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  • Calls for divesture, boycotts and war-crime trials increased and criticism of Arafat diminished.

    The Palestinian's tactics and "proportionality" Not a sheep 2009

  • It was a hideous war-crime to use nuclear weapons on Japan, as bad as the Japanese behaviour was, and it was also a hideous war-crime what we did at Abu Ghraib.

    Matthew Yglesias » India’s Response to Terrorism 2010

  • In some of the gravest war-crime charges to arise from the Afghan conflict, five soldiers have been accused of killing unarmed Afghan men, apparently for sport, and desecrating their corpses.

    Brigade's strategy: 'Strike and destroy' Craig Whitlock 2010

  • Four other members of Morlock's platoon have also been charged with murder in perhaps the gravest war-crime allegations to emerge from the nine-year-old Afghanistan conflict.

    Soldier in Army war-crimes case signs plea deal in killings of Afghan civilians Craig Whitlock 2011

  • Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on war-crime charges, will skip an economic forum in Malaysia next week.

    What's News— 2011

  • The report's very mission conflicted with international norms that assign to accused states primary responsibility to investigate war-crime allegations.

    Sinister Times And What to Do Peter Berkowitz 2011

  • Khartoum has denied the war-crime allegations against Mr. Bashir.

    Chinese Are Missing After Attack in Sudan Brian Spegele 2012

  • Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on war-crime charges, will skip an economic forum in Malaysia next week.

    What's News— 2011

  • Because war-crime prosecutions were suspended in the 1950s, he was never brought to justice.

    The Defiant Ones Steve Oney 2010

  • Its leaders with time were indicted on war-crime charges, as was Charles Taylor, who helped ferry them their guns.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

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