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Article 8
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War crimes
1. 
The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or 
policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes. 
2. 
For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means: 
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts 
against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention: 
(i) 
Wilful killing; 
(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; 
(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; 
(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and 
carried out unlawfully and wantonly; 
(v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power; 
(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular 
trial; 

Paragraphs 2 (e) (xiii) to 2 (e) (xv) were amended by resolution RC/Res.5 of 11 June 2010 (adding paragraphs 2 (e) (xiii) to 2 (e) (xv)).


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(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; 
(viii) Taking of hostages. 
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within 
the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts: 
(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual 
civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; 
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military 
objectives; 
(iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles 
involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter 
of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian 
objects under the international law of armed conflict; 
(iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss 
of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe 
damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete 
and direct overall military advantage anticipated
(v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are 
undefended and which are not military objectives; 
(vi) Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means 
of defence, has surrendered at discretion; 
(vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform 
of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva 
Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury; 
(viii) The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population 
into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the 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; 



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