'Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC' in document 'Bulgaria - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

Chapter Fourteen - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Section II - Crimes Against the Laws and Customs of Waging War

Article 410
A person who in violation of the rules of international law for waging war:

a) perpetrates or orders the perpetration of, on wounded, sick, shipwrecked persons or sanitary personnel, acts of murder, tortures, or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, inflicts or orders grave sufferings, mutilation or other impairments of health to be inflicted to such persons;

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(b) 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:
(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