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 Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of war criminal in a Sentence

1. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   This includes making outlandish and offensive analogies suggesting that somehow Anthony Fauci is akin to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known for Anthony Fauci gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

2. Barham Salih:

   Look, obviously a lot of years to reflect on. Definitely, from my perspective from Iraq, from Baghdad, and I would daresay that reflecting the view of the majority of Iraqis, the decision to take on Saddam Hussein and remove him from power was the right decision; it was the moral decision. The world is a better place without Saddam Hussein. He was a war criminal. He was engaged in crimes against humanity, genocide, you name it. But no doubt: a lot of problems in the transition.

3. Jason Killmeyer:

   President Biden is allowing a war criminal [Putin] to serve as an intermediary for the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, that alone should be enough for anyone to recognize just how dangerous this deal is.

4. Joe Biden:

   He’s a war criminal.

5. Michael McCaul:

   We’re not here as Republicans or Democrats, but really as Americans supporting our NATO Ally, Poland, and the people of Ukraine, we stand with you. We just had a video conference with President Zelenskyy, one of the most courageous individuals I’ve ever seen. Very inspiring. And the chairman’s right:Mr. Putin is a war criminal, he’s going to lose in the end, and we want to work with you and the administration to … bring him to justice and stop the bloodshed. And again, I just want to thank Poland and the people of Ukraine.We are with you, and we will do everything we can to stop this.

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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