Norma relacionada
Peru
Practice Relating to Rule 27. Religious Personnel
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states: “The status accorded to … religious personnel and objects means that they are not considered combatants or military objectives.”
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 100.
The manual further states:
(1) Religious personnel can be retained to tend to the spiritual needs of the prisoners of war of their own armed forces. If there is no work for them, they must be repatriated.
(2) The status of retained religious personnel is as follows:
(a) they are not prisoners of war;
(b) in practice, their freedom can be restricted in the interests of the security of the detaining power and they can be assigned to provide services in prisoner-of-war camps and labour detachments.
(3) They are entitled, as a minimum, to the protection granted to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 31.c.(1)–(3); see also § 156.d.
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states in its Glossary of Terms: “The following persons are protected by international law: … religious personnel”.
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § d , p. 411.
The manual further states: “The status accorded to … religious personnel and objects means that they are not considered combatants or military objectives.”
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 91, p. 291.
The manual also states:
(1) Religious personnel can be retained to tend to the spiritual needs of the prisoners of war of their own armed forces. If there is no work for them, they must be repatriated.
(2) The status of retained religious personnel is as follows:
…
(b) In practice, their freedom can be restricted in the interests of the security of the detaining power and they can be assigned to provide services in prisoner-of-war camps and labour detachments.
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 32(1)–(2), p. 249.
