Slovakia

Criminal Code

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER TWELVE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PEACE, AGAINST HUMANITY, CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF TERRORISM, EXTREMISM AND WAR CRIMES

Title Two
War Crimes

Section 432
Persecution of Civilians

(1) Any person who, in the wartime, performs inhuman acts on the grounds of national, racial or ethnic discrimination, or who terrorises helpless civilian population by violence or the threat of its use, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of four to ten years.

(2) The same sentence as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be imposed on any person, who, at the time referred to in paragraph 1,

a) destroys or seriously damages the source of elementary necessities of life of the civilian population in an occupied territory or buffer zone, or who wilfully refuses to provide the population with the assistance they need for their survival,

Keywords

Crimes against humanity



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