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Persons or Medical Services.
(1) Whoever, in the circumstances defined at organizes, orders or
engages in:
(a) killings, torture, withholding medical care attention
required by their condition or inhuman treatment or other
acts entailing direct suffering or physical or mental injury
to wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons, or to members
of the medical or first aid service; or
(b) the destruction, rendering unserviceable appropriation of
supplies, installations, transport materials or stores
belonging to the medical or first aid services, in a manner
which is unlawful arbitrary or disproportionate to the
requirements of strict military necessity; or
(c) compelling persons engaged in medical, religious and
journalistic activities to perform acts or to carry out work
contrary to or to refrain from acts required by their
respective professional rules and ethics or other rules
designed for the benefit of the wounded, sick or civilian
population,
is punishable in accordance with Article 270
(2) For the purpose of sub-article (1):
(a) "wounded" and "sick" means persons, whether military or
civilian, who, because of trauma, disease or other physical
or mental disorder or disability, are in need of medical
assistance or care and who refrain from any act of
hostility. These terms also cover maternity cases, newly
born babies and other persons who may be in need of
immediate medical assistance or care, such as the infirm
or expectant mothers, and who refrain from any act of
hostility.
(b) "shipwrecked" means persons, whether military or civilian,
who are in peril at sea or in other waters or in the air as a
result of misfortune affecting them or the vessel or aircraft
carrying them and who refrain from any act of hostility.
