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1952–1960: Mau Mau uprising. 1954–1962: Algerian War. 1955–1975: Vietnam War. 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. Late 1960s – 1998: The Troubles. 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. 1970–1975: Cambodian civil war. 1973 Yom Kippur war. 1975-1999: Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor. 1975–1990: Lebanese Civil War. 1978–2021: Civil war in Afghanistan.
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 ...
Mar 29, 2024 · The charter listed three categories of crime: (1) crimes against peace, which involved the preparation and initiation of a war of aggression, (2) war crimes (or “conventional war crimes”), which included murder, ill treatment, and deportation, and (3) crimes against humanity, which included political, racial, and religious persecution of ...
- Mary Margaret Penrose
The present table seeks to provide the war crimes over which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction, togetherwith the definition of such offences as found in other sources ofinternational humanitarian law (IHL).
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Mar 28, 2022 · Relying heavily on the 1949 Geneva Conventions, along with a 1977 update, the statute governing the ICC contains a long list of war crimes, including torture, willful killing, willfully...
- Jesse Greenspan
About the Court. The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
United States war crimes. Members of the United States Armed Forces have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing of the Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
