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destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such destruction or seizure be
imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;
declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and
actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war
directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent's service
before the commencement of the war;
pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
employing poison or poisoned weapons;
employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids,
materials or devices;
employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as
bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced
with incisions;
employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of
a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are
inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict,
provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are
fully prohibited;
committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and
degrading treatment;
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 or to perform other grave breaches of
international law, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence, also
constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;
utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain
points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;
use of cultural property under extended protection or their immediate
surroundings to support military actions;
intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and
transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva
Conventions;
intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them
of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies
as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national
armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities;
3) in the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, which, however,
does not constitute internal disturbance and tensions like riots, individual and
occasional acts of violence and other similar acts, serious violations of Article 3
common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the
following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities,
including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed
hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause: