Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia - Criminal Code 1996 (2009) EN

SPECIAL PART

34. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Use of unallowed combat means

Article 407

(1) A person who during a war or an armed conflict orders the use poisons or poisonous weapons, poisonous gases, gasses for suffocation or other type of gases or similar liquids, material or devices, personal mines, bullets that are easily spread in the human body, as well as bullets with hard capsule that does not cover the whole bullet or is bored, weapons, projectiles, material or other way of war that according to their nature cause unnecessary injuries or suffer or which have characteristics that are against the international war law, do not make difference between military and civil targets etc. of combat means or a manner of combat which are prohibited by the rules of international law, or uses them himself, shall be punished with imprisonment of at least one year.

Macedonia - Criminal Code 1996 (2018) EN

Use of unalloyed combat means Article 407

(1) A person who during a war or an armed conflict orders the use of toxic or toxic weapons,

toxic gas causing choking or any other types of gas or similar liquids, materials or devices, mines used against infantry regiments, bullets that easily spread in the human body, bullets of hard capsules that does not cover the entire grain or it is punctured, arms, missiles, materials or any other manner used in military action, and by using them, unnecessary wounds or torment is inflicted, or whose characteristics are against international military law, not differentiating between military and civil targets, and other, combat means or a manner of combat which are prohibited by the rules of international law, or uses them himself, shall be punished with imprisonment of at least one year.

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:

(xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;