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The web page covers the mass rapes of women by Soviet troops in Germany during and after World War II. It estimates the number of victims, the motives and consequences of the rapes, and the Soviet and Allied responses.
Several of the testimonies of victims of sexual violence during the Holocaust were by Jewish men and women. [23] Previous war crimes trials had prosecuted for sex crimes, hence war rape could have been prosecuted under customary law and/or under the IMT (International Military Tribunals) Charter's Article 6(b): "abduction of the civilian ...
Learn about the Manila massacre, a series of war crimes committed by Japanese troops against Filipino civilians in 1945 during the Battle of Manila. The article covers the description, causes, death toll, and aftermath of the massacre, as well as the trial and execution of the perpetrators.
In 2009, almost 40 years after the events of 1971, a report published by the War Crimes Fact Finding Committee of Bangladesh accused 1,597 people of war crimes, including rape. Since 2010, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has indicted, tried, and sentenced several people to life imprisonment or death for their actions during the conflict.
The web page covers the human rights violations and war crimes committed by U.S. forces against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003-2004. It also discusses the background, media coverage, legal consequences, and controversies of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a German overseer in the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. She was executed by hanging on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
Survivors' claims against the Japan government have been backed by the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation (TWRF) a non-profit organization helping women against violence, and sexual violence. This organization gives legal and psychological support to Taiwanese comfort women, and also helps in the recording of testimony and doing scholarly research.
Lieutenant William Calley was the only soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre, a war crime committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam in 1968. He was found guilty of murdering 22 civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment, but served only three years under house arrest.