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National implementation of international humanitarian law

Biannual update on national legislation and case law July–December 2009

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2010

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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 92 , Issue 877: Women , March 2010 , pp. 279 - 288
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2010

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1 Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Article 29 – Accomplices: “If several persons who, by participating in the perpetration of a criminal offence or by taking some other act by which a decisive contribution has been made to its perpetration, have jointly perpetrated a criminal offence, shall each be punished as prescribed for the criminal offence”.

2 Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Article 180 – Individual Criminal Responsibility: “(1) A person who planned, instigated, ordered, perpetrated or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of a criminal offence referred to in Article 171 (Genocide), 172 (Crimes against Humanity), 173 (War Crimes against Civilians), 174 (War Crimes against the Wounded and Sick), 175 (War Crimes against Prisoners of War), 177 (Unlawful Killing or Wounding of the Enemy), 178 (Marauding the Killed and Wounded at the Battlefield) and 179 (Violating the Laws and Practices of Warfare) of this Code, shall be personally responsible for the criminal offence. The official position of any accused person, whether as Head of State or Government or as a responsible Government official person, shall not relieve such person of criminal responsibility nor mitigate punishment”.

3 First and Second instance verdict in the case of Dragoje Paunovic, No. X-KR-05/16, 26 May 2006.

4 Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitutional Court, Prosecutor v. Abduladhim Maktouf, Decision on admissibility and merits, Case No. AP 1785/06, 30 March 2007.

5 Article 142 on war crimes against the civilian population reads:“Whoever in violation of rules of international law effective at the time of war, armed conflict or occupation, orders that civilian population be subject to killings, torture, inhuman treatment, biological experiments, immense suffering or violation of bodily integrity or health; dislocation or displacement or forcible conversion to another nationality or religion; forcible prostitution or rape; application of measures of intimidation and terror, taking hostages, imposing collective punishment, unlawful bringing in concentration camps and other illegal arrests and detention, deprivation of rights to fair and impartial trial; forcible service in the armed forces of enemy's army or in its intelligence service or administration; forcible labour, starvation of the population, property confiscation, pillaging, illegal and self-willed destruction and stealing on large scale of a property that is not justified by military needs, taking an illegal and disproportionate contribution or requisition, devaluation of domestic currency or the unlawful issuance of currency, or who commits one of the foregoing acts, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five years or by the death penalty”.