a
PI
the population of the occupied territory within or outside this
territory;
(18) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in
particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;
(19) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced
prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any
other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach
of the Geneva Conventions or a serious violation of common
Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions;
(20) Utihzing the presence of a civihan or other protected
person to render certain poimts, areas or military forces
immune from military operations;
(21) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a
method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable
to their survival, including willfully umpeding rehef supplies
as provided for under the Geneva Conventions and their
Additional Protocols:
(22) In an international armed conflict, compelling the
nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations
of wardirected against their own country, even if they were
in the belhgerent’s service before the commencement of the
war;
(28) In an international armed conflict, declaring
abolished, suspended or inadmissible mm a court of law the
rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
(24) Committing any of the following acts:
(i) Consenpting, enlisting or recruiting children under
the age of fifteen (15) years into the national armed forces;
(ii) Conseripting, enlisting or recruiting children under
12
(25) Employing means of warfare which are prohibited
under international law, such as:
(1) Poison or poisoned weapons;
(i) Asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all
analogous liquids, materials or devices;
(ii) Bullets which expand orflatten easily in the human
body, such as bullets with hard envelopes which do not entirely
cover the core or are pierced with incisions; and
(iv) Weapons, projectiles and material and methods of
warfare which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury
or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently
indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed
conflict.
Any person found guilty of committing any of the acts
specified herein shall suffer the penalty provided under
Section 7 of this Act.
SEC. 5. Genocide. — (a) For the purpose of this Act,
“senocide” means any of the following acts with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial,
religious, social or any other similar stable and permanent
group as such:
(1) Killing members of the group;
(2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group;
(3) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions oflife
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part;
the age of eighteen (18) years into an armed force or group
(4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
the group; and
Gii) Using children under the age of eighteen (18) years
(5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group.
other than the national armed forces; and
to participate actively in hostilities; and