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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;
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;
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
Declaring that no quarter will be given;
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 the subject of a
comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment
in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123 of the Roma
Statute;
Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading
treatment;
Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in
article 138-6° 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;
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;
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