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
* Taro Aso, the outgoing Japanese prime minister, has done something remarkable. In a ceremony marking the end of World War II, he said, "Our country inflicted tremendous damage…>> (read more)
Quebec Superior Court judge Andre Denis made history on May 22, 2009, when he convicted Desire Munyaneza of seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Munyaneza, he…>> (read more)
It is becoming a Friday ritual--the weekly announcement of the embarrassing news that yet another Bush national-security policy labeled a war crime or a rule-of-law violation by the Obama…>> (read more)
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