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Article 28 D
War Crimes
For the purposes of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means any of the offences listed , in
particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large scale
commission of such crimes.
a)
Grave breaches
of the Geneva
any of the following
Conventions
acts against persons
of 12 August
or property
provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
1949,
protected
namely,
under the
i) Wilful killing;
ii)
Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
v)
Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the
iii)
iv)
vi)
Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by
military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
forces of a hostile Power;
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the
rights of fair and regular trial;
vii) | Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
viii)
Taking of hostages.
Grave breaches of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions
of 8 June 1977 and other serious violations of the laws and customs
applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework
of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as
against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
ii)
ili)
such
or
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects
which are not military objectives;
Intentionally directing attacks
against
personnel,
installations,
material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or
peacekeeping
mission
in accordance with the Charter of the United
Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to
civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed
conflict;
Intentionally launching
an attack
in the knowledge
that such
attack
will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage
to
civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the
natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to
the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
Intentionally launching an attack against works or installations
containing dangerous forces in the knowledge that such attack will