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The ICRC's Interpretive Guidance provides a fuller discussion of when a person can be regarded as directly participating in hostilities: Melzer (n 57) 4164. 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 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. Moreover, there are few reported instances of surrender occurring during actual hostilities that have raised difficulties under international humanitarian law, meaning that by and large states have not been formally required to determine the content and scope of the rule of surrender. ) and, on the other hand, civilians.Footnote ICTY, Prosecutor v Gali, Judgment, IT-98-29-T, Trial Chamber, 5 December 2003, [48]. See, eg, Doswald-Beck (n 70), Lubell (n 80), Sassli and Olson (n 71), Murray and others (n 86) para 511. 5 [A] soldier who fights to the very last possible moment assumes certain risks. In those instances where civilians do directly participate in hostilities they emerge as a threat to the opposing force and thus the notion of military necessity justifies their direct targeting.Footnote 111 Article 4 defines who is a 'prisoner of war' and identifies the persons entitled to the protection of the Third Convention. 2009) 22Google Scholar. Captured Russian Troops Call Home While Filmed by Ukrainian Officials, Raising Geneva Convention Questions In this frame from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on. 1981) 50910Google Scholar. Marsh, Jeremy and Glebe, Scott L, Time for the United States to Directly Participate (2011) 1 Such persons are known as parlementaires. impose an obligation upon state parties to refrain from making the object of attack a person who has expressed an intention to surrender. 81 133 56 More generally, the Court considers that the protection offered by human rights conventions does not cease in case of armed conflict: Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion [2004] ICJ Rep 136, [106]. 126 65 hasContentIssue false, The Legal Development of the Rule of Surrender. This rather simplifies the picture because there is evidence that the Romans formulated rudimentary laws of war, such as the prohibition against the use of concealed, barbed and poisoned weapons and the prohibition against attacking religious figures.Footnote False Surrender | SS | Smogon Strategy Pokedex . They shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. Such conduct is known as perfidy. 123 Edited by: . Additional Protocol I (n 6) art 57(1). American Journal of International Law 213, 217CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Professor Sir Adam Roberts, quoted in Leigh (n 123). 53 International Review of the Red Cross 881, 889CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Put differently, there is a pressing military need to target them directly. 2006)Google Scholar. 40 This is the requirement of Additional Protocol I (n 6) art 57(2)(a)(i), which explains that those who plan or decide upon an attack shall do everything feasible to verify that the objectives to be attacked are neither civilians nor civilian objects and not subject to special protections but are military objectives within the meaning of paragraph 2 of Article 52 and that it is not prohibited by the provisions of this Protocol to attack them. Both Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva ConventionsFootnote 125 Sassli, Marco and Olson, Laura M, The Relationship between International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Where It Matters: Admissible Killing and Internment of Fighters in Non-International Armed Conflicts (2008) 90 Retreat is not the same as surrender. 56 Rule 47 reads:Footnote During the period of direct participation civilians are able to surrender and, as with combatants, in order to do so they must perform a positive act which clearly indicates that they no longer intend to directly participate in hostilities. and that [t]he hoisting of a white flag has no other legal meaning in the law of war.Footnote [T]here is little evidence that the archaic and classical Greeks enacted internationally recognised laws governing the practice of warfare: As civilians do not directly participate in hostilities they do not pose a threat to the military security of the opposing party. The law of war obligates a party to a conflict to accept the surrender of enemy personnel: ibid. 85 In sum, persons who demonstrate an intent to surrender create a rebuttable presumption that they are hors de combat and no longer a threat to the enemy. This article explores the circumstances in which the act of surrender is effective under international humanitarian law and examines, in particular, how surrender can be achieved in practical terms during land warfare in the context of international and non-international armed conflict. General de Brigada Pablo Duarte, Secretara de Estado de las Fuerzas Armadas (1980) 67. Christian knights were therefore relieved of any obligation to accept offers of surrender by non-Christian combatants.Footnote it is difficult to draw firm conclusions. 1 69 Surrender involves an offer by the surrendering party (a unit or an individual solider) and an ability to accept on the part of his opponent: US Department of Defense (n 77) 641. The status and function of the white flag is clearly an area that requires urgent clarification by states and the international community as a whole, and this article has sought to catalyse this process and contribute to it.Footnote Eventually, its normative influence impacted upon the regulation of armed conflict and sought to have a humanising effect on it, encouraging the adoption of rules that better protected the human dignity of those embroiled in armed conflict.Footnote 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. The moral argument for this is that as long as the soldier is participating in the military effort, he knowingly risks his life. This led Barry to not believe the Auxiliaries when, later in the battle, they attempted to surrender: all 18 were shot and left for dead. As Polybius put it, [t]he result was that the Romans enter into possession of everything and those who surrender remain in possession of absolutely nothing.Footnote Copyright Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2018. (c) anyone who clearly expresses an intention to surrender; provided he or she abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape. 21 An unlawful combatant, illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a person who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war and therefore is claimed not to be protected by the Geneva Conventions. Fighters are assumed to be continually participating directly in hostilities (even during lulls in participation) and the demands of military necessity justify their direct targeting. In light of the fog of war that inevitably (and often densely) hangs over armed conflict, it may be the case that an enemy expresses an intention to surrender but the circumstances existing at the time prevent the opposing force from discerning that offer of surrender. 