War Crimes
War crimes refer to crimes committed during times of war against military personnel or civilians that go against internationally accepted codes of behavior. Genocide, rape, and torture of prisoners of war are examples of war crimes.
In 1949 the four Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims were ratified by 125 nations. This led directly to the most famous tribunals for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, in which officials of the defeated Nazi regime faced international justice. Adolf Hitler's assistant, Martin Bormann, who was directly…>> (read more)
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War Crimes in the News
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Military commissions at Guantanamo are scheduled to ramp up with today's trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S.…>> (read more)
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Charles Taylor, president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, is on trial for war crimes before a U.N. special court sitting in The Hague. Some…>> (read more)
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When documentary filmmaker Lisa Jackson first learned of the horrific rapes that were part of the long war in the Congo, it wasn't through…>> (read more)
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