Spain
Practice Relating to Rule 117. Accounting for Missing Persons
Section D. Right of the families to know the fate of their relatives
Spain’s LOAC Manual (1996) provides: “The provisions of the law of armed conflicts concerning the dead are based on the right of the families to know the fate of their relatives.”
Spain’s LOAC Manual (2007) states: “The provisions of the law of armed conflict concerning enemy dead are based on the right of families to know what has happened to them.”