TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 118—WAR CRIMES

§ 2441. War crimes

(d) (1) (E) MUTILATION OR MAIMING.—The act of a person who intentionally injures, or con-spires or attempts to injure, or injures whether intentionally or unintentionally in the course of committing any other offense under this subsection, one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities, in-cluding those placed out of combat by sick-ness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, by disfiguring the person or persons by any mutilation thereof or by permanently dis-abling any member, limb, or organ of his body, without any legitimate medical or dental purpose.

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
(i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture