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SCHEDULE 8 Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: articles 6 to 9

Article 8 War crimes

2 For the purpose of this Statute, “war crimes” means:
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives

This provision is narrower than the ICC Statute.

The UK reservation to Additional Protocol 1, which purports to allow reprisals, may be used to interpret the crimes under the act to not include prima facie criminal conduct committed as a reprisal, in stark contrast to the judgment of the ICTY in Kupre_ki_, which held that a crime may still be committed when the targeting of protected persons or object was carried out in reprisal (Judgment, Kupre_ki_ (IT-95-16-T), Trial Chamber, 14 January 2000, §§ 521–536).