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Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 27 July 1929.
Part I : General provisions
LAND;LIMITATION ART:

    Article 1. The present Convention shall apply without prejudice to the stipulations of Part VII:
    (1) To all persons referred to in Articles 1Database 'IHL - Treaties & Comments', View '1.Traités \1.2. Par Article', 2Database 'IHL - Treaties & Comments', View '1.Traités \1.2. Par Article' and 3Database 'IHL - Treaties & Comments', View '1.Traités \1.2. Par Article' of the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention
    (IV) of 18 October 1907, concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, who are captured by the enemy.
    (2) To all persons belonging to the armed forces of belligerents who are captured by the enemy in the course of operations of maritime or aerial war, subject to such exceptions (derogations) as the conditions of such capture render inevitable. Nevertheless these exceptions shall not infringe the fundamental principles of the present Convention; they shall cease from the moment when the captured persons shall have reached a prisoners of war camp.

 
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