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Section 6: Incendiary weapons

Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain · PART II: PROHIBITIONS OR RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

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6. Incendiary weapons No person shall make— (a) the civilian population, an individual civilian or a civilian object the object of attack by an incendiary weapon; (b) any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by an air-delivered incendiary weapon; (c) any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of an incendiary weapon other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and every feasible precaution is taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimising, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects; (d) forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by an incendiary weapon except when these natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives.

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