The Geneva Conventions and Georgian Criminal Law
The Geneva Conventions are the central instrument of international humanitarian law, and their protection at the national level occurs through criminal implementation. The Criminal Code of Georgia contains the corresponding norms: genocide, crimes against humanity, and the deliberate violation of the norms of international humanitarian law during armed conflict. These compositions form the core through which international legal norms are applied in a national court.
Genocide is defined as an act committed in the execution of an agreed plan to destroy, wholly or in part, a group united by national, ethnic, racial, religious or any other sign — through murder, serious injury to health, deliberate creation of harsh living conditions, forcible reduction of births, or forcible transfer of children. The sanction — imprisonment from twelve to twenty years or life.