A measure of clemency that the authorities in power are invited by the law of armed conflict to grant as widely as possible at the end of hostilities in a non-international armed conflict to persons who participated in the conflict or are detained or interned for reasons related thereto.
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LEGAL SOURCE
CASES
South Africa, AZAPO v. Republic of South Africa
Sri Lanka, Jaffna Hospital Zone
Columbia, Constitutional Conformity of Protocol II[Paras 41-43]
Case Study, Armed Conflicts in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea [Part 3. D.],
Bangladesh/India/Pakistan, 1974 Agreement [Arts 13-15]
Chile, Prosecution of Osvaldo Romo Mena [Para. 12]
Case Study, Armed Conflicts in the Great Lakes Region [Part I.F.1]
El Salvador, Supreme Court Judgment on the Unconstitutionality of the Amnesty Law
Colombia Peace Agreement
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
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