A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them.Karl Josef Partsch: Self-Preservation. EPIL IV (2000), pages 380-383 Since the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP 1), reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited, as they commonly breach the rights of non-combatants.
A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them.Karl Josef Partsch: Self-Preservation. EPIL IV (2000), pages 380-383 Since the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP 1) reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited, as they commonly breach the rights of non-combatants.