If the rationale underlying the rule of surrender is that there is no military necessity to attack persons who have expressed the intention to no longer directly participate in hostilities, then it follows that it is only those persons who directly participate in hostilities who possess the legal capacity to surrender under international humanitarian law. Virginia Journal of International Law Online 1, 20Google Scholar. The UN is investigating to see which account holds true. ICRC, The Law of Armed Conflict: The Conduct of Operations: Part A, June 2002, 19, https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/law3_final.pdf. Tieya, Wang and Min, Wei, International Law (Falu Chubanshe It is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. [citation needed] Flags and ensigns are hauled down or furled, and ships' colors are struck. 91 } 83 The US Law of War Manual explains that [a]ll hostile acts or resistance, or manifestations of hostile intent, including efforts to escape or to destroy items, documents, or equipment to prevent their capture by the enemy, vitiate an otherwise legally effective surrender: US Law of War Manual (n 68) para 5.9.3.2. 68 Given that the relevant treaties are silent as to the conduct that constitutes an act of surrender, state practice becomes an important indicator of the ways in which ambiguous or unclear treaty provisions must be interpreted.Footnote Statute of the International Court of Justice (n 41) art 38(1)(b). 71 Published online by Cambridge University Press: Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. 76 116 No destroying inhabited planets. St Augustine's notion of just war implied that resort to war was subject to limitations and that the decision to declare war required justification.Footnote Any males of fighting age or the elderly that fell into band warriors power were simply killed. Article 41(2) of Additional Protocol I and Rule 47 of the ICRC Study stipulate that a person who surrenders but subsequently engages in a hostile act or attempt[s] to escape is no longer regarded as hors de combat and again becomes liable to direct targeting.Footnote (2) Is it reasonable in the circumstances prevailing at the time for the opposing force to discern the offer of surrender? 36 General de Brigada Pablo Duarte, Secretara de Estado de las Fuerzas Armadas (1980) 67. 38 For example, Article 41(2) of Additional Protocol I expressly imposes an obligation to accept offers of surrender but merely states that a person is hors de combat where he or she expresses an intention to surrender. It also grantsthe right to proper medical treatment and care. ICTY, Prosecutor v Gali, Judgment, IT-98-29-T, Trial Chamber, 5 December 2003, [48]. The development of the Geneva Conventions was closely associated with the Red Cross, whose founder, Henri Dunant, initiated international negotiations . International Review of the Red Cross 3CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Scheffer, "Towards a Modern Doctrine," p. 289; United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), Article I. Julie Mertus goes further: "If the target state is party to any of the relevant human rights conventions, or if the human right can be said to be customary international law applicable to . Have persons who are surrendering unconditionally submitted to the authority of their captor? Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions covered, for the first time, situations of non-international armed conflicts. Francis Lieber, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, General Order No 100, 24 April 1863 (Lieber Code), art 14. 106 The 1st Marine Division and its 4,000 attached U.S. Army forces and British Royal Marines, in the famous 1950 march out of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, fighting outnumbered by a 4:1 margin, turned its retreat into a battle in which it defeated the 20th and 26th Chinese Armies trying to annihilate it. 134 The Oxford Manual of 1880, a non-binding document produced by the Institute of International Law, explained that it was prohibited to injure or kill an enemy who has surrendered at discretion or is disabled, and to declare in advance that quarter will not be given, even by those who do not ask it for themselves.Footnote Where a valid offer of surrender is communicated to an opponent, there is a legal obligation upon the opponent to accept that offer and to refrain from making surrendered persons the object of attack. Depending upon the circumstances, in the majority of instances it is likely that in order for force to be deemed necessary, the state must first utilise all reasonable measures at its disposal to communicate to the enemy an offer of surrender and, subsequently, to ascertain whether that offer has been accepted or rejected.Footnote Section 3 explores state practice with a view to identifying when an offer of surrender is effective under international humanitarian law, and proposes a three-stage test that can be used to determine whether an enemy has extended a valid offer of surrender. 2009) 8687 1 Lubell (n 80) 750. The code of honour forbade warriors to surrender; they had to win or die, with no mercy.Footnote As Sassli and Olson explain, case law in this area is clearly contradictoryFootnote 8 128. 2 The picture is more complex in relation to the white flag. 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The ICRC Study is not a source of international law but instead intends to capture and delineate customary rules of international humanitarian law applicable to international and non-international armed conflict: ibid xxiv. Its full respect is required. It recognizes that the application of these rules does not affect the legal status of the parties to the conflict. 3, After uncovering the theoretical basis for the rule of surrender and after identifying relevant state practice in the context of this rule, the objective of this article is to fill this gap in scholarship by clarifying the type of conduct that constitutes an act of surrender under international humanitarian law. An interesting incident came to light in October 2010 as a result of classified US military logs being published by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.Footnote While other international humanitarian law treaties impose an obligation upon opposing forces to accept valid offers of surrender, they do not provide any guidance as to the type of conduct (verbal or otherwise) that signifies an intention to surrender. See generally Most of us can still recall that false dawn, that phase of hope. 115, One final question remains. Under the first and second Geneva Conventions of 1949, the belligerents must protect the sick, wounded and shipwrecked as well as medical personnel, ambulances and hospitals. Indeed, there is support for this approach in a number of military manuals. [3], Alternatively, in a surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender), the victor makes no promises of treatment, and unilaterally defines the treatment of the vanquished party. For the lex specialis principle to apply it is not enough that the same subject matter is dealt with by two provisions; there must be some actual inconsistency between them, or else a discernible intention that one provision is to exclude the other: International Law Association, Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with Commentaries (2001) Yearbook of the International Law Commission, Vol II, Pt Two, 140. Article 42 of Additional Protocol I provides that in an international armed conflict no person parachuting from an aircraft in distress shall be made the object of attack during his descent and, upon reaching enemy territory, he or she must be given a reasonable opportunity to surrender before being made the object of attack, unless it is apparent that he is engaging in a hostile act. 27 A number of academics also hold this view: eg, Sandesh Sivakumaran, The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press 2012) 413 (an intention to surrender is indicated in the form of waving a white flag or discarding weapons and placing hands on heads). [12], The Program for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, "IHL PRIMER SERIES | Issue #1" Accessed at, alleged false surrender of British troops at Kilmichael, "Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. provides: c) To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion. Law and History Review 469, 47677CrossRefGoogle Scholar. [11] False surrenders are usually used to draw the enemy out of cover to attack them off guard, but they may be used in larger operations such as during a siege. Like Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)? 117. It ensureshumane treatment without discriminationfounded on race, color, sex, religion or faith, birth or wealth, etc. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (2nd part) ADOPTED 12 August 1949 BY the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949 Share View ratification status by country Table of Contents Part I For the purpose of targeting, and in order to maintain the principle of distinction during non-international armed conflict, the law of such conflict distinguishes between, on the one hand, armed forces and armed groups (who are often referred to collectively as fightersFootnote The other two are whether he is "in the power of an adverse Party," or . No Nuclear Weapons . Or life-sustaining stars . Initially, the Manual explains that:Footnote In other instances, however, international tribunals and human rights bodies have deviated from Nuclear Weapons and applied human rights law standards in determining the legality of the use of force by states.Footnote 33 As Pictet explains, [i]n the earliest human societies, what we call the law of the jungle generally prevailed; the triumph of the strongest or most treacherous was followed by monstrous massacres and unspeakable atrocities. Lubell, Noam, Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict (2005) 87 International humanitarian law nevertheless requires the commander to take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure that the targets remain permissible objects of attack before launching an offensive. The Geneva Conventions providefor universal jurisdiction, as opposed to a more traditional (and limited) territorial jurisdictionthat was designed torespect thesovereignty of States over their citizens. For a more detailed discussion of decisions of UN human rights bodies that have applied international human rights law in determining the legality of the use of force by states during non-international armed conflicts see Sassli and Olson (n 71) 61112. 108 Seven new ratifications since 2000 have brought the total number of States Party to 194, making the Geneva Conventions universally applicable. The exception here is Holger Afflerbach and Hew Strachan, A True Chameleon? Put differently, there is a pressing military need to target them directly. Common Article 3 (n 50); Additional Protocol II (n 49) art 1. For a discussion of the legal framework relating to parlementaires see I doubt after the fall of humanity with dark forces living on the moon and superpowered zombies defending earth we still hold the Geneva convention as anything more than a . 