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Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
Practice Relating to Rule 93. Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Violence
III. Military Manuals
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Military Manual (1988) provides for the protection of women against attacks on their honour, especially rape and forced prostitution. 
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, § 253.
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 ordered, assisted or otherwise was the direct executor of … abduction for prostitution, or raping” committed war crimes. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Criminal Offences against the Nation and State Act, 1945, Article 3(3).
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Penal Code (1976), as amended in 2001, provides that forced prostitution and rape are war crimes. 
Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of, Penal Code, 1976, as amended in 2001, Article 142(1).