No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, is the practice of executing enemy combatants without affording them capture as prisoners of war. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it is considered a war crime; it is also prohibited in customary international law and by the Rome Statute.
No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, is the practice of executing enemy combatants without affording them capture as prisoners of war. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it is considered a war crime; it is also prohibited in customary international law and by the Rome Statute.
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