Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia - Criminal Code 1996 (2009) EN

SPECIAL PART

34. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

War crimes against the civil population

Article 404

(3) A person who, by violating the rules of international law, as an occupator, during a war, an armed conflict or an occupation, orders or executes a resettlement or deportation of the whole or of parts of the civil population to the occupied territory.

Macedonia - Criminal Code 1996 (2018) EN

''War crimes against the civil population, Article 404''

3) A person who, by violating the rules of international law, as a conqueror, during a war,
an armed conflict or an occupation, orders or executes a resettlement or deportation of the
all or parts of the civil population to the occupied territory or shall move parts of the its
own civilians to the occupied territory, shall be punished with imprisonment of at
least five years.

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:

(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:

(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;