A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally...
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Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the...
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numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents...
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World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and Crimes against humanity ever committed in an Armed conflict mostly against civilians and POWs. Most...
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start of the Israel–Hamas war on 7 October 2023, the UN Human Rights Council has identified "clear evidence" of war crimes by both Hamas and the Israel...
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summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted...
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Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official...
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Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military...
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Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals...
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Hamas war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, which the Islamist Nationalist organization...
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and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace...
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Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights...
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From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including...
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During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of...
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condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars. The most notable of these...
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Turkish war crimes are violations of international criminal law (including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide) which the official...
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During World War II, the German Wehrmacht (combined armed forces - Heer, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe) committed systematic war crimes, including massacres...
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British war crimes are acts committed by the armed forces of the United Kingdom that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions...
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beginning of the Israel–Hamas war in 2023, the Israeli military and authorities have been charged with committing war crimes, such as indiscriminate attacks...
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War crimes in Manchukuo were committed during the rule of the Empire of Japan in northeast China, either directly, or through its puppet state of Manchukuo...
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potential war crimes committed by both sides. The International Criminal Court confirmed that its mandate to investigate alleged war crimes committed...
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all American prisoners of war in Korea died as a result of war crimes". Although the Chinese rarely executed prisoners of war like their North Korean counterparts...
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War crimes in Afghanistan covers the period of conflict from 1979 to the present. Starting with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, 40 years of...
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the War Crimes Act War Crimes Act 1991 of the United Kingdom War Crimes Act of 1996 of the United States Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act of...
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Massacre, to ascertain the veracity of emerging claims of US war crimes. Of the war crimes reported to military authorities, sworn statements by witnesses...
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"Yemen: Attack on Refugee Boat Likely War Crime". Human Rights Watch. 26 March 2017. "The UN's Timid Responses to War Crimes Against Children". Human Rights...
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World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This...
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Italian war crimes have mainly been associated with the Kingdom of Italy from the Italo-Turkish War then to Pacification of Libya, the Second Italo-Ethiopian...
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The Khabarovsk war crimes trials were the Soviet hearings of twelve Japanese Kwantung Army officers and medical staff charged with the manufacture and...
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All sides of the Tigray War have been repeatedly accused of committing war crimes since it began in November 2020. In particular, the Ethiopian federal...
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