Côte d’Ivoire
Practice Relating to Rule 131. Treatment of Displaced Persons
Section B. Security of displaced persons
Côte d’Ivoire’s Teaching Manual (2007) provides in Book I (Basic instruction):
Lesson 1. Basic notions of IHL
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The principle of distinction specifies who and what can be attacked and who and what cannot be attacked.
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- Who and what must be protected?
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- refugees and displaced persons,
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Lesson 2. Identification
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II.2 Persons and objects under special protection
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- refugees and displaced persons.
In Book III, Volume 1 (Instruction of first-year trainee officers), the Teaching Manual provides:
IV.3.3. Total or partial evacuation of the civilian population
With respect to evacuations, additional limitations apply in occupied territory. …
The occupying power which undertakes these transfers or evacuations must ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that the protected persons are offered suitable accommodation, [and] that the evacuations are effected in appropriate conditions of … safety.