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| | War crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. | | | War crimes are sometimes part of instances of mass murder and genocide though these crimes are more broadly covered under international humanitarian law described as crimes against humanity. | | | War crimes are significant in international humanitarian law because it is an area where international tribunals such as the Nuremberg Trials have been convened. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
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| | Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War |
| | A prisoner of war shall be tried only by a military court, unless the existing laws of the Detaining Power expressly permit the civil courts to try a member of the armed forces of the Detaining Power in respect of the particular offence alleged to have been committed by the prisoner of war. | | | Prisoners of war who are paroled or who have given their promise in conformity with the laws and regulations so notified, are bound on their personal honour scrupulously to fulfil, both towards the Power on which they depend and towards the Power which has captured them, the engagements of their paroles or promises. | | | Prisoners of war may not be sentenced by the military authorities and courts of the Detaining Power to any penalties except those provided for in respect of members of the armed forces of the said Power who have committed the same acts. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
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| | War on Crime |
| | Therefore, for gun-related crimes, most jurisdictions have passed what are called penalty enhancements--extra years added on to a sentence, which results in mandatory minimum sentences. | | | The Tenth Amendment states that any powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states, and it must be remembered that the prohibition on alcohol was only made possible by an amendment to the constitution. | | | Penalty enhancements are an attempt to deter gun-related violence by assigning a presumed intent to specific criminal acts, thus short-circuiting the problem of determining actual intent in a court of law. |
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http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/111/111lect15.htm
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe What is a war crime? |
| | Critics of international courts often argue that international justice can only be truly legitimate when all war crimes, committed by any county, come under the jurisdiction of a single international court. | | | The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and others accused of war crimes at The Hague is being seen as a crucial test of international law and international legal institutions. | | | Although both The Hague and Arusha tribunals represent significant further steps in bringing those accused of war crimes to justice, they are, like Nuremberg and Tokyo, committed to dealing with war crimes in specific conflicts. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1420133.stm
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| | War Crimes |
| | Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principles VI is a crime under international law. | | | The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. | | | Principle II The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law. |
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http://www.oilempire.us/warcrime.html
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| | New England School of Law: War Crimes |
| | Our Links to current awareness news links (note that Court TV posts documents from war crimes trials that never make it on Lexis). | | | War Crimes and Individual Responsibility: A Prima Facie Case for the Indictment of Slobodan Milosevic | | | Post-Conference Materials -- containing the first reading of the rules of procedure and evidence, and of the elements of crimes. |
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http://www.nesl.edu/research/warcrim.cfm
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| | Factbook: Crime |
| | Twenty-one percent of violent felons in state prisons committed their crimes while under the influence of alcohol alone. | | | The chart at the right illustrates the homicide rate in the United States from 1900 to 1998. | | | Source: Crime in the United States: FBI Uniform Crime Reports 2004 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2005), p. |
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http://www.drugwarfacts.org/crime.htm
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| | It's a crime, not a war. |
| | It should be simple to position this act as a crime, not a war. | | | And we should present those to a court, possibly the court of public opinion. | | | If that is the case, then maybe, just maybe a military action will be needed to extract the criminal from its protection. |
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http://www.quaker.org/crime.html
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| | t r u t h o u t - Marjorie Cohn Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime |
| | He also said: "If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." | | | Bush knows that the Court will also punish war crimes. | | | The only two situations where the UN Charter permits the use of armed force against another state is in self-defense, or when authorized by the Security Council. |
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110904A.shtml
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| | Rape as a Crime of War: A Medical Perspective |
| | (12) While political events have led many to doubt whether war criminals will in fact be brought to justice in the former Yugoslavia, the UN Security Council has authorized the establishment of a war crimes tribunal. | | | The following procedures, some of which are currently being used in criminal cases in the United States, could, in the future, help establish the identities of these perpetrators. | | | Treaties and other international agreements provide the legal basis for establishing prosecutions in cases of rape committed in wartime. |
