...the 7. Article 49 Geneva I and Article 50 Genera It. The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions...present Convention defined In the following Article. Emch Contracting Party shall be under obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or...

...an impartial organisation the duties incumbent on the Protecting Powers (Art. 10/10/10/11)." 4. The Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary...persons committing or ordering to be committed, any grave breaches of the Conventions (Art. 49/50/129/146 and Art. 50/51/130/147)." The Hungarian delegate...

...establish the obligation of the United States to apprehend and punish those committing war crimes: Sect. 506. Suppression of War Crimes a. Geneva Conventions...to search for persons alleged to have committed or ordering to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality,...

...required solely by imperative military necessity. Article 129 requires that the parties to the convention undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide...to be committed any of the "grave breaches" of the convention. Article 130 defines "grave breaches" as those involving any of the following acts committed...

...1970. t The Geneva Conventions ot 1949 even h avc a common provision obliging Parties to the treaties "to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective...penal sanctions" for persons committing or ordering "grave breaches." mcnt and those that, like bombs, are designed to strike human or societal targets,...

...establish the obligation of the United States to apprehend and punish those committing war crimes: Sect. 506. Suppression of War Crimes a. Geneva Conventions...any of the grave breaches of the present Convention denned in the following Article. Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search...

...146-149 of the Fourth), were nevertheless a great step forward. Under the first of the four articles, the Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary...ordering to be committed, any of the "grave breaches" defined in the Conventions. The specification of a range of grave breaches is an original aspect of...

...Conventions opens with an Article (49/50/129/149) which embodies the undertaking of the contracting States "to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective...present Convention defined in the following Article". The great importance which the Dutch delegation attached to this provision is evident from a passage...

...Conventions established clearer and more radical rules. The four Conventions first of all require States 6 ° "to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective...committed, any of the grave breaches of the present Convention".61 Subsequently, however, they require the tracing and prosecution of persons "alleged...

...breaches." With respect to these grave breaches, each of the common articles requires the parties (1) "to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective...of the grave breaches of the present Convention"; (2) "to search for persons alleged to have committed . . . such grave breaches"; and (3) "to bring...