7 5 the person abstains from anyhostile act and does not attempt to escape. (1) “Military necessity” means the necessity of employing measures which are indispensable to achieve a legitimate aim of the conflict and are not otherwise prohibited by International Humanitarian Law. (m) “Non-defended locality” means a locality that fulfills the following conditions: (1)all combatants, as well as mobile weapons and mobile military equipment, must have been evacuated; (2) no hostile use of fixed military installations or establishments must have been made; (3) no acts of hostility must have been committed by the authorities or by the population; and (4) no activities in support of military operations must have been undertaken. (n) “No quarter will be given” means refusing to spare the life of anybody, even of persons manifestly unable to defend themselves or who clearly express their intention to surrender. (0) “Perfidy” means acts which invite the confidence of an adversary to lead him/her to believe he/she 1s entitled to, or is obliged to accord, -protection under the rules of International Humanitarian Law, with the intent to betray that confidence, including but not limited to: (1) feigning an intent to negotiate under a flag of truce; (2) feigning surrender; (3) feigning incapacitation by wounds or sickness; (4) feigning civilian or noncombatant status; and 6 (5) feigning protective status by use of signs, emblems or uniforms of the United Nations or of a neutral or other State not party to the conflict. (p) “Persecution” means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of identity of the group or collectivity. (q) “Protected person” in an armed conflict means: (1) a person wounded, sick or shipwrecked, whether civilian or military; (2) a prisoner of war or any person deprived of liberty for reasons related to an armed conflict; (3) a civilian or any person not taking a direct part or having ceased to take part in the hostilities in the power of the adverse party; (4) a person who, before the beginning of hostilities, was considered a stateless person or refugee under the relevant international instruments accepted by the parties to the conflict concerned or under the national legislation of the state of refuge or state of residence; (5) a member of the medical personnel assigned exclusively to medical purposes or to the administration of medical units or to the operation of or administration of medical transports; or (6) a memberof the religious personnel who is exclusively engaged in the work of their ministry and attached to the armed forces of a party to the conflict, its medica] units or medical transports, or non-denominational, noncombatant military personnel carrying out functions similar to religious personnel. ‘ (r) “Superior” means: (1) a military commanderor a person effectively acting as a military commander; or