Mali’s Army Regulations (1979) provides that, under the laws and customs of war, it is prohibited “to use any means [of warfare] that causes unnecessary suffering and damage”. 

Under Mali’s Penal Code (2001), “employing weapons, projectiles, materials and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering … provided that such means are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition” is a war crime in international armed conflicts.