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Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 103. War crimes against persons
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(d) subjects a protected person to rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 103. War crimes against persons
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(f) conscripts or enlists children under 18 years of age into armed forces or uses them to participate actively in hostitilies,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 103. War crimes against persons
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(g) subjects a protected person to a medical or scientific experiment that is not carried out in the interest of the person concerned and that seriously endangers the life or health of such person,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 103. War crimes against persons
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(h) in violation of international law deports or forcibly transfers a protected person from an area in which the person is lawfully present or unlawfully confines a protected person,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 104. War crimes against property and civil rights
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(a) pillages,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 106. War crimes consisting in the use of prohibited methods of warfare
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(a) directs an attack against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 106. War crimes consisting in the use of prohibited methods of warfare
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(f) directs an attack against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, cultural monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, or against any other civil object, provided they are not military objectives,
Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Section 106. War crimes consisting in the use of prohibited methods of warfare
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict
(h) declares or threatens that no quarter will be given.
Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(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