GENERAL PART
Chapter Fourteen
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY
War Crimes
Article 102
Whoever orders or commits war crimes, especially if they are committed as part of an integral plan or policy, or as part of an extensive implementation of such crimes, namely the following :
4) other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts :
- intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities ;
- intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law ;
- intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (Act on notification of succession concerning the Council of Europe conventions, for which the USA government is the depositary, the Hague Conventions, and the intellectual property conventions (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 24/1992)), as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict ;
- intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives ;
- pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault ;
- committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy which means illegal detention of a woman who got pregnant by duress with the intention to affect ethnical structure of any population, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence, also constituting a grave breach of Article 3, common to the four Geneva Conventions ;
- conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the armed forces or groups, or using them to participate actively in hostilities ;
- ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand ;
- killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary ;
- declaring that no quarter will be given ;
- subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons ;
- destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict ;
shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than fifteen years.
Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC
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