considered a weapon. Scissors, pocket knives and simple sticks are only considered weapons if
they are used to kill, injure, hit or threaten.
Article 166: Anyone who incites or causes incitement of armed troops, hires or causes hiring or
enrolls troops or provides them with arms or ammunition without the order or authorization of
the legitimate authority shall be punished with life imprisonment.
Article167: Anyone who, without right or legitimate reason, takes any military command or who,
against the order of the Government, retains such a command, shall be punished by life
imprisonment.
Commanders who keep their army or troop together after their dismissal or separation has been
ordered shall be punished with the same penalty.
Article168: Anyone who, being able to dispose public force, requires or orders, or causes to be
required or ordered the use of public force to prevent the execution of the laws on military
enrollment or mobilization, shall be punished by imprisonment for five to twenty years.
If this order is followed by actions, the convict is punished by life imprisonment.
Section 4: Crime of aggression
Article 169: The planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position
effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act
of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the
Charter of the United Nations commits a crime of aggression.
The crime of aggression is punishable by imprisonment or military detention for life.
The provisions of articles 143 and 144 shall apply.
Article 170: Constitutes a crime of aggression use of armed force by a State against the
sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State, or in any other
manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations. Whether or not a war is declared, the
following acts are acts of aggression:
1° The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the territory of another State, or any
military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any
annexation by the use of force of the territory of another State or part thereof;
2° Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of
any weapons by a State against the territory of another State;
3°The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State;
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