war crime
English
Noun
war crime (plural war crimes)
- (law) A punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.
- 2015 August 28, Mariam M Kurtz; Lester R. Kurtz, Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 volumes]: Topography, Resistance, and Hope, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 193:
- To deal with war crime such as rape a mobile court system was [employed...]
- 2018 November 22, André Nollkaemper; August Reinisch; Ralph Janik; Florentina Simlinger, International Law in Domestic Courts: A Casebook, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 501:
- To be sure, there is a strong argument that aiding and abetting a recognized international-law war crime such as terrorism is itself an international-law war crime. And there are other similar war crimes.
- 2020 June 21, Drachinifel, The Drydock - Episode 099, archived from the original on 8 August 2022, retrieved 21 October 2022, 6:33 from the start:
- The two primary ones are that by the time anyone bothered to codify rules of war, lighthouses went on the list of "do not attack" pretty much immediately, and so it would be a rather pointless war crime to commit; the second reason is related to why they went on the list of "do not attack" targets very quickly, and that is that lighthouses are completely nondiscriminatory as to who they alert to what's going on in terms of danger and coastlines and hidden rocks and such […]
- 2022 March 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today”, in The Guardian:
- Condoleezza Rice pops up on Fox to be told by the anchor: "When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime." With a solemn nod, the former secretary of state to George Bush replies: "It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order."
- Coordinate terms: crime against humanity, genocide
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Translations
offense for violations of the law of war
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See also
- war criminal