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 433
Lawlessness in the Wartime

(1) Any person who commits an act that is deemed to be a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of twelve to twenty-five or to life imprisonment.

(2) The offender shall be liable to life imprisonment if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1,

a) and causes grievous bodily harm or death to several persons or other particularly serious consequence through its commission, or
b) in retaliation.

Keywords

War crimes
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Biological experiments - IAC
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling nationals of hostile party to take part in operations of war against their own country - IAC
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Denial of quarter - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Grave breaches - IAC
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
Inhuman treatment - IAC
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 - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Large-scale commission - war crimes
Medical experiments - IAC
Mutilation - IAC
Part of plan or policy - war crimes
Scientific experiments - IAC
Taking of hostages - IAC
Torture - IAC
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Violations of laws and customs - IAC
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfulness - war crimes
Awareness of conflict - war crimes
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC



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