English
Whoever, in time of war, armed conflict or occupation organizes,
orders or engages in, against the civilian population and in
violation of the rules of pubic international law and of
international humanitarian conventions:
(a) killings, torture or inhuman treatment, biological experiments, or
arty other involving dire suffering or bodily harm, or to mental or
physical health; or
(b) wilful reduction to starvation, destitution or general ruination
through the depreciation counterfeiting or systematic
debasement of currency; or
(c) the compulsory movement or dispersion of population, its
systematic deportation, transfer detention in concentration
camps or forced labour camps; or
(d) forcible enlistment in the enemy's defence forces, intelligence
services or administration; or
(e) denationalization or forcible religious conversion; or
(f) compulsion to acts of prostitution, debauchery or rape; or
(g) measures of intimidation or terror, the taking of hostages or the
imposition of collective punishments or reprisals; or
(h) the confiscation of estates, the destruction or appropriation of
property, the imposition of unlawful or arbitrary taxes or levies,
or of taxes or levies disproportionate to the requirements or strict
military necessity; or
(i) the confiscation, destruction, removal, rendering useless or
appropriation of property such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas
for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water
installations and supplies and irrigation works, health centres,
schools; or
(j) the destruction, removal, attack, rendering useless or
appropriation of the historical monuments, works of art, or
places of worship or using them in support of military effort; or
(k) withholding the provision of clothing, bedding, means of shelter,
medical supplies and other supplies essential to the survival of
the civilian population of the occupied territory; or
(l) attacking, displacing, causing to disappear or mistreating
persons who, before the beginning of hostilities, were considered
as stateless persons or refugees under the relevant international
instruments, or under the national legislation of the State of
refuge or State of residence; or
(m) recruiting children who have not attained the age of eighteen
years as members of defence forces to take part in armed
conflict; or
(n) using any means or method of combat against the natural
environment to cause widespread, long term and severe damage
and thereby to prejudice the health or survival of the population;
or
(o) attacking dams, dykes, and nuclear electrical generating
stations, if their attack causes the release of dangerous forces
and consequent
severe losses among the civilian population; or
(p) passing of sentences and carrying out of executions without
previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted Court
which affords ail the judicial guarantees,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment from five years to twenty-
five years, or, in more serious cases, with life imprisonment or
death.
