The leaders of the surrendering group negotiate privileges or compensation for the time, expense and loss of life saved by the victor through the stopping of resistance. 138 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 9 within the international society and coupled with opinio juris (the belief that the practice is required by international law), such customary practices give rise to international legal obligations.Footnote 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 Any males of fighting age or the elderly that fell into band warriors power were simply killed. 2012) 75Google Scholar. Such defensive-Introduction 5 ness can turn a potentially friendly or neutral tradition into the enemy it was assumed to be in the first place. The Russian Defence Ministry claims that at least 10 restrained Russian POWs were killed in a war crime Ukraine claims that Russia staged the capture of POWs and these supposed POWs opened fire on Ukrainian forces. 64 Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (entered into force 3 September 2002) 2187 UNTS 90 (ICC Statute), art 8(2)(b)(vi). 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. ICTY, Prosecutor v Gali, Judgment, IT-98-29-T, Trial Chamber, 5 December 2003, [48]. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The Right to Life in Armed Conflict: Does International Humanitarian Law Provide All the Answers? 125 21 February 2018. [5] An early example of a military surrender is the defeat of Carthage by the Roman Empire at the end of the Second Punic War. Geneva, 12 August 1949", "FM 19-40 Enemy pisoners of war and civilian internees", "Code of Conduct for Members of the United States Armed Forces", "Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977", Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland, Anvil Books Ltd, FP 1949, 1981, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surrender_(military)&oldid=1118630279, This page was last edited on 28 October 2022, at 01:42. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war). Contrary to popular belief, the waving of a white flag is not a legally recognised method of expressing an intention to surrender under either conventional or customary international humanitarian law it does not attract sufficient support within state practice and, indeed, the practice of a number of states openly rejects the contention that the waving of a white flag is constitutive of surrender. International Review of the Red Cross 3CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Article 41(1) further explains that a person hors de combat shall not be made the object of attack; Article 41(2) explains that a person is hors de combat if he clearly expresses an intention to surrender. 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. For information on immigration and links to the 1951 Conventionand 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, see the article aboutImmigration. 32 Its customary status during non-international armed conflict is confirmed by ICRC Study (n 6) r 15. False. 120 It specifically prohibits murder, mutilation. [citation needed] Flags and ensigns are hauled down or furled, and ships' colors are struck. They shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction. 43 In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith (such as by raising a flag of truce) with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed (such as by coming out of cover to take the "surrendering" prisoners into custody).. Perfidy constitutes a breach of the laws of war and so is a war crime, as it degrades the . Also, must all offers of surrender be accepted or are there circumstances in which an offer of surrender may permissibly be refused? The law of war obligates a party to a conflict to accept the surrender of enemy personnel: ibid. Given the importance of surrender to realising the humanitarian objective that underpins international humanitarian law, this legal framework must embrace a common vernacular that enables those embroiled in armed conflict to engage in conduct with the confidence that it is a recognised method of expressing an intention to surrender. A US report into the incident explained:Footnote 76 International Review of the Red Cross 881, 889CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Hague Convention (II) with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its Annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (entered into force 4 September 1900) 26 Martens Nouveau Recueil (ser 2) 949. 48 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. This is so because an individual soldier will always be adding to the military capacity of the enemy: 54 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. [I]t is always permissible due to military necessity to attack the enemy's combatants. [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. [A] soldier who fights to the very last possible moment assumes certain risks. which stipulates that in times of an international armed conflict it is a war crime to kill or wound a person who, having laid down his arms or having no means of defence, has surrendered at discretion. 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 . Render date: 2023-01-18T22:59:46.379Z Dinstein, Yoram, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press The ICC Statute goes farther than the Fourth Geneva Convention. 123 When the first great gathering to inaugurate the English League of Nations Union met in Westminster, people were turned away from the dangerously packed hall, not by the hundred but by the thousand. If they did take prisoners it was only young women or some women and children. Scriptures from major world religions, safety tips & reminders, science facts, world cuisine, entertainment, pets, life discussion topics, and more. The Statemay hand the suspect over to another Stateor an international tribunal for trial. 2005) 975CrossRefGoogle Scholar. United Nations | International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals UN IRMCT. Total War, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 2015, https://www.britannica.com/topic/total-war. 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. See generally For this reason it is a cardinal principle and intransgressible rule of international humanitarian law that civilians cannot be directly targeted.Footnote 117 At the level of small units, for example, once an objective has been seized, an attacking force is trained to fire on the retreating enemy to discourage or prevent a counterattack.Footnote See generally 74 Roberts further notes that [t]he issue is not that ground forces simply cannot surrender to aircraft. 40 Military headquarters subsequently communicated to the pilots the legal advice of a US military lawyer: Lawyer states they cannot surrender to aircraft and are still valid targets.Footnote International Law Studies 541Google Scholar. The rule of surrender does not require the opposing force to detain surrendered persons as prisoners of war (although they can if they wish). 20 No weapons that could screw around with the laws of physics negatively . The signing Nations agreed to further restrictions on the treatment of "protected persons" according to the original Conventions, and clarification of the terms used in the Conventions was introduced. 126 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. The Lieber Code (as it became known) was promulgated by US President Abraham Lincoln to Union forces in 1863 and represented the first attempt to codify and systematise the law of war generally and the rule relating to surrender in particular. The ICRC insists that customary international law also imposes an obligation to refrain from targeting those who have surrendered, yet Rule 47 of the ICRC Study provides no further guidance on what conduct constitutes a legally effective surrender, stating merely that a person is immune from attack where he or she expresses an intention to surrender. While the 1949 Geneva Conventions have been universally ratified, the Additional Protocols have not. Importantly, a significant number of military manuals produced by states identify the laying down of weapons and the raising of hands as an acceptable means through which to manifest an intention to surrender,Footnote Civilians are liable to direct targeting for such timeFootnote William Fenrick, Specific Methods of Warfare in Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Susan Breau (eds), ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press 2007) 141. 37, The view that surrendered forces should not be made the object of attack is supported by the principles of military necessity and humanity. Where persons clearly indicate that they no longer intend to participate in hostilities, they no longer represent a threat to military security and thus there is no military necessity to target them.Footnote 11 Bradbury, Jim, The Medieval Siege (The Boydell Press About the Mechanism | ; Cases; Menu These three limbs will be now explored in greater detail. Also, although surrendered persons cannot be made the object of attack, they can be the victims of incidental injury as a result of attacks against lawful targets provided that the collateral damage is not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (entered into force 8 June 1977) 1125 UNTS 3 (Additional Protocol I), art 51(5)(b); Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck (eds), Customary International Humanitarian Law, Vol I: Rules (International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Cambridge University Press 2005, reprinted 2009) (ICRC Study) r 14. 72 132 Guidance on how a person expresses an intention to surrender is provided by the Official Commentary to Article 41(2) of Additional Protocol I:Footnote J. Cadoux/ICRC Archives. 134 Green, Leslie, The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (Manchester University Press The contribution of this article has been to propose a tripartite test for determining the type of conduct that constitutes an act of surrender and thus imposes a legal obligation upon opposing forces to cease fire: (1) Have surrendering persons engaged in positive acts that clearly indicate that they are outside the theatre of war and therefore no longer represent a threat to the opposing force? 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. It entered into force 19 June 1931. As such, the active hostilities framework [i.e. how and why people become prisoners of war, as well as when surrender must be accepted if recognized (although a false surrender or similar ruse would constitute a war crime in its own right . 45 Additional Protocol I Article 10 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides: 1. Every Statebound by the treaties is under the legal obligation to search for and prosecute those in its territory suspected of committing such crimes, regardless of the nationality of the suspect or victim, or of the place where the act was allegedly committed. r.j.buchan@sheffield.ac.uk. 88 35 His opponent either may not see his surrender, may not recognize his actions as an attempt to surrender in the heat and confusion of battle, or may find it difficult (if not impossible) to halt an onrushing assault to accept a soldier's last minute effort to surrender. See, eg, Human Rights Committee, Suarez de Guerrero (n 82). if we accept arguendo that this view represents lex lata (the law as it stands) civilians who repeatedly directly participate in hostilities possess the capacity to surrender and, in order to become hors de combat and enjoy immunity from direct targeting, they must perform a positive act which signals that they no longer intend to participate in hostilities. The question then becomes what degree of control over the situation is needed in order to invoke the application of international human rights law. 