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hostilities to conclude agreements for the release, the repatriation, the return to places ofresidence, or the accommodation in a neutral country of certain classes of internees, in particularchildren, pregnant women, and mothers with infants and young children, wounded and sick, andinternees who have been detained for a long time. 16910.10 SEGREGATION OF INTERNEES10.10.1 Segregation From Other Types of Detainees. Internees shall be accommodatedand administered separately from POWs and from persons deprived of liberty for any otherreason. 170 This rule reflects the difference in character between the internment of internees fromother types of detention or confinement. 17110.10.2 Accommodation According to Nationality, Language, and Customs. TheDetaining Power shall, as far as possible, accommodate the internees according to theirnationality, language, and customs. 172 Unlike the comparable rule in the GPW, this provisionhas the qualification “as far as possible” because of the competing interest in leaving interneesnear their families and because POWs are generally automatically grouped by nationality as aconsequence of the circumstances of their capture. 173 Internees who are nationals of the samecountry shall not be separated merely because they speak different languages. 17410.10.3 Families Kept Together. Throughout the duration of their internment, membersof the same family, and in particular parents and children, shall be lodged together in the sameplace of internment, except when separation of a temporary nature is necessitated for reasons ofemployment or health or for the purposes of enforcement of the provisions of Chapter IX (Penal169 GC art. 132 (“The Parties to the conflict shall, moreover, endeavour during the course of hostilities, to concludeagreements for the release, the repatriation, the return to places of residence or the accommodation in a neutralcountry of certain classes of internees, in particular children, pregnant women and mothers with infants and youngchildren, wounded and sick, and internees who have been detained for a long time.”).170 GC art. 84 (“Internees shall be accommodated and administered separately from prisoners of war and frompersons deprived of liberty for any other reason.”).171 GC COMMENTARY 384 (“This provision shows once more that the detention of internees is quite different incharacter from that of prisoners of war or common criminals. Internment is simply a precautionary measure andshould not be confused with the penalty of imprisonment.”).172 GC art. 82 (“The Detaining Power shall, as far as possible, accommodate the internees according to theirnationality, language and customs.”).173 GC COMMENTARY 380 (“This paragraph corresponds to paragraph 3 of Article 22 of the Convention relative tothe Treatment of Prisoners of War. It states, but in less mandatory form, the principIe that internees should begrouped, adding the words ‘as far as possible’ which do not occur in the Prisoners of War Convention. Indeed,prisoners of war generally fall into groups of the same nationality as a natural consequence of being capturedtogether and grouping can be organized to a certain extent automatically. The grouping of civilians, on the otherhand, who are taken into custody separately and sometimes coming from places distant from one another, presentssome difficulties. It is better in certain cases to leave the internees near their families rather than to send them to adistance, in order to reunite them with persons of the same language and nationality. It is for this reason that Article82 of the Fourth Convention is not mandatory.”). Refer to § 9.12.1 (Assembling According to Nationality,Language, and Customs).174 GC art. 82 (“Internees who are nationals of the same country shall not be separated merely because they havedifferent languages.”).671