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Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
Practice Relating to Rule 53. Starvation as a Method of Warfare
Section A. General
III. Military Manuals
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Military Manual (1988) prohibits the starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Propisi o Primeri Pravila Medjunarodnog Ratnog Prava u Oruzanim Snagama SFRJ, PrU-2, Savezni Sekretarijat za Narodnu Odbranu (Pravna Uprava), 1988, § 107.
IV. National Legislation
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Criminal Offences against the Nation and State Act (1945) considers that, during war or enemy occupation, “any person who caused the intentional starvation of the population” committed a war crime. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Criminal Offences against the Nation and State Act, 1945, Article 3(3).
Under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Penal Code (1976), as amended in 2001, “starvation of the population” is a war crime against the civilian population. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Penal Code, 1976, as amended in 2001, Article 142(1).