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PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS
ART. 103. — The Internee Committees shall further the physical,
spiritual and intellectual well-being of the internees.
In case the internees decide, in particular, to organize a system of
mutual assistance amongst themselves, this organization would be
within the competence of the Committees in addition to the special
duties entrusted to them under other provisions of the present
Convention.
II.
Duties
ART. 104. — Members of Internee Committees shall not be
required to perform any other work, if the accomplishment of their
duties is rendered more difficult thereby.
Members of Internee Committees may appoint from amongst
the internees such assistants as they may require. All material
facilities shall be granted to them, particularly a certain freedom of
movement necessary for the accomplishment of their duties (visits
to labour detachments, receipt of supplies, etc.).
All facilities shall likewise be accorded to members of Internee
Committees for communication by post and telegraph with the
detaining authorities, the Protecting Powers, the International
Committee of the Red Cross and their delegates, and with the
organizations which give assistance to internees, Committee
members in labour detachments shall enjoy similar facilities for
communication with their Internee Committee in the principal
place of internment. Such communications shall not be limited, nor
considered as forming a part of the quota mentioned in Article 107.
Members of Internee Committees who are transferred shall be
allowed a reasonable time to acquaint their successors with current
affairs.
III.
Prerogatives
CHAPTER VIII
Relations with the Exterior
ART. 105. — Immediately upon interning protected persons, the
Detaining Powers shall inform them, the Power to which they owe
allegiance and their Protecting Power of the measures taken for
executing the provisions of the present Chapter. The Detaining
Powers shall likewise inform the Parties concerned of any
subsequent modifications of such measures.
Notification
of measures
taken