Reprisal

A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them.[1][2] Since the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP 1), reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited,[3] as they commonly breach the rights of non-combatants.

  1. ^ DARCY, SHANE (2003). "THE EVOLUTION OF THE LAW OF BELLIGERENT REPRISALS". Military Law Review. 175: 184–251.
  2. ^ Karl Josef Partsch: Self-Preservation. EPIL IV (2000), pages 380-383
  3. ^ Bennett 2019, p. 25.