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 . describes them as those precautions which are practicable and practically possible taking into account all circumstances ruling at the time, including humanitarian and military considerations. 49 As Lubell explains, [w]hen we actually come to apply human rights law in practice to situations of armed conflict, certain difficulties do appear: Neither treaty law, including the relevant commentaries, nor military manuals indicate that retreat is indicative of surrender. August 4, 2011 04:00:00 pm. 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. Rule 47 reads:Footnote Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, Merits [2001] ICJ Rep 40, [205]. 62 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 [T]ribal and pre-state societies seldom [took] prisoners and usually [did] not accept surrender: Lawrence H Keely, Surrender and Prisoners in Prehistoric and Tribal Societies in Afflerbach and Strachan (n 2) 7, 7. The Manual then proceeds to explain that [e]verything depends on the circumstances and conditions of the particular case. 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 In naval warfare, the traditional sign of surrender is to strike the flag: Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, 101 Where domestic law does not allow for the exercise of universal jurisdiction, a Statemust introduce the necessary domestic legislative provisions before it can do so, and must actually exercise the jurisdiction, unless it hands the suspect over to another country or international tribunal. 2006)Google Scholar. 132 Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. 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. 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. During times of international armed conflict state practice is fairly uniformFootnote More often than not, however, the principles of military necessity and humanity run into conflict, prompting the law in opposite directions. Once the idea that warfare might have a legal and theological basis was accepted, it followed naturally that (at least in conflicts between Christian princes) considerations of law and humanity should also influence the conduct of war.Footnote The Argentine conduct was arguably treachery if those raising the white flag killed the British soldiers, but not if other Argentines fired unaware of the white flag. The conventional view is that where civilians repeatedly directly participate in hostilities they retain their immunity from direct targeting even during intermissions in direct participation.Footnote Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (entered into force 28 January 1980) 1155 UNTS 331, art 31(3)(b). Have persons who are attempting to surrender engaged in a positive act which clearly indicates that they no longer intend to directly participate in hostilities? 121 29 They organized a provisional govern- ment for service until a permanent one might be established by the people. It is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention . Where, however, a confrontation occurs between a state and an armed group within that state's territory, and that state exercises control over the situation, the members of the armed group are under the jurisdiction of the state and this is a scenario that typically points to human rights as the lex specialis.Footnote That the onus is upon those wishing to surrender to indicate unambiguously that they no longer intend to take a direct part in hostilities explains why international humanitarian law does not impose an obligation upon an opposing force to first offer its enemy the opportunity to surrender before making them the object of an attack,Footnote Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion [1996] ICJ Rep 226, paras 78, 79. Schmitt, Michael N and Widmar, Eric W, On Target: Precision and Balance in the Contemporary Law of Targeting (2014) 7 Presumably, surrendered persons have only to comply with reasonable demands of their captor: captors cannot require their captives to undertake conduct that exposes them to danger and, if they refuse to comply, determine that they have committed a hostile act and are therefore liable to attack. It recognizes that the application of these rules does not affect the legal status of the parties to the conflict. Broadly speaking, the law of international armed conflict distinguishes between two categories of people: combatants and civilians. 29-10-2010 Overview The third Geneva Convention provides a wide range of protection for prisoners of war. 57 Although r 15 of the ICRC Study (n 6) requires precautions to be taken to avoid or minimise incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilians, r 15 should be read as an obligation to avoid or minimise harm to non-military objects generally (including those hors de combat). Similarly, although containing the rule of surrender, Common Article 3 and Article 4 of Additional Protocol II do not specify the conditions that constitute an effective surrender. 118 53 65 This convention produced a treaty designed to protect wounded and sick soldiers during wartime. Is specially recruited locally or abroad, 2. . and reveals that targeting is to be conducted according to the more permissive standards set by international humanitarian law rather than the more restrictive standards imposed by international human rights law.Footnote More recent times brought about an increased tendency to regulate warfare and thus the tendency towards regulating surrender continued and improved.Footnote As a result, they re-emerge as a threat to military security and the opposing force is justified in making them the object of attack. The code of honour forbade warriors to surrender; they had to win or die, with no mercy.Footnote In the words of the Committee, the police action was apparently taken without warning to the victims and without giving them any opportunity to surrender to the police patrol or to offer any explanation of their presence or intentions: Human Rights Committee, Suarez de Guerrero v Colombia, Communication No. From time immemorial, a white flag has been used as a signal of a desire to open communications with the enemy. The Schedules. The view is that where a state and an organised armed group are actually engaging in armed hostilities, this is precisely the scenario where humanitarian law is designed to apply. 