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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.

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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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Numerology

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. Lindsey Graham:

   You see war crimes being committed in front of you on television every day, and the Biden administration looks at Putin as a partner for climate change and an Iran dealmaker rather than a war criminal, biden’s more afraid of Putin losing than he is excited about Ukraine winning.

2. Sherif Elsayed-Ali:

   The shortfall in the number of resettlement places for refugees offered by the international community is truly shocking, the complete absence of resettlement pledges from the Gulf is particularly shameful. Linguistic and religious ties should place the Gulf states at the forefront of those offering safe shelter to refugees fleeing persecution and war crimes in Syria.

3. Leonard Rubenstein:

   The pattern of indiscriminate attacks amounts to a war crime just as a deliberate attack is, so if these are confirmed after investigation – and of course, we don't have those investigations yet – they could be war crimes.

4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   Russia is…pursuing a consistent criminal policy of deporting our people. [It] forcibly deports both adults and children, this is one of Russia's most heinous war crimes.

5. Jennifer Robinson:

   We are talking about collateral murder, evidence of war crimes, they are a remarkable resource for those of us seeking to hold governments to account for abuses.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=war crimes