What many do not know and understand, is that it is also a little known and rarely investigated crime. Article 143 of our Criminal Code establishes: do perfidy: that, with time and development of conflict armed and with the purpose of damaging or attacking the opponent, simulate the status of protected person or improperly use signs of protection such as the Red Cross or Red Crescent societies, the flag of the United Nations or other intergovernmental bodies?, the white flag of Parliament or accountability, flags or uniforms of neutral countries or military or police detachments of United Nations or other signs of protection referred to in international treaties ratified by Colombia, shall be liable for that single behaviour in prison of three ( 3 ) eight ( 8 ) years and a fine of fifty ( 50 ) one hundred ( 100 ) statutory minimum salaries monthly. To same penalty incurred uniforms of the adversary who, with the same purpose, use do.? International law prohibits the use of the treachery in order to kill, injure or capture an adversary. Constitute perfidy acts that appeal to the good faith of the opponent, with the intention of deceiving him, making him believe that he has right to receive or obligation to grant protection which stipulate the rules of international law. The following acts are examples of perfidy: ) simulate the intention to negotiate, simulate a surrender; c ) simulate a disability by injury or disease; (d) ) simulate have the status or condition of civil or of non-combatant; e ) simulate having a status of protected through the use of signs, emblems or uniforms of the United Nations, neutral or other States not parties to the conflict. ( cf. GP I, arts. 37-39, 44 ).
