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Definition: War Crime |
War CrimeNoun1. A crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A war crime is a violation of established protections of the laws of war. The term is defined largely by international law, including the Geneva Conventions. It comprises such acts as mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilians. Some instances of mass murder and genocide are in whole or part to be considered war crimes.
War crimes are significant in human rights law because it is an area where international tribunals such as the Nuremberg Trials have been convened. Recent examples are the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
On July 1, 2002 the International Criminal Court based in The Hague came into being for the prosecution of war crimes committed after that date.
To date, the only former heads of state or government that have been charged with war crimes are former US president George H. W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, and former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Recently there have also appeared testimonies of "peace crimes" committed against the Nazi children in the peace time after the war, after 1945, as part of the victors' celebration. These peace crimes reflect the complexity of justice when the winners' mentality dominates in international criminal tribunals.
See also: Crime against peace, Crime against humanity, laws of war, War Crimes Law (Belgium)
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Economic History | The Netherlands | A centuries-old tradition of legal scholarship has made the Netherlands the home of the International Court of Justice; the Iran Claims Tribunal; the Yugoslavia and Rwanda War Crime Tribunals; the European police organization, Europol; and the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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war crime | 133 |
japanese war crime | 22 |
nazi war crime | 19 |
nuremberg war crime trial | 16 |
war crime tribunal | 9 |
international war crime tribunal | 7 |
bosnian war crime | 6 |
viet nam war crime | 5 |
bosnia war crime | 4 |
nazi war crime trial | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "war crime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | váleèný zloèin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krigsforbrydelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oorlogsmisdaad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crime de guerre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kriegsverbrechen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | háborús bűn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crimine di guerra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 戦争犯罪 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"そうは"ざい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arway imecray crime de guerra. (various references) военный преступление. (various references) crimen de guerra. (various references) krigsförbrytelse. (various references) savaş suçu (war guilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: aircrew. | |
-2 letters: racier, rewarm, warier, warmer. | |
-3 letters: aimer, airer, amice, areic, armer, carer, ceria, cream, crier, crime, erica, macer, micra, racer, ramie, rawer, rearm, ricer, rimer, wirer, wirra, wrier. | |
-4 letters: acme, acre, amie, amir, came, care, carr, cire, cram, craw, crew, emic, emir, mace, mair, marc, mare, mica, mice, mire, race, rami, rare, ream. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-r-r-w" | |
+3 letters: schwarmerei. | |
+4 letters: schwarmereis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 72 43 72 69 6D 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01110010 01101001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a r   C r i m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0072 0043 0072 0069 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57678423784757971 |
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