Clearing Order

Your acts of aggression and humiliation against the people using this road is a violation to Articles 3 , 27 and 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Your country is both a signatory and acceding State to this convention and is bound by the articles of this convention.

You are thus ordered to remove this roadblock and to terminate your aggression immediately. Failing to do so, will make you a criminal of war, and legal action will be taken against your government and against you personally.

Art 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:
(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(i) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(ii) taking of hostages;
(iii) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
(iv) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

Art. 27. Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.

Art. 33. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.