Burundi
Practice Relating to Rule 72. Poison and Poisoned Weapons
Burundi’s Regulations on International Humanitarian Law (2007) states: “It is prohibited to use poison or poisonous weapons because these weapons inevitably lead to death, or may cause superfluous injuries which generally lead to death.”
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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q) using poison or poisoned weapons … and all analogous liquids, materials or weaponry.
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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17°. Employing poison or poisoned weapons.