itting outrages upon personal dignity, in
particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
iii) Taking of hostages;
iv) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of
executions without previous judgement pronounced by a
regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees
which are generally recognized as indispensable.
d) Paragraph 2 "c" applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature.
e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian
population as such or against individual civilians not taking
direct part in hostilities;
ii) 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;
iii) 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;
iv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings
dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable
purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the
sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military
objectives;
v) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
vi) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced
prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7,
paragraph 2 "f", enforced sterilization, and any other form of
sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of
article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;
vii) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of
fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to
participate actively in hostilities;
viii) Ordering the displacement of the civilian population
for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of
the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so
demand;
ix) Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant
adversary;
x) Declaring that no quarter will be given;
xi) Subjecting persons who are in the power of another
party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or
scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified
by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person
concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which
cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person
or persons;
xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary
unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by
the necessities of the conflict;
f) Paragraph 2 "e" applies to armed conflicts not of an
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