Related Rule
Burundi
Practice Relating to Rule 71. Weapons That Are by Nature Indiscriminate
Burundi’s Regulations on International Humanitarian Law (2007) states: “Any weapons which have indiscriminate effects are prohibited.”
Burundi, Règlement n° 98 sur le droit international humanitaire, Ministère de la Défense Nationale et des Anciens Combattants, Projet “Moralisation” (BDI/B-05), August 2007, Part I, p. 15; see also Part I bis, p. 10.
Burundi’s Law on Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes (2003) states:
[The following are] considered as war crimes:
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B. Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflicts, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
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s) employing weapons, projectiles, material and methods of combat which are … inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of combat are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition.
Burundi, Law on Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes, 2003, Article 4(B)(s).
Burundi’s Penal Code (2009) states:
“War crimes” means crimes which are committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes, in particular:
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2. … [S]erious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
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20°. Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are … inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition.
Burundi, Penal Code, 2009, Article 198(2)(2°).
