Part 2
SPECIAL PART
Chapter 8
OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Division 4
War Crimes
§ 95. Acts of war against civilian population
A person who attacks civilians in war zones or destroys or renders unusable food or water supplies, sown crops or domestic animals indispensable for the survival of civilian population, or attacks structures or equipment containing dangerous forces, shall be punished by 5 to 15 years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment.
§ 96. Illegal use of means of warfare against civilians
A person who uses means of warfare in a manner not allowing to discriminate between military and civilian objects and thereby causes the death of civilians, health damage to civilians, damage to civilian objects or a danger to the life, health or property of civilians shall be punished by 6 to 15 years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment.
§ 97. Attacks against civilians
A person who kills, tortures, causes health damage to, rapes, compels to serve in the armed forces or participate in military operations of a hostile state, takes hostage, illegally deprives of liberty or deprives of the right to fair trial a civilian in a war zone or in an occupied territory, or displaces residents of an occupying state in an occupied territory, or displaces residents of an occupied territory, shall be punished by 6 to 20 years’ imprisonment.
§ 98. Unlawful treatment of prisoners of war or interned civilians
A person required to take care of prisoners of war or interned civilians who mistreats a prisoner of war or an interned civilian or fails to perform his or her duties and thereby causes the situation of the prisoners of war or interned civilians to deteriorate, but the act does not contain the necessary elements of an offence provided for in § 99 of this Code§ 99 of this Code,
shall be punished by a pecuniary punishment or up to 3 years’ imprisonment.
§ 99. Attacks against prisoners of war or interned civilians
Killing, torturing, inhuman treatment, causing health damage, compelling to serve in armed forces, deprivation of the right to fair trial, unjustified delay in release or repatriation, if committed against a prisoner of war or an interned civilian, is punishable by 6 to 20 years’ imprisonment.
§ 100. Refusal to provide assistance to sick, wounded or shipwrecked persons
Refusal to provide assistance to a sick, wounded or shipwrecked person in a war zone, if such refusal causes the death of or health damage to the person, is punishable by 3 to 12 years’ imprisonment.
§ 101. Attack against combatant hors de combat
A person who kills, causes health damage to or tortures enemy combatants after they have laid down their arms and are placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds or another reason, shall be punished by 6 to 15 years’ imprisonment.
§ 102. Attacks against protected persons
A person who kills, tortures, causes health damage to or takes hostage a member of a medical unit with proper distinguishing marks, or any other person attending to sick or wounded persons, a minister of religion, a representative of an humanitarian organisation performing his or her duties in a war zone, a civil-defence worker, a member of a parliament, or a person accompanying such person, shall be punished by 6 to 15 years’ imprisonment.
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