diff --git a/verdrag/statuut-van-rome-inzake-het-internationaal-strafhof/BWBV0001489/README.md b/verdrag/statuut-van-rome-inzake-het-internationaal-strafhof/BWBV0001489/README.md index c16ee494118..89d544bc5e6 100644 --- a/verdrag/statuut-van-rome-inzake-het-internationaal-strafhof/BWBV0001489/README.md +++ b/verdrag/statuut-van-rome-inzake-het-internationaal-strafhof/BWBV0001489/README.md @@ -138,7 +138,10 @@ b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international (xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations; (xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; (xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; -(xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities. +(xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities; +(xxvii) Employing weapons, which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins, whatever their origin or method of production; +(xxviii) Employing weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays; +(xxix) Employing laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices. c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed *hors de combat* by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause: (i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; @@ -162,7 +165,10 @@ e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflict (xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict; (xiii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons; (xiv) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices; -(xv) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions. +(xv) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions; +(xvi) Employing weapons, which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins, whatever their origin or method of production; +(xvii) Employing weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays; +(xviii) Employing laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices. f) Paragraph 2 e) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It applies to armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups. **3.** Nothing in paragraph 2 c) and e) shall affect the responsibility of a Government to maintain or re-establish law and order in the State or to defend the unity and territorial integrity of the State, by all legitimate means.