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Adaptation of Criminal Legislation to ICC Statute

Chapter II
Crimes

Section II
War crimes

Article 14
Improper use of distinctive insignia or emblems

1. Anyone who, in the context of an international armed conflict or a non-international armed conflict, improperly uses, with perfidious intent, a flag of truce, a national flag, the military insignia or uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, or the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, thereby causing death or serious injury, shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of 10 to 25 years.

2. Anyone who, in the context of an international armed conflict or a non-international armed conflict, commits the acts described in the preceding paragraph, but without perfidious intent, shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of 1 to 5 years.

Keywords

Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC



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