1° Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the
following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant
Geneva Convention:
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Willfully killing;
Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
Willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity
and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile
Power;
Willfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and
regular;
Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
Taking of hostages.
2° 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:
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against
individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not
military objectives;
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;
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;
Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings
which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer
means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;
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;
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
population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
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