Niger’s Penal Code (1962), as amended in 2003, under a chapter entitled “Crimes against humanity and war crimes” in which it provides for the punishment of a list of offences such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in the meaning of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and both the 1977 Additional Protocols I and II, states: “The prosecution with regard to the crimes set out under this chapter, as well as the penalties pronounced, are not subject to statutes of limitation.”