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The International Crimes Act, 2008
experiments;
(iii) wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or
health;
(iv) extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not
justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and
wantonly;
(v) compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to
serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
(vi) wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person
of the rights of fair and regular trial;
(vii) unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
(viii) taking of hostages.
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in
international armed conflict, 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 civilian objects, that is,
objects which are not military objectives;
(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 launching an attack in the knowledge that such
attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians
or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and
severe damage to the natural environment which would be
clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall
military advantage anticipated;
(v) attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns,
villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and
which are not military objectives;
(vi) killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his
arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered
at discretion;
(vii) making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the
military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United
Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva
Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury;
(viii) the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power
of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it
occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the
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