Peru
Practice Relating to Rule 46. Orders or Threats That No Quarter Will Be Given
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states: “It is prohibited to order that there shall be no survivors, threaten an adversary therewith or conduct hostilities on this basis.”
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states: “It is prohibited to order that there shall be no survivors, threaten an adversary therewith or conduct hostilities on this basis.”
Peru’s Code of Military and Police Justice (2006) states:
A member of the military or police shall be imprisoned for a period of no less than eight and no more than 15 years if he or she in the context of an international or non-international armed conflict:
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6. As a superior orders or threatens to order that no quarter will be given.
Peru’s Military and Police Criminal Code (2010), in a chapter entitled “Crimes involving the use of prohibited methods in the conduct of hostilities”, states:
A member of the military or the police shall be punished with deprivation of liberty of not less than six years and not more than twenty-five years if, in a state of emergency and when the Armed Forces assume control of the internal order, he or she:
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6. As a superior orders or threatens to order that no quarter shall be given.