There are treaties between nations regarding the conduct of war. The Nuremberg Principles define war crimes based on the law made up at the Nuremberg War Trials after the Second World War. Casus Belli, the case for war gives the grounds as self defence and UN permission which is a lot looser. There is also the voice of common decency. Of course when tempers are frayed it may get nasty. Then things can happen. They always have.
War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable in armed conflict (also known as international humanitarian law) giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of such conduct include "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of prisoners, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian 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.) Along with war crimes the charter also defined crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, which are often committed during wars and in concert with war crimes.
Article 22 of the Hague IV ("Laws of War: Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907") states that "The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited" and over the last century many other treaties have introduced positive laws that place constraints on belligerents (see International treaties on the laws of war). Some of the provisions, such as those in the Hague, the Geneva, and Genocide Conventions, are considered to be part of customary international law, and are binding on all. Others are only binding on individuals if the belligerent power to which they belong is a party to the treaty which introduced the constraint.
War Crime Defined By George Monbiot
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The
Nuremberg
Principles, which arose from the prosecution of Nazi war
criminals, define as an international crime the "planning, preparation,
initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of
international treaties, agreements or assurances". Bolton appears to have
"participated in a common plan" to prepare for the war (also defined by the
principles as a crime) by inserting the false claim that Iraq was seeking to
procure uranium from Niger into a state department fact sheet.
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Mr Monbiot is a peace campaigner
among other things. He has principles and does something about them. His
definition covers
Blair and Bush among many
others.
Allies' War Crimes
Our lot did it as well.
They were major and that was just in Germany after the war.
Busting the
Torture Myths
Yes it did happen. No it was not the little people; they were just the ones who
got thrown the the wolves. Bush and Cheney were in it up to their necks.
Canadian War Crimes
There was one major nasty. The evidence was
incontrovertible.
Concentration Camps
The Nazis ran several concentration camps. People died there.
So did Jews according to Jews demanding compensation. That is one major
reason why a lot of lies got told. The Holocaust Industry
tells us something about the tax free billions extorted by Singer and other
light fingered rogues.
Ethnic
Cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is an ugly euphemism for mass murder, terrorism
and driving people from their land. It is popular in Israel. So is the cant
going with it.
Holding prisoners without warrant is crime. Torture ditto. Of course if you control the law machine that is not an issue any more.
This could be Jews' crimes rather than just Israelis. Then it would be much bigger. The aftermath of The Second World War gave the Jew, Morgenthau his chance to murder Germans en masse. He took it and starved some 1.7 million of them to death. That is just one example.
Israeli War Crimes Against Gaza
Israel's
Crimes against Palestine
These are just some of them. They are part of a pattern of
systematic evil. Gerald Kaufman, a Jew says:- They are war criminals and
they are fools.
Japanese cruelty is notorious. It was not bad, it was worse as this source makes clear. Japanese Biological Warfare Experiments covers another aspect. Fortunately these victims were mainly Chinese.
Soviet War
Crimes
They are gross. Their crimes against their own people are even
worse.
War Criminals
They are out there, walking the streets with armed guards to protect them
from decent people and citizen's arrest.
Blair is
only one of them.
Jews Say Her Majesty's
Government Are War Criminals Too
[
13 October 2009 ]
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Paul Craig Roberts
“This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We’re entitled to do whatever the
hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them
is self-defence. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us
because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. “That’s the way it’s always been, that’s the way it was in Operation Cast
Lead..........
In the meantime, however,
the Israeli government put Sawers and the UK government on notice that
British support for the Goldstone Report would result in the destruction of the
double standard that protects the West and Israel and create a precedent that
would place the British in the dock for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. “London,” declared the Israeli government, “could find itself in handcuffs if
it supports the document [the Goldstone report].”
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All war criminals are equal but some are more equal than others. That is why the
Nazis got aggravation at the Nuremburg war trials while the perpetrators of the
Gaza Massacre got away with it and they are milking
The Holocaust®
story for every billion it is worth.
PS Doctor Roberts is a sound chap even though he was in politics for real.
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