Tajikistan’s Manual of Internal Service of the Armed Forces (2001) states: “The military servicemen bear criminal responsibility for committing crimes according to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan.” 

Tajikistan’s Criminal Code (1998) provides for the punishment of: “illegal use of emblems and signs of the Red Cross and Red Crescent” (Article 333); “genocide” (Article 398); “biocide” (Article 399); “ecocide” (Article 400); “mercenarism” (Article 401); “attacks against persons and establishments under international protection” (Article 402); “wilful breaches of norms of international humanitarian law committed in [an international or internal] armed conflict” (Article 403); “wilful breaches of norms of international humanitarian law committed in international or internal armed conflict with the threat to health or causing bodily injury” (Article 404); and “other breaches of the norms of international humanitarian law” (Article 405).