WAR

CRIMES
-ANTIL GANDHI
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DO YOU
CALL
THIS A
WAR?
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BUTT IN GROIN: A rifle is cruelly jabbed in the young

man's groin
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Definition:
A cruel act done during a war which is illegal
under international law
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WHAT IS A WAR CRIME?

As Defined in the Geneva and Hague Conventions
 Crimes AGAINST HUMANITY
 Crimes Against Peace
 Crimes against civilians
 Crimes against POW’s
 Mass Rape as A tool of war
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 Crimes Against
Humanity
 Genocide in WWII
 The Holocaust
 China
 Ethnic Cleansing in
Yugoslavia
 Genocide in Rwanda
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Crimes Against Peace
 Waging an aggressive
war
 Germany starting WWII
 Japan attacking China
and the US without
provocation
 Serbia instigating and
supporting the Bosnian
Serbs in Yugoslavia
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Crimes Against Civilians
 Targeting Civilian
populations and centers
 World War II – the
Battle of Britain
 The Siege of Sarajevo
during the Bosnian war
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Crimes Against POW’s
 Torture of POW’s
 Starvation of POW’s
 Threats Against POW’s
 Possible example: CIA
interrogations of
suspected terrorists
after 9/11
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Mass Rape as a Tool of
War
 Added to the list of War
Crimes after wide use of
this tactic in the Bosnian
War
 Also widely used in
Rwanda and Darfur
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WHY ARE
THERE WAR
CRIMES?
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 The first war crimes trials were held after
WWII in Nuremberg and in Tokyo
 The atrocities seen in WWII were on a greater
scale than seen in previous wars
 The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials were
attempts by the Allies to hold German and
Japanese leaders accountable for the policies
and tactics they had used during the war
 A major criticism of these trials was that it
was just “victors justice”
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 International Criminal
Tribunal for Yugoslavia
(ICTY)
 International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda
(ICTR)
 Ad hoc tribunals
established by the UN
Security Council to
prosecute war crimes
committed during the
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International Criminal Court
 It would be a permanent
                              
institution with powers to
prosecute war crimes in any
                             
state that has signed the
statute governing its creation
 It has not been established
yet
 The US and China and many
other countries are
attempting to block the
establishment of this court