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White flag
White flags have had different meanings throughout history and depending on the locale.
The white flag is an internationally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire and for negotiation. It is also used to symbolize surrender since it is often the weaker party that requests negotiation. It is also flown on ships serving as cartels. A white flag signifies that an approaching negotiator is unarmed, intending to surrender, or wants to communicate. Persons carrying or waving a white flag are not to be fired upon, nor are they allowed to open fire. The use of the flag to request parley is included in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907:
CHAPTER III -- On Flags of Truce
Article 32
An individual is considered a parlementaire who is authorized by one of the belligerents to enter into communication with the other, and who carries a white flag. He has a right to inviolability, as well as the trumpeter, bugler, or drummer, the flag-bearer, and the interpreter who may accompany him.
— Hague Convention of 1899, Laws of War :
Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899
Annex to the Convention, Section II, Chapter III, Article 32
The improper use of the flag is forbidden by the rules of war and constitutes a war crime of perfidy. Numerous cases of such behavior have been reported in conflicts, such as combatants using white flags as a ruse to approach and attack enemy combatants or killings of combatants attempting to surrender by carrying white flags.
The first mention of the usage of white flags to surrender is made during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). Writing during the age of the Roman Empire, the historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in 109 CE. Before that time, Roman armies would surrender by holding their shields above their heads.
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White flag
White flags have had different meanings throughout history and depending on the locale.
The white flag is an internationally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire and for negotiation. It is also used to symbolize surrender since it is often the weaker party that requests negotiation. It is also flown on ships serving as cartels. A white flag signifies that an approaching negotiator is unarmed, intending to surrender, or wants to communicate. Persons carrying or waving a white flag are not to be fired upon, nor are they allowed to open fire. The use of the flag to request parley is included in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907:
CHAPTER III -- On Flags of Truce
Article 32
An individual is considered a parlementaire who is authorized by one of the belligerents to enter into communication with the other, and who carries a white flag. He has a right to inviolability, as well as the trumpeter, bugler, or drummer, the flag-bearer, and the interpreter who may accompany him.
— Hague Convention of 1899, Laws of War :
Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899
Annex to the Convention, Section II, Chapter III, Article 32
The improper use of the flag is forbidden by the rules of war and constitutes a war crime of perfidy. Numerous cases of such behavior have been reported in conflicts, such as combatants using white flags as a ruse to approach and attack enemy combatants or killings of combatants attempting to surrender by carrying white flags.
The first mention of the usage of white flags to surrender is made during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). Writing during the age of the Roman Empire, the historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in 109 CE. Before that time, Roman armies would surrender by holding their shields above their heads.