Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
(e)
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:
(i)
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such
or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
(ii)
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;
(iii)
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, 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 7, paragraph 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 or is pierced with incisions.
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