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Article 114 - Prisoners Meeting with Accidents

from Section I - Direct repatriation and accommodation in neutral countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Section I of Part IV of the Third Convention deals with the directrepatriation and accommodation in neutral countries primarily of wounded andsick prisoners of war. Articles 109 and 110 are not applicable exclusivelyto prisoners of war who are wounded or sick at the time they fall into thepower of the enemy. However, disabilities and injuries that qualifyprisoners of war for direct repatriation or for accommodation in a neutralcountry are generally of a kind sustained during hostilities, such as theloss of a limb or wounds from projectiles or metallic splinters entering thebody.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
, pp. 1603 - 1605
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Maia, Catherine, Kolb, Robert and Scalia, Damien, La Protection des Prisonniers de Guerre en Droit International Humanitaire, Bruylant, Brussels, 2015, pp. 493494.Google Scholar
Vance, Jonathan F. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, 2nd edition, Grey House Publishing, Millerton, New York, 2006, pp. 266267.Google Scholar

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