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Art. 6
    Art. 6. Wounded or sick combatants, to whatever nation they may belong, shall be collected and cared for.
    Commanders-in-Chief may hand over immediately to the enemy outposts enemy combatants wounded during an engagement, when circumstances allow and subject to the agreement of both parties.
    Those who, after their recovery, are recognized as being unfit for further service, shall be repatriated.
    The others may likewise be sent back, on condition that they shall not again, for the duration of hostilities, take up arms.
    Evacuation parties, and the personnel conducting them, shall be considered as being absolutely neutral.


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