| Legal qualification under the ICC’s Rome Statute | No. of incidents |
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, and hospitals [ Article 8: 2 (b) ix ] |
504 |
Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended [ Article 8: 2 (b) v)] |
5 |
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects [ Article 8: 2 (b) ii ] |
1363 |
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment [ Article 8: 2 (b) iv ] |
3943 |
Extensive destruction and appropriation of property [ Article 8: 2 (a) iv ] |
96 |
Killing committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population [ Article 7: 1 (a) “Murder” or Article 8: 2 (a) i “Wilful killing” ] |
43 |
Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health [ Article 8: 2 (a) iii ]
|
10 |
Enforced disappearance of persons [ Article 7: 1 i ] |
20 |
Torture or inhuman treatment of civilians and military personnel [[ Article 7: 1 (f) or Article 8: 2 (a) ii ] |
18 |
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance or a humanitarian corridor[ Article 8: 2 (b) iii ] |
4 |
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated [ Article 8: 2 (b) iv ] |
246 |
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental injury to civilians [ Article 8: 2 (b) iv ] |
664 |
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment [ Article 8: 2 (b) iv ] |
135 |
Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault [ Article 8: 2 (b) xvi ] |
12 |
Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition: the BM-30 “Smerch”, TOS-1 “Buratino”, and other systems, cluster munitions and phosphorus bombs [ Article 8: 2 (b) xx ] |
37 |
Sexual violence (as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f) ) [ Article 8: 2 (b) xxii ] |
3 |
Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person as a human shield to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operation [ Article 8: 2 (b) xxiii ] |
4 |
Employing poison or poisoned weapons, including phosphorus bombs [ Article 8: 2 (b) xvii ] or [ Article 8: 2 (b) xviii ] |
1 |
Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of civilians or military personnel [ Article 7: 1 (e) ] |
12 |
Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment of either civilians or military personnel [ Article 8: 2 (b) xxi ] |
1 |
Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, or which are inherently indiscriminate [ Article 8: 2 (b) xx ] |
85 |