Article 5 (Responsibility of Commanders and Other Superiors)
A military commander (includes any person who is effectively acting as a military commander. Hereafter, the same applies.) or superior of a group or organization (includes any person who is effectively exercising an authority of superior. Hereafter, the same applies.) shall be subject to punishment that provided for in each such article, if he or she failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent a subordinate under his or her effective authority from committing crimes such as Genocide even though he or she has already known that the forces were committing or about to be committed.