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population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops,livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works. 13217.9.2.1 Starvation of Enemy Forces Not Prohibited. It is only actions that are forthe purpose of starving civilians as a method of combat that are prohibited under this rule;measures to starve enemy forces are not prohibited. 133 For example, States may institute generalfood control programs that involve the destruction of crops and the adequate provision of thecivilian population with food. 134Military action intended to starve enemy forces, however, must not be taken where it isexpected to result in incidental harm to the civilian population that is excessive in relation to themilitary advantage anticipated to be gained. 135Feasible precautions to reduce the risk of harm to the civilian population or otherreasonable measures to mitigate the burden to the civilian population may also be warrantedwhen seeking to starve enemy forces. 13617.10 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN IN NIAC17.10.1 General Protection and Care of Children. Children shall be provided with thecare and aid they require. 137Children shall receive an education, including religious and moral education, in keepingwith the wishes of their parents, or in the absence of parents, of those responsible for theircare. 138 All appropriate steps shall be taken to facilitate the reunion of families temporarilyseparated. 139132 Consider AP II art. 14 (“Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is therefore prohibited toattack, destroy, remove or render useless, for that purpose, objects indispensable to the survival of the civilianpopulation, such as food stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking waterinstallations and supplies and irrigation works.”).133 Refer to § 5.20.1 (Starvation – Distinction).134 For example, R.W. Komer, The Malayan Emergency in Retrospect: Organization of A SuccessfulCounterinsurgency Effort, 59 (RAND Corporation, Feb. 1972) (“In order to force the insurgents to make supplytheir major concern, the GOM turned to sizable food denial campaigns as the preferred form of security forceoperations. By July 1953 no less than 77 such operations had been mounted in the state of Negri Sembilan alone. …It did not take much ‘seepage’ to feed a guerrilla who could subsist on a daily ration of a handful of rice. But hecould store without detection only about six to eight weeks’ supply, and the number of people, time, and effortinvolved in a ‘food lift’ from village to jungle edge to deep jungle was such as to make the lift vulnerable todiscovery.”).135 Refer to § 5.20.2 (Starvation – Proportionality).136 Refer to § 5.20.2 (Starvation – Proportionality).137 Consider AP II art. 4(3) (“Children shall be provided with the care and aid they require, … .”).138 Consider AP II art. 4(3)(a) (“they shall receive an education, including religious and moral education, in keepingwith the wishes of their parents, or in the absence of parents, of those responsible for their care;”).1037