War Crime

[babsbunny]

war crime

Any violation of the laws of war, as laid down by international customary law and certain international treaties. At the end of World War II, the part of the London Agreement signed by the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, and France established three categories of war crime: conventional war crimes (including murder, ill treatment, or deportation of the civilian population of occupied territories), crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity (political, racial, or religious persecution against any civilian population). The charter also provided for an international military tribunal to try major Axis war criminals. It further stated that a defendant's position as head of state would not free him from accountability, nor would having acted on orders or out of military necessity. German and Japanese war criminals were tried before Allied tribunals in Nürnberg and Tokyo in 1945–46 and 1946–48, respectively, and in the 1990s tribunals were created for the prosecution of war crimes committed in Rwanda and the territory of the former Yugoslavia. See also Geneva Convention; genocide; Hague Convention; Nürnberg trial.

[mike_c]

1. wow, this garnered an unrec IMMEDIATELY upon being posted....

Someone is a bit sensitive about this topic. Does Darth Cheney have a sock puppet DU account? Or was it just one of his minions? :rofl:

rec'd, by the way, offsetting the unrec!

[G_j]

2. I guess we need to be reminded of their existence

on DU

:shrug:

Thank you for pointing that out.

[Hutzpa]

6. It's from those that are being paid

to rec, now there new job is to see who can get the most unrec....


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[Contrary1]

7. I have appointed myself to the position of "The Equalizer".

Lots of threads around here get a negative immediately after they are posted. And it doesn't seem to matter what the subject or content is.

So I spend some time cancelling them out.

[timeforpeace]

3. From the title, I thought this was gonna be about the Pakistan bombings.

[madokie]

4. I think we'll be seeing war crimes trials of the bushco crew of war criminals

[hootinholler]

8. Whatever I can do to move that forward I shall! n/t

[Senator]

5. Obama Should Draft Justice Souter...

...to head up a very public Nuremberg-like Tribunal.

It's the right way to project a reality-based commitment to accountability and transparency to the public/electorate, the world at large, and to our future generations. Displaying the principle to apply to ourselves the same standards we have imposed, and continue to impose, on others would instantly return our once-great nation to its position as beacon of hope.

It might well get him reelected by 20 points and start talk of a place on Mt. Rushmore.

Or, he can just keep "looking away forward." To what, I'm not quite sure about other than perpetual fear-based, beltway-driven decimation of Our National Soul.

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[Beam Me Up]

9. +1 n/t