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violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel
treatment and torture;
committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and
degrading treatment;
taking hostages;
the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial
guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable;
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;