Definitions for war criminal
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1. war criminalnoun

   an offender who violates international law during times of war

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1. war criminalnoun

   a person guilty of a war crime

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1. war criminal

   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 criminal

   A war criminal is an individual or group who commits unlawful acts during a war or conflict, which violate the laws or customs of warfare. This includes crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, genocide, and other serious mistreatment of civilians, prisoners of war, or harm to non-combatants during a conflict. These acts are typically prosecuted under international law.

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   The numerical value of war criminal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of war criminal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of war criminal in a Sentence

1. Bernie Sanders:

   Syria's Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against the men, women and children of his country makes him a war criminal.

2. Pete Buttigieg:

   The reason that we can stand up tall and say that's not true, that having served honorably in the military, couldn't be more different than being a war criminal is because if we ever did anything that was wrong the United States under the Uniform Code of Military Justice would have held us accountable, and so when the President joins in with this idea, that it's just natural, that if you serve in conflict, that you're going to wind up murdering somebody, he is eroding the integrity of the military, and insulting the Constitution.

3. Saeb Erekat:

   It is a sad day in history when the leader of the Israeli government hates his neighbor so much that he is willing to absolve the most notorious war criminal in history, Adolf Hitler, of the murder of six million Jews, benzion Netanyahu should stop using this human tragedy to score points for Benzion Netanyahu political end.

4. Kevin Cramer:

   I don't know if he has dirt on President Joe Biden. If he does, he should reveal it, but he is a war criminal so I don't expect that he's right now sitting around thinking about ways that he can reveal other information.

5. 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.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/War_Criminal
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Criminal
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