Article 275 — Dereliction of Duty Towards the Enemy.

Whoever, in time of war and contrary to public international law and humanitarian conventions: (a) kills or wounds an enemy who has surrendered or laid down his arms, or who for any other reason is incapable of defending, or has ceased to defend, himself; or (b) mutilates a dead person; or (c) lays hands on or does violence to a wounded, sick or dead enemy on the field of battle, with intent to rob or plunder him; or (d) orders one of the above acts, is punishable with rigorous imprisonment, or, in cases of exceptional gravity, with life imprisonment or death.