Norma relacionada
Burundi
Practice Relating to Rule 47. Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
Section A. General
Burundi’s Regulations on International Humanitarian Law (2007) states: “Persons hors de combat and persons who do not take a direct part in hostilities are entitled to respect for their life and physical and psychological integrity.”
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 80.
The Regulations also states: “It is prohibited to shoot at or wound a person who has surrendered or put down his or her arms, or who has no means of defence left.”
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 24; see also Part I bis, pp. 9, 24 and 26.
The Regulations also states that “an attack against a person hors de combat” constitutes a “grave breach” of IHL.
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I bis, p. 115.
