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{{Short description|When a state violates international laws to punish another state which already broke them}} {{hatnote group|{{other uses}}{{distinguish|Retorsion|Reprisal operations}} }} A '''reprisal''' is a limited and deliberate violation of [[international law]] to punish another [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] state that has already broken them.<ref name="darcy03">{{cite journal |last1=DARCY |first1=SHANE |title=THE EVOLUTION OF THE LAW OF BELLIGERENT REPRISALS |journal=Military Law Review |date=2003 |volume=175 |pages=184β251}}</ref><ref>Karl Josef Partsch: Self-Preservation. EPIL IV (2000), pages 380-383</ref> Since the [[Protocol I|1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP 1)]], reprisals in the [[Law of war|laws of war]] are extremely limited,{{sfn|Bennett|2019|p=25}} as they commonly breach the rights of [[non-combatant]]s.
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