Wilful killing

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LEGAL SOURCEs

as a grave breach

GCI, 50 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

GCII, 51 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

GCIII, 130

GCIV, 147

PI, 85/2

CASES

ICTY, The Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadzic
United States, Jurisprudence Related to the Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole
UN/Colombia, Human Rights Committee Clarifications and Concluding Observations (2016)
ECCC, Detention Sites in Cambodia
Colombia, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Extrajudicial Executions in Casanare