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The protocol prohibits, in all circumstances, making the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of
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does not appear to prohibit the use of thermobaric munitions against military targets. Their use against civilian populations or infrastructure may be banned by this Protocol. As of November 2022, all past attempts to regulate or restrict thermobaric weapons have failed.
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against military targets within a concentration of civilians, and limits the use of incendiary weapons delivered by other means. Forest and other plants may not be a target unless they are used to conceal combatants or other military objectives.
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which only have a secondary or additional incendiary effect; these munition types are not considered to be incendiary weapons.
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of a substance delivered on the target. The protocol also prohibits the use of air-delivered
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Sub-Section of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
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Incendiary weapons as a category does not appear to include
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Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious Or To Have
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Index

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
UN Secretary-General
United Nations
treaty
incendiary weapons
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Indiscriminate Effects
thermobaric weapons
international law
flame
heat
chemical reaction
incendiary weapons
smoke shells
International Committee of the Red Cross
Customary International Humanitarian Law
Text and signatories of the protocol


"Convention On Prohibitions Or Restrictions On The Use Of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious Or To Have Indiscriminate Effects (With Protocols I, II And III)"
"Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980"
"Ukraine's ambassador to US says Russia used a vacuum bomb, international groups say banned cluster munitions used to strike shelter"


"What are thermobaric weapons? And why should they be banned?"
"The Ukraine crisis and the international law of armed conflict (LOAC): some Q & A"
"Father of all bombs': Russia's brutal weapon"
"1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons – Factsheet"
"Rule 84. The Protection of Civilians and Civilian Objects from the Effects of Incendiary Weapons"
"Protocol III to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects: Text of the Protocol"

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