'Command responsibility - national proceedings' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

Chapter XI
Crimes Against Humanity

Title II
War Crimes

Sinful Warfare

Section 160

A military commander who, violating the rules of the international law of warfare

a) pursues war operation which causes serious damage in the life, health or goods of the civilian population, in internationally protected cultural goods, in facilities containing dangerous forces,
b) takes offensive against a locality without defence or a weapon-free zone,
commits a felony and shall be punishable with imprisonment from ten years to fifteen years, or life imprisonment.