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Article 131 - Responsibilities of the Contracting Parties

from Section I - General provisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Article 131 clarifies the relationship between individual criminalresponsibility for grave breaches of the Conventions and Stateresponsibility for acts committed by the armed forces or persons actingunder the authority or command of a State in respect of grave breaches. Thisarticle is common to the four Conventions.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1918 - 1924
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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