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http://www.phrusa.org/research/health_effects/humrape.html
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| | war crime - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about war crime |
| | A key principle of the law relating to such crimes is that obedience to the orders of a superior is no defence. | | | The first ever war-crimes case in Britain began in May 1996. | | | Offence (such as murder of a civilian or a prisoner of war) that contravenes the internationally accepted laws governing the conduct of wars, particularly the Hague Convention of 1907 and the Geneva Convention of 1949. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/war+crime
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| | The Avalon Project : The International Military Tribunal for Germany |
| | Royal Warrant : Regulations for the Trial of War Criminals; June 18, 1945 | | | Joint Chiefs of Staff : Directive on the Identification and Apprehension of Persons Suspected of War Crimes or Other Offenses and Trial of Certain Offenders; July 8, 1945 | | | Please type your search term in to the box and press enter. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
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| | US CODE: Title 18,2441. War crimes |
| | Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death. | | | (2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907; | | | Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act). |
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002441----000-.html
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| | Can You Spot The War Crime? Gregory Elich |
| | For crimes committed against US personnel, we, the United States, will prosecute." Crimes committed against the Iraqi people are to be judged by Iraqis, acting under American guidance and control. | | | A total of five exercises will test the reader's comprehension of the issue of crimes against humanity. | | | The correct answer is that the broadcast of five American prisoners of war was a war crime. |
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http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ELI305A.html
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| | Nuremberg War Crime Trials - The International Military Tribunal |
| | The court itself was to determine the locale for the subsequent trials. | | | The prosecution entered indictments against 24 "major war criminals" and against 6 "criminal organizations": Hitler's Cabinet, the leadership corps of the Nazi party, the SS (party police) and SD (security police), the Gestapo, the SA and the General Staff and High Command of the army. | | | From November 20, 1945, until October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) convened in the principal courtroom for criminal cases (room No. 600) in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. |
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http://www.justiz.bayern.de/olgn/imt/imte.htm
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| | Hateful words a war crime - The Washington Times: World |
| | Three Rwandan media executives were convicted by the international tribunal of committing and inciting genocide, war crimes and persecution in a case that will set a precedent for the new International Criminal Court. | | | Ferdinand Nahimana (left) and Hassan Ngeze were both sentenced to life in prison for using their media roles to encourage Rwandan genocide. | | | It has been one of the most closely watched cases before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), seated in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031203-113817-3449r.htm
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| | DAWN - Opinion; December 4, 2001 |
| | Yet it was this letter that elicited a crucial response from Khrushchev indicating there was room for compromise. | | | This was supposed to be a war about justice. | | | Only when Pakistan, the EU and others called for international law to be respected did they abandon that line. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/04/op.htm
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| | See the US War crimes on Iraq |
| | The United States is using napalm in Falluja | | | Gitmo Torture and Rumsfeld's and Tenet's War Crimes | | | Effects Of War And The Use Of Depleted Uranium On Iraq |
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http://www.albasrah.net/warcrimes.htm
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| | The Uncovering and Reburial of a War Crime |
| | This page is available for archival purposes only and has not been updated since January 2005. | | | Among other things, he repeated a common assertion that Kerrey, upon his return from Vietnam, spoke and organized against the war. | | | In fact, he accepted a Congressional Medal of Honor from President Nixon, in a photo op staged to counter the antiwar protests. |
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http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/kerrey.html
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| | Independent Online Edition > Home |
| | Scotland Yard chief under renewed pressure to quit | | | Hopeful nations must tackle crime to join Europe |
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| | Crimes of War Project |
| | The McCain Amendment on Detainee Abuse: Will It Make A Difference? | | | Former Liberian President Likely to Face War Crimes Trial in The Hague | | | Human Rights and the War in Chechnya: A Test for Europe |
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http://www.crimesofwar.org
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| | Amazon.com: War Crime Blues: Music: Chris Whitley |
| | John Alapick (Wilkes-Barre, PA United States) - See all my reviews | | | Those new to his work may be better advised to try his debut, LIVING WITH THE LAW or his excellent compilation LONG WAY AROUND first. | | | while not an overtly political record, "made from dirt", "war crime blues", and a cover of the clash's "london calling" among others comment on the shaky state of affairs in the world today. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00024I2KY?v=glance
