☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Principle of Distinction

A fundamental rule of international humanitarian law requiring parties to an armed conflict to distinguish between combatants and civilians, and between military objectives and civilian objects.

Etymology: English compound · Category: International Humanitarian Law · Source: Additional Protocol I, Art. 48 (1977)
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