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  1. war crimes

    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 killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.The formal concept of war crimes emerged from the codification of the customary international law that applied to warfare between sovereign states, such as the Lieber Code (1863) of the Union Army in the American Civil War and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 for international war. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the war-crime trials of the leaders of the Axis powers established the Nuremberg principles of law, such as that international criminal law defines what is a war crime. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions legally defined new war crimes and established that states could exercise universal jurisdiction over war criminals. In the late 20th century and early 21st century, international courts extrapolated and defined additional categories of war crimes applicable to a civil war.

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  1. War Crimes

    "War Crimes" is the 49th episode of The West Wing.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. War Crimes

    Criminal acts committed during, or in connection with, war, e.g., maltreatment of prisoners, willful killing of civilians, etc.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of war crimes in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of war crimes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of war crimes in a Sentence

  1. Philip Luther:

    Some Russian airstrikes appear to have directly attacked civilians or Civilian Objects by striking residential areas with no evident military target and even medical facilities, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. Such attacks may amount to war crimes, it is crucial that suspected violations are independently and impartially investigated.

  2. Dustin Lewis:

    With respect to the situation in Ukraine, the ICC prosecutor may investigate allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, the ICC is empowered to exercise jurisdiction only over natural persons. In other words, The ICC may institute proceedings only against individual humans. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the entities with which those humans may be affiliated, such as a government or a military.

  3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    This is one of Russia's most heinous war crimes.

  4. Sacha Sergio Llorenty Soliz:

    The United Kingdom supports the U.S. airstrike … because war crimes have consequences.

  5. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, the bodies of both civilians and military personnel are being found, in the Kherson region, the Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where it was able to enter.

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