17. Certain states maintain the view that where civilians repeatedly participate directly in hostilities to the extent that their future participation is likely and predictable, they remain a threat to the military security of the opposing party and can be directly targeted even notwithstanding lulls in participation.Footnote 75 The code of chivalry did not govern the relations between knights and common warriors; knights, therefore, were not subject to any legal obligation to accept offers of surrender from regular combatants during times of hostilities: the desperate situation of the common warriors must be stressed because it warns us against overstating the so-called rules of war, which had begun to develop a certain code of human behaviour among noble warriors since the Middle Ages.Footnote In land warfare a soldier who wishes to indicate that he is no longer capable of engaging in combat, or that he intends to cease combat, lays down his arms and raises his hands. Perhaps the thorniest issue is what positive act (or acts) are recognised by international humanitarian law as expressing an intention to surrender. Citing the numerous manuals that impose an obligation upon armed forces to accept valid offers of surrender, Rule 47 of the customary international humanitarian law study by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) explains that the rule of surrender is a principle of customary international law applicable during international and non-international armed conflict. British officer shocked by treatment of prisoners as 'oriental cattle' Owen Bowcott @ owenbowcott Thu 2 Jan 2003 20.58 EST US troops guarding communist captives in the Korean War violated the. 19 The rule is based on common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds" against persons placed hors de combat. 64 81 677 @RealColfair Replying to @SamRamani2 72 Common Article 3 functions like a mini-Convention within the larger GenevaConvention itself, and establishes fundamental rules from which no derogation is permitted, containing the essential rules of the Geneva Convention in a condensed format, and making them applicable to non-international conflicts. R.11/45, 31 March 1982, UN Doc Supp No 40 (A37/40), para 13.2. For the purpose of clarity, it must be stressed that the legal obligation imposed by the rule of surrender is that opposing forces cannot directly target surrendered persons. During the Battle for Goose Green, some Argentinean soldiers raised a white flag. Conventions Approved. 64 Thus, by about 1900, most publicists recognised a customary rule which made it unlawful to refuse quarter or to wound or kill those who unconditionally offered to surrender.Footnote The question then becomes what degree of control over the situation is needed in order to invoke the application of international human rights law. Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (entered into force 3 September 2002) 2187 UNTS 90 (ICC Statute), art 8(2)(b)(vi). This chimes with the ICRC commentary to Rule 47 which, after citing many military manuals, explains that [i]n land warfare, a clear intention to surrender is generally shown by laying down one's weapons and raising one's hands or by displaying a white flag.Footnote 132 34 43 that they no longer intend to directly participate in hostilities and therefore no longer represent a threat to the military security of the opposing party. It does not necessarily indicate as it is often believed an intention to surrender.Footnote See, eg, ECtHR, McCann v United Kingdom, App no 18984/91, Judgment, 5 September 1995, paras 200205. Definition. Once Islam is defined as inherently violent and . The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat (French, literally "outside the fight"), or incapable of fighting. The Laws of War on Land, 9 September 1880 (the Oxford Manual), art 9(b). In practice, it [the rule of surrender] is one of the most important rules of the Protocol [Additional Protocol I (n 6 below)]: This article does not consider when acts of surrender are legally effective during naval and aerial warfare, to which different rules apply.Footnote 2. As Oeter explains, the obligation to accept valid offers of surrender constitutes in essence a logical expression of the principle that the legal use of military violence is strictly limited to what is required by military necessity; clearly there is no necessity to kill persons hors de combat: Stefan Oeter, Methods and Means of Combat in Fleck (n 19) 115, 18687. 61 59, Combatants who wish to surrender must act purposively in order to repudiate the assumption that they represent a threat to military security. The Schedules. Before we examine what type of conduct constitutes a positive act indicating an intention to no longer directly participate in hostilities, it is first necessary to identify those persons whom international humanitarian law regards as directly participating in hostilities during armed conflict, because it is within this context that the rule of surrender operates. The notion of fighters also includes those members of an organised armed group that is party to a non-international armed conflict and who possess a continuous combat function.Footnote regardless of how hopelessly outgunned and vanquished they may be.Footnote 113 Accordingly, I propose a three-stage test for determining when an act of surrender is legally effective under international humanitarian law: 1. 46 47 23 Resolving the question of the type of conduct that expresses an intention to surrender would therefore produce the collateral benefit of also clarifying the rule relating to perfidy. No Colony Drops. 118 Moving forward, the next question that needs to be addressed is the nature of the positive act that persons must exhibit in order to reveal an intention that they no longer intend to directly participate in hostilities. Schmitt, Michael N and Widmar, Eric W, On Target: Precision and Balance in the Contemporary Law of Targeting (2014) 7 principle and became a license for mischief.Footnote In its legal dimension, where a valid offer of surrender is communicated to and received by an opposing force, it is legally obligated to accept that offer and refrain from making surrendered persons the object of attack.Footnote which indicates in an absolutely clear mannerFootnote The logs revealed that during the Second Gulf War a US Apache helicopter engaged a truck containing two Iraqi insurgents. As a result, state practice makes it clear that the simple fact that troops are retreating does not demonstrate an intent to surrender.Footnote and that [t]he hoisting of a white flag has no other legal meaning in the law of war.Footnote Thus, the test imposed by international humanitarian law is whether a reasonable combatant operating in those circumstances would have been expected to discern the offer of surrender. Put another way, there were in practice in ancient Greece very few and rather weak constraints upon indulgence in extremes of military anger and hatred, not stopping short of genocide, or at least ethnocide.Footnote That Convention reassembled at Jefferson City, on the 22d of July, and declared the government of which Jackson was the head, to be illegal. 99. The principle of military necessity therefore failed to provide an effective mechanism to quell the savagery and brutality associated with previous armed conflicts. Robertson (n 3) 547. Marginal note: Conventions approved 2 (1) The Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims, signed at Geneva on August 12, 1949 and set out in Schedules I to IV, are approved.. There is one instance where a party to an armed conflict is legally required to offer opposing forces the opportunity to surrender before direct targeting can commence. Case of Abella v Argentina (Tabala) (1997) Inter-Am Ct HR, Case No 11.137, Report No 55/97, 18 November 1997. Yet, the circumstances in which international human rights law is operative during international and non-international armed conflict is far from clear and this is particularly so in relation to the law of targeting.Footnote The rule of surrender does not require the opposing force to detain surrendered persons as prisoners of war (although they can if they wish). It contains no obligation "either explicit or implicit" for refugees to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach . Conduct amounting to direct participation in hostilities includes acts of war which by their nature or purpose are likely to cause actual harm to the personnel or materiel of the enemy armed forces.Footnote Three conventions followed: in 1906, 1929 and 1949. [3] Normally, a surrender will involve the handing over of weapons; the commanding officer of a surrendering force symbolically offers his sword to the victorious commander. 32 In turn, this will allow for the conditions that trigger the obligation to accept offers of surrender under international humanitarian law to be more easily discerned and better understood. 125 See generally Specifically, it required POWs to give only their names, ranks,and serial numbers to their captors. For the purpose of this Statute, 'war crimes' means: Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under . Additional Protocol I Article 10 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides: 1. 111 The original Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864 to establish the red cross emblem signifying neutral status and protection of medical services and volunteers. The offer to surrender must be clear and unconditional: US Law of War Manual (n 68) para 5.9.3.2. In lay terms many are likely to regard the waving of the white flag as a widely recognised method of indicating a desire to surrender. 66 During times of international armed conflict state practice is fairly uniformFootnote Although this literature routinely identifies the rule of surrender as being part and parcel of modern international humanitarian law and indeed emphasises the importance of this rule within this legal framework, existing literature fails to drill down into this rule and reveal the conditions precedent for an act of surrender to be legally effective.Footnote 87 60 From a survey of military manuals I have revealed that the laying down of weapons and the raising of hands is a widely accepted method of indicating such an intention under both conventional and customary international humanitarian law. 65 See generally Individual combatants can indicate a surrender by discarding weapons and raising their hands empty and open above their heads; a surrendering tank commander should point the tank's turret away from opposing combatants. See, eg, Doswald-Beck (n 70), Lubell (n 80), Sassli and Olson (n 71), Murray and others (n 86) para 511. Retreating forces remain dangerous as the enemy force may recover to counterattack, consolidate a new defensive position, or assist the war effort in other ways.Footnote The US military was criticised for this conduct.Footnote 54 Division 270Slavery, sexual servitude and deceptive recruiting 262. Draper, Gerald, The Interaction of Christianity and Chivalry in the Historical Development of the Law of War (1965) 5 The Court rejected this argument andheld that consent exised since September 11, 2001, through an Authorization for Use of Military Forces (AUMF), a Congressional resolution which empowered the President to use all necessary and appropriate forces against any nations, organizations, or personsthat he determinedto have planned, authorized,committed, or aided in the September 11, 2001attacks. And serial numbers to their captors Conflict: the Conduct of Operations Part. 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