Argentina
Practice Relating to Rule 37. Open Towns and Non-Defended Localities
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides for the possibility of establishing undefended areas and refers to the conditions set out for this purpose in Article 60 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides for the possibility of establishing non-defended localities and refers to the conditions set out for this purpose in Article 59 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) states: “It is prohibited to attack or bombard undefended cities, localities, dwellings or buildings.”
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) states that it is prohibited to “attack, by whatever means, non-defended localities”.
The manual further qualifies attacks against non-defended localities as grave breaches of IHL.