110. 50. Very few international treaties have gained this level of support. Hostname: page-component-546b4f848f-fhndm 20 False surrender is a war crime because it ends up with more people dead from a war because a winning army is just gonna execute the losing one without accepting surrender. In the Armed Activities case the ICJ held that both branches of international law, namely international human rights law and international humanitarian law, would have to be taken into consideration: Case concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo v Uganda), Judgment [2005] ICJ Rep 168, [216]. They were killed by enemy fire in a disputed incident. 34 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 During the American Civil War the US government charged the renowned American-German jurist Francis Lieber to draft a document which contained the basic principles and accepted rules of war on land to regulate the conduct of the Union's military forces during its armed conflict with the Confederate army. It is prohibited to make use of the flags or military emblems, insignia or uniforms of adverse Parties while engaging in attacks or to shield, favour, protect or impede military operations. } In ancient Greece Greek religious beliefs did not give rise to ethical or humanitarian limitations on the conduct of warfare.Footnote 1998)Google Scholar. If international human rights law were to govern the manner in which a party to an armed conflict targets its enemy this would have a profound impact upon whether and to what extent force can be used permissibly. The picture is more complex in relation to the white flag. 55 Also in recent events we haven't been fighting an organized enemy so they . 54 and non-internationalFootnote Given the centrality of the rule of surrender to realising the humanitarian objectives of international humanitarian law, it is paramount that those involved in armed conflict are aware of what conduct constitutes an act of surrender under international humanitarian law and thus when its attendant legal obligation to cease fire is triggered. Gleb Garanich/Reuters. 35 The wording of this provision is repeated verbatim in Article 8(2)(b)(vi) of the ICC Statute,Footnote For instance, in practice, the white flag has come to indicate surrender if displayed by individual soldiers or a small party in the course of an action.Footnote 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. International Review of the Red Cross 599, 606CrossRefGoogle Scholar. progression include the Hague Convention of 1907 and the better-known Geneva Conventions of 1949. Many bands took no prisoners, not even children or young women. This attack never misses. 75 It is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. Military manuals which, as I have already explained, represent important sources of state practice that can be used to interpret treaty rules and obligations under customary international humanitarian law generally fail to address how surrender can be achieved in practical terms during land warfare. It may be reasonable, for example, for the commander to utilise readily available equipment (such as night vision goggles or high performance binoculars) to check whether the enemy has expressed an intention to surrender before they are engaged, provided, of course, that the time spent preparing the equipment or using it does not compromise military objectives. On May 21, 1881, Clara founded the American Red Cross, and by 1882, the U.S. ratified the Geneva Conventions laws that, to this day, protect the war-wounded and civilians in conflict zones. US Department of Defense (n 77) 644. 2014) 187, 188Google Scholar. Other states similarly reject the contention that the white flag indicates an intention to surrender. It is therefore concerning that a number of military manuals erroneously identify the white flag as a sign of surrender under international humanitarian law. This article is concerned with exploring the legal status and content of the rule of surrender and this section traces the emergence of this rule within conventional and customary international humanitarian law during international and non-international armed conflict, as well as identifying its theoretical basis. See, eg, Human Rights Committee, Suarez de Guerrero (n 82). 67 As the quotations from the above military manuals reveal, the white flag does occupy an important role in international humanitarian law. [3] See generally The test of what is an arbitrary deprivation of life, however, then falls to be determined by the applicable lex specialis, namely, the law applicable in armed conflict which is designed to regulate the conduct of hostilities. 21 February 2018. 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. 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. The leaflet also claimed that, "An actual white flag should be regarded with the utmost suspicion as a Turkish soldier is unlikely to possess anything of that colour," suggesting that a white flag would be used in an act of perfidy. See also Hague Regulations IV (n 48) art 23(c): It is forbidden [t]o kill or wound an enemy who has surrendered at discretion. 