As per The Hague Conventions, punishable violations under the War Crimes Act include employing poison or poisoned weapons; killing or severely wounding individuals; killing or wounding an enemy who has surrendered; aggressive assaults (“take no prisoners”); employing arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering; destroying or seizing the enemy’s property, unless demanded by the necessities of war; declaring abolished, suspended, or inadmissible in a court of law the rights of the nationals of the hostile part, to attack or bombard undefended towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings; to attack buildings of religion, art, science, charitable purposes, historical monuments, hospitals, and places of refuge, provided they are not being used for military purposes; and pillaging of a town.