iduals
belonging to the hostile nation or army;
xii) Declaring that no quarter will be given;
xiii) Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless
such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the
necessities of war;
xiv) Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a
court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the
hostile party;
xv) Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take
part in the operations of war directed against their own
country, even if they were in the belligerent's service before
the commencement of the war;
xvi) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by
assault;
xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons;
xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases,
and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in
the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which
does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
xx) Employing weapons, projectiles and material and
methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous
injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently
indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed
conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material
and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive
prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by
an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set
forth in articles 121 and 123;
xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in
particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
xxii) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced
prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7,
paragraph 2 "f", enforced sterilization, or any other form of
sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva
Conventions;
xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other
protected person to render certain points, areas or military
forces immune from military operations;
xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings,
material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the
distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity
with international law;
xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a
method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable
to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies
as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of
fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to
participate actively in hostilities.
c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of
all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
ii) Comm
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