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  6-30. Additional Protocol I provides that the 1949 Geneva Conventions and AP I will cease to apply upon
  the termination of occupation (AP I art. 3(b)). Occupying Powers who are party to AP I would be bound by
  this rule. The United States is a not a party to AP I. In any case, individuals entitled to GC protection who
  remain in the custody of the Occupying Power following the end of occupation retain that protection until
  their release, repatriation, or re-establishment (GC art. 6).
  PROTECTED PERSONS
  6-31. The GC is concerned in large part with the welfare of “protected persons” located either in occupied
  territory or the home territory of a party to the conflict. Subject to certain exceptions, persons protected by
  the GC are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in the case of
  conflict or occupation, “in the hands of” a party to the conflict or occupying State of which they are not
  nationals (GC art. 4). The following persons are specifically excluded from being considered protected
  persons under the GC, even though they may nonetheless receive the protection of the population against
  certain consequences of armed conflict:
  * Nationals of any State that is not a party to GC;
  * A State’s own nationals;
  * Nationals of a neutral State who find themselves in the territory of a belligerent State, and nationals
  of a co-belligerent State (for example, nationals of a State that is a multinational partner of the
  Occupying Power in the armed conflict), while the State of which they are nationals has normal
  diplomatic representation with the Occupying Power; and
  * Persons protected by the GWS, GWS Sea, or GPW (for example, those persons entitled to be
  treated as POWs or retained personnel if captured by the Occupying Power).
  HUMANE TREATMENT AND OTHER BASIC PROTECTIONS FOR
  PROTECTED PERSONS IN OOCCUPIED TERRITORY
  6-32. The requirements of humane treatment and other basic protections for protected persons discussed in
  Chapter 5 (see paragraphs 5-16 through 5-34) apply to protected persons in occupied territory.
  6-33. The Occupying Power has certain obligations to respect the rights of protected persons secured by the
  GC. For example, protected persons who are in occupied territory must not be deprived, in any case or in any
  manner whatsoever, of the benefits of the GC by any change introduced, as a result of the occupation of a
  territory, into the institutions or governments of the occupied territory, nor by any agreement concluded
  between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power, nor by any annexation by the
  latter of the whole or part of the occupied territory (GC art. 47).
  6-34. The Occupying Power may not enter into any special agreements that would adversely affect the
  situation of protected persons, as defined by the GC, nor restrict the rights that the GC confers upon them
  (GC art. 7). The Occupying Power may also not evade its responsibilities through the purported renunciation
  by protected persons of the rights secured to them by the GC and by any special agreements referred to in
  Article 7 of the GC (GC art. 8).
  ADMINISTRATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY
  6-35. Under LOAC, once the authority of the legitimate power has in fact passed into the hands of the
  Occupying Power, the latter must take all the measures in its power to restore and ensure, as far as possible,
  public order and safety while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force of the country (HR
  art. 43).
  DUTIES OF THE OCCUPYING POWER IN GENERAL
  6-36. The Occupying Power has a general duty to restore and maintain public order and safety, and to provide
  for the preservation of the rights of the inhabitants, including rights to their private property.
  6-37. The Occupying Power may take measures of control and security necessary to maintain orderly
  government of the occupied territory, to ensure its own security, and to further the purposes of the war (HR