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Law to prosecute and punish war criminals and profiteers (excerpts)

- Romania -

Law No. 50

Art. I. Criminals of war are those who have:

    a) treated inhumanely, as against international law, prisoners and hostages of war;

    b) ordered or committed acts of cruelty in regard to the population of the territory affected by war;

    c) ordered or initiated the setting up of ghettos, camps and/or the deportation of political or racial adversaries;

    d) ordered or executed collective or individual repression and/or ordered the transportation of persons to be exterminated or ordered forced labour with the purpose of extermination;

    e) within their positions as commanders, directors, supervisors, guards of prisons or camps for prisoners, including whose interned, deported, imprisoned for political purposes, or who have been convicted and are doing forced labour, treated inhumanely those under their supervision;

    f) in their position as police, legal or interviewing officers in order to support the policy of war have persecuted and convicted persons for the reason of being against the war or of the dictatorship and those who in the position of persecutors, military and civilian judges maintained the terror and violence;

    g) left their national territory and have employed themselves in the service of Hitlerist Germany and attacked verbally, in writing or in any other way the homeland.

[...]

Art. III For the facts committed as listed in Art. I the following punishments can be pronounced:

    a) capital punishment

    b) forced labour for life

    c) force labour for 6-10 years

    d) imprisonment for 3-15 years

[...]

[Source: Monitorul Oficial, No. 17, p. 415, Bucharest, 21 January 1945. By way of: International Committee of the Red Cross.]

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