Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various crimes, such as genocide or the mistreatment of prisoners of war, committed during a war and considered in violation of the conventions of warfare.
Wiktionary
- n. law A punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war
Examples
“After World War II, when there were not two but four Germanies — the American, British, French, and Russian sectors — the policy in all four sectors was what the Americans called "de-Nazification," a purge of high and low Nazi officials from all responsible positions and war crime trials for all ranking Nazis.”
“Yamashita was then taken to Bilibid Prison in Manila to await war crime trials.”
“There were three judges during the war crime trial -- a human, a Dyb ', and the commander of the Irlane army.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘war crime’.
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SEDE - military policy and diplomacy
military conflict, non-proliferation..., decommission, gun control, accept a ceasefir..., according to the ..., action plan, ad-hoc conciliati..., administrative co..., alliances, arms control, arms trade and 268 more...
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JURI - crimes and offences
Don't commit any of these if you can
firearms trafficking, serious and organ..., trafficking in hu..., illegal shipment ..., cybercrime, money laundering, sale of counterfe..., sale of dangerous..., smuggling, infraction, corruption, organised crime and 153 more...
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AFET - diplomacy - noun+noun collocat...
accession negotia..., accreditation check, adversary adviser, arms-control treaty, candidate country, career diplomat, cartography channel, charm offensive, client state, conspiracy theory, counter-intellige..., courtesy shuttle and 95 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - international relations
ABM Agreement, accession to a co..., accession to a tr..., accession to an a..., achievement of peace, ACP-EC Convention, advanced technolo..., aerospace industry, African organisation, aggression, agreement, agricultural coop... and 851 more...
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