35 87 Leiden Journal of International Law 315, 343CrossRefGoogle Scholar. [7] Over time, generally accepted laws and customs of war have been developed for such a situation, most of which are laid out in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the Geneva Conventions. With regard to non-international armed conflict, Article 4 of Additional Protocol II delineates a number of fundamental guarantees and specifically states: All persons who do not take a direct part or who have ceased to take part in hostilities, whether or not their liberty has been restricted, are entitled to respect for their person, honor and convictions and religious practices. explains that it is prohibited [t]o kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion. The principle of military necessity therefore failed to provide an effective mechanism to quell the savagery and brutality associated with previous armed conflicts. 12 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. 2016) 4951 Paul Cartledge, Surrender in Ancient Greece in Afflerbach and Strachan (n 2) 15, 21. IX, 1949: Trial of Otto Skorzeny and others, "International Law on Use of Enemy Uniforms As a Stratagem and the Acquittal in the Skorzeny Case", UK's Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 which bans perfidy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfidy&oldid=1146610770, This page was last edited on 25 March 2023, at 23:10. 11 137 Journal of National Security and Policy 379, 387Google Scholar. Green, Leslie, The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (Manchester University Press 16 It has a political dimension in the sense that an act of surrender indicates that a surrendering party has been defeated and the opposing force has been victorious. During the First Gulf War, US tanks equipped with earthmoving plough blades breached Iraqi defences and then turned and filled in trenches, entombing Iraqi soldiers who had sought to surrender. Such limited state practice, of course, creates difficulties in attempting to define the contours of a rule of treaty and customary law. 40 They must be released, it says, and repatriated without delay after the end of hostilities. 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 Geneva Conventions, a series of international treaties concluded in Geneva between 1864 and 1949 for the purpose of ameliorating the effects of war on soldiers and civilians. 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 138. 135. Polybius, The Histories, Vol VI, Book 36 (William Roger Paton tr, Loeb Classical Library 1927). The user pretends to bow its head, but then it stabs the target with its disheveled hair. 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 These three limbs will be now explored in greater detail. The law of war, as applied by the United States, gives no revolving door protection; that is, the off-and-on protection in a case where a civilian repeatedly forfeits and regains his or her protection from being made the object of attack depending on whether or not the person is taking a direct part in hostilities at that exact time: US Department of Defense, Law of War Manual (2015, updated 2016) para 5.8.4.2. 136 95 Additional Protocol I (n 6); Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (entered into force 7 December 1978) 1125 UNTS 609 (Additional Protocol II). 94 While there was a clear obligation not to make objects of attack enemy knights who had surrendered, captured knights could still be sold for ransom: John Gillingham, Surrender in Medieval Europe An Indirect Approach in Afflerbach and Strachan (n 2) 55, 68. 27 Similarly, the Dominican Republic's Military Manual accepts that once a white flag is waved this signals an intent to surrender and the opposing force must cease firing from that moment: The enemy soldier may reach a point where he would rather surrender than fight. Schmitt, Michael N, Military Necessity and Humanity in International Humanitarian Law: Preserving the Delicate Balance (2010) 50 139. Additional Protocol I (n 6) art 50(1); ICRC Study (n 6) r 6. and IV (1907)Footnote This approach is consistent with the obligation arising under the law of internationalFootnote Section 2 situates surrender within its broader historical and theoretical context in order to provide a better understanding of the development of the rule of surrender within conventional and customary international humanitarian law as well as the function of the rule of surrender during armed conflict. 134 As art 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice explains, customary international law forms on the basis of general [state] practice accepted as law: Statute of the International Court of Justice (entered into force 24 October 1945) 1 UNTS XVI, art 38(1)(b). 90, In normative terms, commentators have increasingly argued that whenever a state has enough control over a particular situation to enable it to detain individuals, then such an attempt must be made before force can be used, and non-lethal force must be favoured if possible.Footnote 19 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. Merriam-Webster defines "surrender" as "the action of yielding one's person or giving up the possession of something especially into the power of another", and traces the etymology to the Middle English surrendre, from French sur- or sus-, suz "under" + rendre "to give back";[1] this in turn is defined by the University of Michigan Middle English Dictionary as meaning "The giving up of an estate, a grant of land, or an interest in property to the person who holds the right to it", or, in law, "the relinquishing of letters patent to the king", or "the giving back or return of something". 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 This article does not consider when acts of surrender are legally effective during naval and aerial warfare, to which different rules apply.Footnote IRA leader Tom Barry claimed in his memoirs, Guerrilla Days in Ireland, that some of the Auxiliaries shouted, "We surrender, we surrender;" when IRA men stood up from their positions, they were fired upon by other Auxiliaries. 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 During the Battle for Goose Green, some Argentinean soldiers raised a white flag. The findings at Nuremberg led directly to the United Nations Genocide Convention (1948) and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), as well as the Geneva Convention on the Laws and Customs . 