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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART A
PROVISIONS OF SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW

2. SPECIAL PART

Art. 9
War crimes against persons

1. Anyone who, in connection with an international or non international armed conflict:

f) Displaces persons protected according to the provisions of international humanitarian law or forces them to move from the place they lawfully reside to another state or region, by deporting them or with the employment of other coercive means prohibited by international law, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand,
g) Imposes or carries out against persons protected according to the provisions of international humanitarian law the death sentence or sentences entailing deprivation of liberty or other sentences of comparable gravity, without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable,

PART A
PROVISIONS OF SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW

2. SPECIAL PART

Art. 9
War crimes against persons

3. Anyone who in connection with an international armed conflict:
(a) Unlawfully confines a person protected by international humanitarian law or unduly delays his/ her repatriation,

PART A
PROVISIONS OF SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW

2. SPECIAL PART

Art. 9
War crimes against persons

3. Anyone who in connection with an international armed conflict:

(c) Compels a person protected by international humanitarian law with force or with threat of force to serve in the armed forces of a hostile power or to take part in military operations against his/her country, shall be sentenced to a term of incarceration (5-20 years).

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(i) Wilful killing;
(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
(v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
(viii) Taking of hostages.