The
Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War, 1949
Article
3: In the case of armed conflict not of an international character
occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties,
each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum,
the following provisions:
(1) Persons
taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of
armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors
de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause,
shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse
distinction founded on race, color, religion, or faith, sex, birth,
or wealth, or any other similar criteria.
To this end,
the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time
and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned
persons:
(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all
kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture;
(b) taking of hostages;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating
and degrading treatment;
(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions
without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted
court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized
as indispensable by civilized peoples.
(2) The wounded
and sick shall be collected and cared for....
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