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Art. 147. Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be
those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or
property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman
treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or
serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful
confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the
forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the
rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of
hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified
by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.