Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 116. Accounting for the Dead
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides that the dead shall be identified prior to their disposal.
In its judgment in the
Military Juntas case in 1985, Argentina’s Court of Appeal referred to the rule that prior to burial or cremation, the dead should be examined, if possible by a doctor.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides:
When circumstances so permit and at latest at the end of the hostilities [the obituary] services shall communicate to each other, through the Information Office … the lists indicating the location and designation of the graves.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides that graves shall be “marked so that they can always be found”.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides: “An official Graves Registration Service must be established from the commencement of hostilities in order to allow possible exhumations, to ensure the identity of the bodies.”
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides: “One half of a double identity disc or the whole disc if it is a single disc, shall remain on the body.”
The manual also states:
When circumstances so permit and at latest at the end of the hostilities, [the obituary] services shall communicate to each other, through the Information Office … the lists indicating … the details relative to the dead.