31 The United States, for example, claims that [w]aving a white flag technically is not a sign of surrender, but signals a desire to negotiateFootnote for this article. 130 65 62 62 24 U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, left, listens to Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktov during a tour of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on June 4. 71 Heavily influenced by the dictates of Christianity and especially the writings of the leading teachers in the Catholic Church, it was during the Medieval Ages that concerted attempts were made to construct a detailed regulatory framework to govern armed conflict and mitigate the horrors of war. 64 Marginal note: Protocols approved (2) The Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, and . However, because military necessity was defined so broadly (securing the ends of the war) it essentially became a doctrine of deference to military judgment about what is really militarily necessary.Footnote This was known as the doctrine of dedito: as soon as opposing forces fell into the hands of the Romans they no longer technically existed and their Roman captors could do with their captives as they pleased. stipulate that it is forbidden to make persons who have surrendered the object of attack. [1] [2] Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests. The US military was criticised for this conduct.Footnote 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 91 d) To declare that no quarter will be given. In practice, it [the rule of surrender] is one of the most important rules of the Protocol [Additional Protocol I (n 6 below)]: Reply . O'Connell (n 19) para 109. Nothing in this Article or in Article 37, paragraph 1(d), shall affect the existing generally recognized rules of international law applicable to espionage or to the use of flags in the conduct of armed conflict at sea. 88 The act of surrender, therefore, is a continuing obligation insofar as the persons surrendering must continually comply with the demands of their captor. The exception here is As the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) would later explain, [t]he essence of the whole corpus of international humanitarian law as well as human rights law lies in the protection of human dignity in every person The general principle of respect for human dignity is the very raison dtre of international humanitarian law and human rights law: ICTY, Prosecutor v Furundzija, Judgment, IT-95-17/I-T, Trial Chamber II, 10 December 1998, [183]. 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 Without a legal guarantee that they will not be made the object of attack once they have laid down their weapons and submitted themselves to the authority of their enemy, there would be no incentive for those persons engaged in hostilities to surrender and fights to the death would invariably ensue, thereby prolonging armed conflict and fuelling unnecessary violence and suffering. Nevertheless, available state practice, in conjunction with the wider theoretical context within which the rule of surrender operates, can be used to make general inferences and to draw tentative conclusions as to the meaning of this rule under international humanitarian law. 130 Yet, the threat they represent can be repudiated, and thus immunity from direct targeting acquired, where they perform a positive act indicating they no longer intend to participate in hostilities that is, they surrender. Its customary status during non-international armed conflict is confirmed by ICRC Study (n 6) r 15. Is it reasonable in the circumstances for the opposing force to discern the offer of surrender? According to the Israeli Military Manual, it is absolutely forbidden in the strongest terms to attack such a combatant [one who has surrendered]. Initially, the Manual explains that:Footnote 113. If they did take prisoners it was only young women or some women and children. [I]t is always permissible due to military necessity to attack the enemy's combatants. US Law of Armed Conflict Deskbook (n 60) 167. This conclusion may be different in a scenario where a commander has his or her enemy pinned down and the enemy decides to surrender but, for various reasons (such as distance between the respective parties, inimical terrain, inclement weather), the offer of surrender is not immediately apparent to the opposing commander. The general view is that international human rights law only imposes obligations upon states. 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. 89 91 The other two are whether he is "in the power of an adverse Party," or . Does the act of retreat amount to conduct that signals an intention to surrender under either treaty or customary international law? international humanitarian law] regulates the use of force against all combatants, military objectives, members of an armed group belonging to a party to the [international armed] conflict, and individuals directly participating in hostilities, irrespective of their location to any active battlefield: Cte d'Ivoire, Droit de la guerre, Manuel d'instruction, Ministre de la Dfense, Forces Armes Nationales (2007) 4647. Mattox, John Mark, Saint Augustine and the Theory of Just War (Continuum This view is also endorsed by the ICRC, which explains that [t]he law of armed conflict does not prohibit attacks on retreating enemy forces. See also Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, adopted by the 9th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August7 September 1990, UN Doc A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1 (1990), art 10 of which provides that before using force, law enforcement officials shall give a clear warning of their intent to use firearms, with sufficient time for the warning to be observed, unless to do so would unduly place the law enforcement officials at risk or would create a risk of death or serious harm to other persons. 94 Case of Abella v Argentina (Tabala) (1997) Inter-Am Ct HR, Case No 11.137, Report No 55/97, 18 November 1997. What are feasible precautions is difficult to define but Article 3(4) of the Convention on Conventional Weapons 1980Footnote Perfidy is specifically prohibited under the 1977 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, which states: 1. 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