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IV – Classes of PersonsChapter Contents4.1 Introduction4.2 The Armed Forces and the Civilian Population4.3 Lawful Combatants and Unprivileged Belligerents4.4 Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Combatants4.5 Armed Forces of a State4.6 Other Militia and Volunteer Corps4.7 Levée en Masse4.8 Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Civilians4.9 Military Medical and Religious Personnel4.10 Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Military Medical and Religious Personnel4.11 Authorized Staff of Voluntary Aid Societies4.12 Staff of a Recognized Aid Society of a Neutral Country4.13 Auxiliary Medical Personnel4.14 Personnel Engaged in Duties Related to the Protection of Cultural Property4.15 Persons Authorized to Accompany the Armed Forces4.16 Crews of Merchant Marine Vessels or Civil Aircraft4.17 Spies, Saboteurs, and Other Persons Engaging in Similar Acts BehindEnemy Lines4.18 Private Persons Who Engage in Hostilities4.19 Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Unprivileged Belligerents4.20 Children4.21 Mercenaries4.22 AP I Provisions on Civil Defense Personnel4.23 Law Enforcement Officers4.24 Journalists4.25 Delegates or Representatives of the Protecting Powers4.26 ICRC and Other Impartial Humanitarian Organizations4.27 Determining the Status of Detainees in Cases of Doubt4.1 INTRODUCTIONThis Chapter addresses different classes of persons under the law of war. The law of warhas created a framework of classes of persons to help confine the fighting between opposingmilitary forces and thereby to help protect the civilian population from the effects of war. 1This Chapter addresses issues relating to various classes of people under the law of warincluding: (1) who is included in the various classes, such as “combatant” and “civilian”; (2) therights, duties, and liabilities of the persons in each class; and (3) how certain factual categories ofpersons, such as journalists, police officers, or child soldiers, fall within various classes and aretreated under the law of war.1 Refer to § 2.5.1 (Distinction as a Framework of Legal Classes).98

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