BOOK II
SPECIAL PART

TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

CHAPTER II
WAR CRIMES

Article 127. War crimes committed using prohibited means of warfare

1. Any person who, within the context of an armed conflict of an international or noninternational nature, employs weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or to cause indiscriminate effects, in violation of international law applied to armed conflict, is punishable with 12 to 25 years imprisonment :

2. The previous subarticle covers, namely, the use of :

a) Poison or poisoned weapons ;
b) Asphyxiating, toxic or other similar gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices ;
c) Projectiles that expand or flatten easily inside the human body, such as hollow-pointed jacketed bullets or those with incisions ;
d) Antipersonnel landmines ;
e) Chemical weapons ;
f) Weapons whose major effect is to cause wounds with shrapnel which cannot be located by x-ray in the human body ;
g) Incendiary weapons ;
h) Laser weapons causing blindness ;

3. The weapons, instruments and products referred to in the previous subarticle correspond to the definitions set out by international law.