Présentation - Hague Declaration Expanding Bullets 1899

i n t r o d u c t i o n

Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets. The Hague, 29 July 1899.

General title

First Peace Conference of The Hague, 1899.

Forum of adoption

International Peace Conference 1899

Entry into force

04.09.1900

Like the Declaration of Saint Petersburg of 1868, the Hague Declaration (IV,3) of 1899 gives expression, with regard to a particular bullet, to the customary rule prohibiting the use of weapons which inflict unnecessarily cruel wounds. The Declaration is aimed at the Dum-Dum bullet which is so called after the arsenal near Calcutta where the bullet was first made.

Meetings of forum

18.05.1899 - 29.07.1899, The Hague

Dade of adoption

29.07.1899

Depositary

Netherlands

Authentic text

French

Source

D.Schindler and J.Toman, The Laws of Armed Conflicts, Martinus Nihjoff Publisher, 1988, pp.109-110.

Keywords

MEANS OF COMBAT; USE OF WEAPONS; WEAPON; PROHIBITION; WEAPON CAUSING SUPERFLUOUS INJURY; BULLET WHICH FLATTENS; CONVENTIONAL WEAPON; INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT