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BOOK II
SPECIAL PART
TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY
CHAPTER IV
COMMON PROVISIONS
Article 136. Responsibility of military commanders and other superiors
1. A military commander or person acting as such, aware that the forces under his or her effective command and control or effective responsibility or control are committing any of the crimes provided in this title, fails to adopt all necessary and appropriate measures to prevent or deter the commission of such acts or to immediately report them to competent authorities, is punishable with the sentence corresponding to the crime(s) that has (have) actually been committed.
2. The provision of the previous subarticle is, mutatis mutandis, applicable to a superior in connection with control of subordinates under his or her effective authority and control.