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The International Crimes Act, 2008
population of the occupied territory within or outside this
territory;
(ix) 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;
(x) 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;
(xi) killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to
the hostile nation or army;
(xii) declaring that no quarter will be given;
(xiii) destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such
destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the
necessities of war;
(xiv) declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of
law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
(xv) 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;
(xvi) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
(xvii) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
(xviii) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all
analogous liquids, materials or devices;
(xix) 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;
(xx) 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;
(xxi) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular
humiliating and degrading treatment;
(xxii) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced
pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced
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