4.-(1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether within or without Malawi commits or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of any such grave breach of any of the Conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those Conventions, that is to say-

(a) article 50 of the Convention set out in the First Schedule to this Act;
(b) article 51 of the Convention set out in the Second Schedule to this Act;
(c) article 130 of the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act;
(d) article 147 of the Convention set out in the Fourth Fourth

shall without prejudice to his liability under any other written law be guilty of an offence and-

(i) in the case of a grave breach causing or resulting in or contributing to the death of the person protected by the Convention in question, shall be liable to imprison­ ment for life;
(ii) in the case of any other grave breach, shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

21. Principal offenders

(1) When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in committing the offence and to be guilty of the offence, and may be charged with actually committing it, that is to say—

(b) every person who does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding another person to commit the offence;
(c) every person who aids or abets another person to commit the offence;