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Repatriation and Accommodation in Neutral Countries of Wounded and Sick Prisoners of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean-Maurice Rubli
Jean-Maurice Rubli*
Affiliation:
Delegate of the ICRC Former member of the Mixed Medical Commissions
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The termination of captivity for reasons of health is one of the rights of prisoners of war stipulated by the Geneva Conventions.

Article 109 of the Third Convention lays down that Parties to the conflict are bound to send back to their own country, regardless of number or rank, seriously wounded and seriously sick prisoners of war.

The same article stipulates that the belligerent Parties shall endeavour to make arrangements for the “accommodation in neutral countries”, as a subsidiary solution, of all cases where captivity should be terminated for humanitarian reasons, but where, for military motives, the States concerned are unable to agree to repatriation. We are here above all thinking of aged prisoners, of those who have undergone a long period of captivity or of those whose mental health has deteriorated.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 5 , Issue 57 , December 1965 , pp. 623 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1965

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Footnotes

1

Talk given to the Group for International Missions of the ICRC.

References

page 624 note 1 Our underlining.