war crime
Battlefield legal breach
A war crime is a violation of the laws of armed conflict—killing civilians, torturing prisoners, attacking hospitals, using prohibited weapons.
The term gained formal standing after World War II with the Nuremberg trials.
War crimes can be prosecuted by international tribunals or national courts.
The commander was indicted for war crimes committed during the siege.
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- violationBreaking of rules
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- ethnic violenceAggression based on ancestry
mass killing · massacre · The Hague · ICC · international law · mass grave · refugee camp · pogrom · Geneva Conventions · offense · holocaust · forced labor · military justice · military tribunal · victim · occupied territory · political violence · bombing
- war violencemassacre, bombardment, bombing, shelling, combat
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- military offensesdesertion, insubordination, mutiny, AWOL, absence without leave
- war journalismembedded reporter, embedded journalism, frontline, conflict zone, combat footage
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
- political violenceassassination, targeted killing, insurrection, summary execution, state terror
war crimemercy
Compassion toward offenders
rescue operation · medical aid · rescue mission · gallantry · chivalry
war, crime, criminal, warfare, warring, antiwar, wartime, postwar, prewar