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CRIMINAL CODE
installations, material, units or vehicles involved
in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping
mission in accordance with the Charter of the
United Nations, as long as they are entitled to
the protection given to civilians or civilian
objects under the international law of armed
conflict;
(iv) 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;
(v) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by
assault;
(vi) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced
prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in
article 54C(2)(f), enforced sterilization, and any
other form of sexual violence also constituting a
serious violation of article 3 common to the four
Geneva Conventions;
(vii) conscripting or enlisting children under the age
of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or
using them to participate actively in hostilities;
(viii) 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;
(ix) killing or wounding treacherously a combatant
adversary;
(x) declaring that no quarter will be given;
(xi) subjecting persons who are in the power of
another party to the conflict 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;
(xii) destroying or seizing the property of an
adversary unless such destruction or seizure be
imperatively demanded by the necessities of the
conflict;
(xiii) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
(xiv) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other
gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or
devices;
(xv) 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