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A war crimes trial is the trial of persons charged with criminal violation of the laws and customs of war and related principles of international law committed during armed conflict. History [ edit ] The trial of Peter von Hagenbach by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire in 1474, was the first "international" war crimes trials and also ...
Starvation (crime) Starving woman during the blockade of Biafra, an event that contributed significantly to the criminalization of starvation. Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, or an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law. [1] [2] [3] Starvation has not always been illegal ...
t. e. War crimes in the Syrian civil war have been numerous and serious. A United Nations report published in August 2014 stated that "the conduct of the warring parties in the Syrian Arab Republic has caused civilians immeasurable suffering". [1] Another UN report released in 2015 stated that the war has been "characterized by a complete lack ...
Tambov Rebellion. Tartu Credit Center Massacre. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Wars involving the Soviet Union. Russian war crimes. Wars involving Soviet Russia (1917–1922) Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
In October 2023, the Yangon-based Institute for Strategy and Policy wrote that the Tatmadaw had committed 22 massacres in the country since their 2021 coup d'état, defining a massacre as "the killing of 10 or more civilians at once". During the anti-junta forces's Operation 1027 offensive, war crimes and abuses by the Tatmadaw escalated.
Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (Polish: Zbrodnia nazistowska or zbrodnia hitlerowska) is a legal concept used in the Polish legal system, referring to an action which was carried out, inspired, or tolerated by public functionaries of Nazi Germany (1933–1945) that is also classified as a crime against humanity (in particular, genocide) or other ...
Organised crime. Organised crime in Pakistan includes fraud, racketeering, drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, extortion, ransom, political violence, etc. Terrorist attacks became common during the 2000s, especially in North-West Frontier Province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Balochistan, Karachi and Lahore.
On 15 September 2009, a 574-page report by UN inquiry team was released, officially titled "Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict". It concluded that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and possibly ...