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WOUNDED AND SICK 53 <br /> CHAPTER VIII <br /> Execution of the Convention <br /> ART. 45. — Each Party to the conflict, acting through its Detailed <br /> commanders-in-chief, shall ensure the detailed execution of the execution. <br /> preceding Articles,andprovide for unforeseen cases,in conformityUnforeseen <br /> P g cases <br /> with the general principles of the present Convention. <br /> ART. 46. — Reprisals against the wounded, sick, personnel, Prohibition <br /> buildings or equipment protected by the Convention are of reprisals <br /> prohibited. <br /> ART. 47. — The High Contracting Parties undertake, in time of Dissemination <br /> peace as in time of war, to disseminate the text of the present of the <br /> Convention as widely as possible in their respective countries,and,in Convention <br /> particular, to include the study thereof in their programmes of <br /> military and, if possible, civil instruction, so that the principles <br /> thereof may become known to the entire population,in particular to <br /> the armed fighting forces,the medical personnel and the chaplains. <br /> ART.48. — The High Contracting Parties shall communicate to Translations. <br /> one another through the Swiss Federal Council and, during Rules of <br /> hostilities,through the Protecting Powers,the official translations of application <br /> the present Convention, as well as the laws and regulations which <br /> they may adopt to ensure the application thereof. <br /> CHAPTER IX <br /> Repression of Abuses and Infractions <br /> ART.49. —The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact any Penal <br /> legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for sanctions <br /> persons committing,or orderingto be committed,anyof thegrave <br /> g General <br /> breaches of the present Convention defined in the following Article. observations <br /> Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to <br /> search for persons alleged to have committed,or to have ordered to <br /> be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, <br /> regardless of their nationality,before its own courts.It may also,if it <br /> prefers,and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, <br />