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Practice Relating to Rule 89. Violence to Life
III. Military Manuals
Hungary’s Military Manual (1992) states that “wilful killing” is a grave breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and a war crime. 
Hungary, A Hadijog, Jegyzet a Katonai, Föiskolák Hallgatói Részére, Magyar Honvédség Szolnoki Repülötiszti Föiskola, 1992, p. 90.
IV. National Legislation
Under Hungary’s Criminal Code (1978), as amended in 1998, the killing of a member of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as a part of a genocide campaign, constitutes a “crime against the freedom of peoples”. 
Hungary, Criminal Code, 1978, as amended in 1998, Section 155(1)(a).