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China
Practice Relating to Rule 50. Destruction and Seizure of Property of an Adversary
China’s Law Governing the Trial of War Criminals (1946) provides that “indiscriminate destruction of property” constitutes a war crime.
China, Law Governing the Trial of War Criminals, 1946, Article 3(27).
According to the Report on the Practice of China, in the context of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Chinese population suffered greatly from the Japanese policy of devastation. The Japanese armed forces “destroyed the materials …, set houses on fire, destroyed the farming facilities, took away [livestock], burned the grain and damaged green crops in the fields”.
Report on the Practice of China, 1997, Chapter 4.1, referring to Deng Xiaoping, The Economic Construction of the Area of Taihang Mountain, 2 July 1943, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Vol. I, The People’s Press, p. 78.
