Definitions for war crime
war crime

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1. war crimenoun

   a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war

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1. war crimenoun

   A punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.

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1. War crime

   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 crime

   A war crime is a serious violation of the laws and customs of war that are applicable in armed conflicts, which gives rise to individual criminal responsibility. These offenses may include, but are not limited to, maltreatment or killing of prisoners of war or civilians, unnecessary devastation, the taking of hostages, torture, genocide, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian or enemy combatant. War crimes are considered a grave breach of international law.

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1. War crime

   A war crime is a serious violation of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of war crimes include "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps," "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war," the killing of prisoners, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian necessity." Similar concepts, such as perfidy, have existed for many centuries as customs between civilized countries, but these customs were first codified as international law in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The modern concept of a war crime was further developed under the auspices of the Nuremberg Trials based on the definition in the London Charter that was published on August 8, 1945. Along with war crimes the charter also defined crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, which are often committed during wars and in concert with war crimes. Article 22 of The Hague IV states that "The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited" and over the last century many other treaties have introduced positive laws that place constraints on belligerents. Some of the provisions, such as those in The Hague, the Geneva, and Genocide Conventions, are considered to be part of customary international law, and are binding on all. Others are only binding on individuals if the belligerent power to which they belong is a party to the treaty which introduced the constraint.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of war crime in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of war crime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of war crime in a Sentence

1. Rachel Egan:

   Going back to 1948, times were very different, so, if he was involved in a war crime, or something else that's horrific, maybe we can unpack the reasons and try and understand as to why he did what he did.

2. Iryna Marchuk:

   The health care infrastructure in Ukraine has been deliberately targeted by Russian forces, which is absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime falling within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

3. Widney Brown:

   Each of these assaults constitutes a war crime.

4. Myron Tabora:

   But what is a war crime with what the Russians did? i heard about Polish people being killed in Ukraine, but Poles were killing Ukrainians just the same.

5. Mohammad Shtayyeh:

   The cabinet condemns this grave aggression. This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands — a war crime and a crime against humanity.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=war crime
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/War_Crime
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crime
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=war crime