Bulgaria

Criminal Code

BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

Chapter Fourteen - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Section II - Crimes Against the Laws and Customs of Waging War

Article 412

A person who in violation of the rules of international law for waging war:

a) perpetrates or orders with regard to the civil population murders, tortures, inhuman treatment, including biological experiments to be perpetrated, causes or orders grave sufferings, mutilation or other serious impairments of health to be inflicted;

b) takes or orders hostages to be taken;

c) carries out or orders unlawful deportations, persecutions or detentions to be effected;

d) compels a civilian to serve in the armed forces of an enemy state;

e) deprives a civilian of his right to be tried by a regular court and under a regular procedure;

f) unlawfully and arbitrarily perpetrates or orders the perpetration of destruction or appropriations of property on a large scale,

shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for a term of from five up to twenty years or by life imprisonment without substitution.

Keywords

Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
National penalties - war crimes
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - life imprisonment



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