Meaning of "war crime" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WAR CRIME

war crime

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAR CRIME

War crime is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAR CRIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

War crime

A war crime is a serious violation of the laws and customs of war (also known as international humanitarian law) giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of war crimes such as: ▪ murdering, mistreating, or deporting civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps ▪ murdering or mistreating prisoners of war or civilian internees ▪ forcing protected persons to serve in the forces of a hostile power ▪ killing hostages ▪ killing or punishing spies or other persons convicted of war crimes without a fair trial ▪ wantonly destroying cities, towns, villages, or any object not warranted by military necessity Similar concepts, such as perfidy, have existed for many centuries as customs between civilized countries, but these customs were first codified as international law in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The modern concept of a war crime was further developed under the auspices of the Nuremberg Trials based on the definition in the London Charter that was published on August 8, 1945. (Also see Nuremberg Principles.

Definition of war crime in the English dictionary

The definition of war crime in the dictionary is a crime committed in wartime in violation of the accepted rules and customs of war, such as genocide, ill-treatment of prisoners of war, etc.

TRANSLATION OF WAR CRIME

Find out the translation of war crime to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of war crime from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «war crime» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 战争罪
• Translator English - Spanish: crimen de guerra
• English: war crime
• Translator English - Hindi: युद्ध अपराध
• Translator English - Arabic: جريمة حرب
• Translator English - Russian: военным преступлением
• Translator English - Portuguese: crime de guerra
• Translator English - Bengali: যুদ্ধ অপরাধ
• Translator English - French: crime de guerre
• Translator English - Malay: Jenayah perang
• Translator English - German: Kriegsverbrechen
• Translator English - Japanese: 戦争犯罪
• Translator English - Korean: 전쟁 범죄
• Translator English - Javanese: Tindak pidana perang
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tội ác chiến tranh
• Translator English - Tamil: போர் குற்றம்
• Translator English - Marathi: युद्ध गुन्हा
• Translator English - Turkish: savaş suçu
• Translator English - Italian: crimine di guerra
• Translator English - Polish: zbrodnia wojenna
• Translator English - Ukrainian: військовим злочином
• Translator English - Romanian: crimă de război
• Translator English - Greek: έγκλημα πολέμου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oorlog misdaad
• Translator English - Swedish: krigsförbrytelse
• Translator English - Norwegian: krigsforbrytelse

6 QUOTES WITH «WAR CRIME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word war crime.

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Antony Beevor

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

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Sebastian Junger

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

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Sebastian Junger

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

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John Pomfret

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

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George Wald

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

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Alan Zweibel

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAR CRIME»

Discover the use of war crime in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to war crime and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Srebrenica: record of a war crime

Describes how Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica murdered thousands of unarmed Muslim men, both soldiers and civilians, in a supposed safe area, while UN troops did nothing

Jan Willem Honig, Norbert Both, 1996

War Crimes and War Crime Trials: From Leipzig to the ICC and ...

This is both a casebook of selected war crime decisions by various national and international tribunals in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as well as a brief historical account of the geopolitical, diplomatic and military ...

John C. Watkins, John Paul Weber, 2006

Son Thang: an American war crime

Describes the murders of sixteen women and children by United States Marines during the Vietnam War, the investigation of the war crime, and the courts-marshall that followed

Gary D. Solis, 1997

The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in ...

Interviews residents, community leaders, and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) staff to paint a portrait of what life is like among the gunfire and dangerous housing conditions at three CHA housing projects.

Susan J. Popkin, 2000

Rules of Engagement?: A Social Anatomy of an American War ...

The officers who issued the unlawful ROE were never prosecuted and neither was anyone further up the chain of command.This book stands alone in analyzing a war crime from Iraq that involved the murder of noncombatants, questionable rules of ...

Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović, 2008

After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New ...

The volume's immediate goal is to spark a fresh conversation about the war on crime and its consequences; its long-term aspiration is to develop a clear understanding of how we got here and of where we should go.

Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, Jonathan Simon, 2008

Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

In this fascinating book Nicholas Rogers explores the moral panic associated with this rapid demobilization.

Nicholas Rogers, 2013

Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes: Nullum Crimen ...

574. The Elements of these categories of war crimes generally reflect the case law just described. The Elements of the war crime of "inhuman treatment" requires that the perpetrator inflicted severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon one ...

Machteld Boot, 2002

Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide

The first time that rape was specifically cited as a war crime was at the TOKYO TRIALS of Japanese war criminals who were charged with violation of the laws and customs of war. Several Japanese officers were found guilty of allowing troops ...

Leslie Alan Horvitz, Christopher Catherwood, 2009

国际刑事法院罗马规约缔约国大会: 第一届会议正式记录 : 2002年9月3日至10日,纽约

War crime of depriving the nationals of the hostile power of rights or actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . War crime of compelling participation in military operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . War crime of pillaging .

Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Session, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAR CRIME»

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Gaza: 'Israeli war crimes' followed soldier's capture - Amnesty

Amnesty International says there is "strong evidence" Israel committed war crimes in Gaza following the capture of a soldier by Hamas in last year's war. «BBC News, Jul 15»

Palestinians to hand war crime dossier to International Criminal Court

Riad Malki, Palestinian foreign minister, will present a dossier to the International Criminal Court on Thursday detailing war crimes and crimes against humanity ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»

War Crimes and the Gaza War

It found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that “may amount to war crimes” by both Israel and the Palestinian militants during a 50-day war ... «New York Times, Jun 15»

Bangladesh Executes Islamist Leader Mohammad Qamaruzzaman …

... charges of crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war, the second man to be hanged since the government revived war crime trials ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»

Bosnian, US officials discuss deportations over war crimes

The Bosnian war ended in a 1995 U.S.-brokered peace deal. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague ruled the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men ... «Reuters, Mar 15»

Is Israel Guilty of War Crimes?

On November 4, 2014, Amnesty International published a scathing report on Israeli "war crimes" in Gaza during the war between Hamas and Israel last year. «Gatestone Institute, Jan 15»

Bangladesh: Islamist party leader gets death sentence for war crimes

The leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes, in a long-awaited verdict that has triggered fears of fresh violence. «The Guardian, Oct 14»

Yasukuni Shrine: the 14 'Class A' war criminals honoured by Japan

Tojo attempted to commit suicide before his arrest but survived, and was put on trial before the International Tribunal for the Far East for war crimes and found ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»

89-year-old Philadelphia man accused of war crimes as Nazi death …

For decades, prosecutors say, Johann (John) Breyer had successfully eluded a dark past. In his twilight years, the 89-year-old Philadelphia man was forced to ... «CNN, Jun 14»

Sri Lanka 'war crimes': the evidence

As the UN prepares to launch an inquiry into allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News presents the evidence collected ... «Channel 4 News, Mar 14»