
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) states: “The pillage of towns and localities, even those taken by assault, is prohibited.”
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 1.013.
Pillage is also forbidden in occupied territories.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 4.012.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides that pillage is “strictly prohibited”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 4.29.
In its judgment in the Military Junta case in 1985, Argentina’s National Court of Appeals applied the 1907 Hague Regulations to acts of pillage committed in the context of internal violence. It resorted to the provisions of the Penal Code relating to theft to determine the sanction.
Argentina, National Court of Appeals, Military Junta case, Judgment, 9 December 1985.
