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War crimes: Various unarmed male civilians (some of whom were named during a 2013 television programme) were shot, two of them (Patrick McVeigh, Daniel Rooney) fatally, in 1972, allegedly by the Military Reaction Force (MRF), an undercover military unit tasked with targeting Irish Republican Army paramilitaries during the last installment of ...
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
United States war crimes. The United States Armed Forces and its members have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing of the Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military Justice ...
War crimes in World War I. Namur City Hall, destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium, 1914. During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This includes the use of indiscriminate violence and massacres against civilians ...
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).
A. Afghan war crimes (1 C, 11 P) Albanian war crimes (1 C, 3 P) Algerian war crimes (2 C, 7 P) Armenian war crimes (1 C, 4 P) Australian war crimes (3 C, 3 P) Austrian war crimes (3 C, 4 P) Azerbaijani war crimes (1 C, 16 P)
Russian war crimes. Residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, after a Russian missile attack on 14 January 2023. Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide [1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have committed or been accused of ...
Israeli war crimes. Israeli war crimes are violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the Israel Defense Forces have committed or been accused of committing since the founding of Israel in 1948.