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports War crime suspect arrested |
| | Full house for The Hague's war crimes unit | | | The arrest came less than two weeks after the UN war crimes court released footage of the executions of six Bosnian Muslims by members of the notorious Scorpions paramilitary unit. | | | He will be charged with war crimes against civilians, and could face 20 years in prison if convicted. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,2763,1505968,00.html
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| | TheHistoryNet: From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher |
| | Appearances could be misleading on the battlefields of the Civil War. | | | Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch was determined to fly from early childhood, and she would set more than 40 records in her lifetime. | | | Hoodwinked During the Civl War: Union Military Deception |
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| | NewsGateway - Fallujah Video Massacre |
| | This is a clear war crime, and one that begins with the commander’s stated intent in the operations order. | | | And that's where we are with this war. | | | This is the equivalent of three consecutive FULL HOUR programs of 60 Minutes chronicling that the War on Terror - the supreme geopolitical catalyst - is another lie. |
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http://www.newsgateway.ca/Fallujah_video_massacre.htm
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| | Alexander Cockburn: "Let Them Drink Sand" |
| | War Crimes in Fallujah; a Gutsy Campaign Against Lantos | | | After the Morning After: On the Homefront of the Civil War | | | Her outrage at Lantos for his support of the war compelled her to take him on. |
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| | US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal' |
| | US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal' | | | BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. | | | There have also been cases of Iraqi babies born without the crowns of their skulls, a deformity also linked to DU shelling. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm
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| | International War Crimes Tribunal |
| | A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal | | | This report was given in New York, May 11, 1991. | | | No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force. |
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http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm
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| | Sobran Column --- War and Crime |
| | The lawless modern state is a gigantic criminal operation, and any private firm that was found to be running like the state would be not only driven out of business, but prosecuted on many counts. | | | The Iraq war may join Vietnam and Watergate in the liberal litany of government corruption. | | | For once the modus operandi of the modern state has been starkly exposed. |
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http://www.sobran.com/columns/2004/040205.shtml
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| | POWs On TV a War Crime? It Depends on Who's Videotaping |
| | Under the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war must be dealt with humanely at all times and not put on display for propaganda purposes. | | | This was not a fuzzy issue for U.S. commentators, but an obvious violation of international law: "They paraded before the cameras members of the U.S. military that had been captured, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war," the San Antonio Express-News opined (3/24/03). | | | Believe that, and there's a bridge over the Tigris you might like to buy. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East US issues 'human shields' warning |
| | "These are not tactics of war, they are crimes of war. | | | Deploying human shields is not a military strategy, it's murder, a violation of the laws of armed conflict, and a crime against humanity, and it will be treated as such." | | | General Myers said: "It is a violation of the law of armed conflict to use non-combatants as a means of shielding potential military targets - even those people who may volunteer for this purpose." |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2782955.stm
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| | Japanese War Crimes |
| | Japanese Governement constantly denies or minimizes these crimes, and until now, it has not made any formal apology for its aggressions and crimes against China and other Asian nations. | | | The Japanese general public glorify the war criminals as patriotoc heros, enshrine them as gods, threaten the former soldiers who are telling the truth.. | | | The Japanese Government has successfully gotten away from the remaining problems, they hide or destroy documents, they destroy newly uncovered evidence of war crimes, they refuse to pay the living victims such as the comfort women, they remove the war crimes from their history textbooks... |
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http://centurychina.com/wiihist
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| | AskOxford: war crime |
| | • noun an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. |
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| | CD Baby: WAR CRIME: No Escape |
| | As with all things, by 1998, War Crime had seen the departure of bassist A.J. Schad, and though he was temporarily replaced, Cenker and Robley decided to lay their metal beast, War Crime, to its final rest. | | | Released in 1997 on Black Wall Records, War Crime's "No Escape" album, in all its raw glory, was an underground hit in Los Angeles, and received rave reviews in Europe,garnering extensive airplay and a huge overseas audience. | | | By the end of 1996, it was due time to give something new to the audience, and War Crime invaded the studio to record a load of brand new tracks. |
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