war crimes trials
Genocide tribunal proceedings
War crimes trials are legal proceedings that prosecute individuals for violations of the laws of war—atrocities like genocide, torture, and targeting civilians.
The Nuremberg trials after World War II established the precedent that following orders is no defense.
Such trials occur in international tribunals or domestic courts: The war crimes trials lasted for years.
- International Criminal CourtGenocide prosecution tribunal
- Tokyo TrialsPostwar Japanese leadership prosecution
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- Bosnian War1990s Balkan ethnic conflict
- World War IISecond global military conflict
Slobodan Milošević · superior orders · judge · Geneva Conventions · legal precedent · Potsdam Conference · lawyer · Nuremberg Trials · witness · accountability · sworn testimony · Armenian Genocide · mass graves · never again · sentence · death sentence · United Nations Security Council · dock
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, guilty
- international lawinternational law, treaty, treaties, conventions, protocols
- postwarrebuilding, demobilization, peace treaties, treaty signing, war reparations
- postwar eraMarshall Plan, prosperity, reconstruction, Cold War, iron curtain
- Postwar EuropeBerlin Wall, Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, iron curtain, NATO
- postwar GermanyWest Germany, East Germany, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, Federal Republic
war crimes trialsamnesty
Group pardon from authorities
blanket amnesty · impunity · pardons · safe passage · cover-up
war crimes trialsrestorative justice
Conflict resolution through mutual healing
national reconciliation · community healing · moving on · memorialization
war crimes trialssummary execution
Killing without formal trial
lynch mobs · vigilante justice · lynch mob · assassination · mob justice