Practice question
A town contains several clearly separated military objectives among concentrations of civilians. Planners propose bombardment treating all objectives and intervening town as one single military objective. Which rule directly addresses this?
- Article 51(5)(a)’s prohibition of the described area bombardment as indiscriminate
- A rule requiring every town to be one target
- An automatic waiver for every urban battlefield
- A private right to combine all properties
- A rule making separation of objectives irrelevant
Legal references
- Additional Protocol I Articles 51-52: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977/article-51 ; https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977/article-52; Articles 51(4)-(5),52(2)-(3).
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