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2 days ago · Established in 1936, Unit 731 was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. It routinely conducted tests on people who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs".
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Under international law, war crimes were formally defined as...
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Hamas was accused of committing acts of gender-based...
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2 days ago · During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers. At the end of World War II , many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials .
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4 days ago · This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
5 days ago · The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely civilians, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (American) Infantry Division, on 16 March 1968.
5 days ago · During World War II, about 1,000 Japanese soldiers were reportedly massacred by saltwater crocodiles on Ramree Island, Burma. Historians and experts doubt the veracity of the crocodile attack story, as no official military reports from either side confirm it, and the behavior of saltwater crocodiles does not support such a feeding frenzy.
