Practice Relating to Rule 106. Conditions for Prisoner-of-War Status
In 2010, in the History and Geography Textbook for 8th Grade, Djibouti’s Ministry of National Education and Higher Education, under the heading “Basic rules of IHL” and in a section on “Weapons and tactics”, stated: “It is prohibited for a combatant to pretend he/she is a civilian.ˮ
In an exercise asking students to identify IHL violations, the ministry provided the following example: “[A soldier states:] ‘Quite often, soldiers exchange their uniforms for civilian clothes. How can we then know who is really a civilian?’”