63 stipulate that it is forbidden to make persons who have surrendered the object of attack. 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 [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. In practice, it [the rule of surrender] is one of the most important rules of the Protocol [Additional Protocol I (n 6 below)]: 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. 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. d) To declare that no quarter will be given. This has been consistently interpreted as imposing a treaty obligation upon parties to this Protocol to accept valid offers of surrender.Footnote This language was added in 1949 to accommodate situations that have all the characteristics of war without the existence of a formal declaration of war, such as a. It calls on the parties to the conflict to bring all or parts of the Geneva Conventions into force through"special agreements.". 113. 18 Carnahan, Burrus M, Lincoln, Lieber and the Laws of War (1998) 92 Its customary status during international armed conflict is confirmed by ICRC Study (n 6) r 15. 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 This article has explored state practice with the aim of clarifying the criteria that give rise to an effective act of surrender under conventional and customary international humanitarian law in times of international and non-international armed conflict. Section 4 provides some conclusions. 128. The Teaching Manual for the armed forces of Cte d'Ivoire also explains that [t]he white flag is used to indicate the intention to negotiate and to protect the persons who negotiate. For example, is the waving of a white flag indicative of surrender? 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 These conflicts were usually fought without mercy because the initiation of armed conflict was regarded as triggering total war, a concept that described military conflict in which contenders [were] willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory.Footnote View all Google Scholar citations During the Battle for Goose Green, some Argentinean soldiers raised a white flag. It is therefore concerning that a number of military manuals erroneously identify the white flag as a sign of surrender under international humanitarian law. 95 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 The issue is one of reasonableness. The first convention covers soldiers wounded on the battlefield, the second covers sailors wounded and. Upholding the rules Since then, the rules of war have been ratified by 196 states.. A consensus was growing that, although war might still be a necessary element in international politics it should be waged, so far as possible, with humanity: Howard (n 24) 6. Note: This article addresses the international humanitarian law, or law of war. 47 According to this principle, combatants could engage only in those measures that were indispensable for securing the ends of the war.Footnote 39, Given that the rule of surrender appeals to international humanitarian law's two foundational principles of military necessity and humanity, by the end of the nineteenth century extensive state practice had cohered around the notion that enemy forces who had expressed an intention to surrender must not be made the object of attack. Edited by: . This being said, the regulation of armed conflict was skeletal and said very little about how surrendering forces had to be treated. 6 48 23 That civilians can be directly targeted in international armed conflicts where they directly participate in hostilities is expressly mentioned in art 51(3) Additional Protocol I (n 6) and is undoubtedly representative of customary international humanitarian law: HCJ 769/02 Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment v Israel and Others ILDC 597 (IL 2006) [2006], para 35. American Journal of International Law 213, 217CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Henderson (n 55) 88 fn 64. Does the act of retreat amount to conduct that signals an intention to surrender under either treaty or customary international law? The rationale underlying this rule can be explained on the basis that where it is discernible that persons have parachuted from an aircraft in distress and are not engaging in hostile acts, this is regarded as a form of positive conduct that signals that they no longer represent a threat to military security and thus there is no military necessity to directly target them. 100. 108 Has data issue: true If Lewis's claim is false, however, the claim itself is dangerous. Have persons who are surrendering unconditionally submitted to the authority of their captor? Dominican Republic, La Conducta en Combate segn las Leyes de la Guerra, Escuela Superior de las FF.AA. 81 According to the Israeli Military Manual, it is absolutely forbidden in the strongest terms to attack such a combatant [one who has surrendered]. Such environments were generally lawless, meaning that the decision to offer surrender was a risky and dangerous option for combatants to take.Footnote 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. 133 In the air, it is generally accepted that a crew wishing to indicate their intention to cease combat, should do so by waggling the wings while opening the cockpit: Sandoz, Swinarski and Zimmermann (n 1) 487. Pictet, Jean, Development and Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Martinus Nijhoff Holger Afflerbach and Hew Strachan, A True Chameleon? The picture is more complex in relation to the white flag. 100 Jewish & Christian scriptures, science facts, safety & reminder tips, cuisine, sports, books, art, music, movies, TV. 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