war crime
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- noun
- /wɔr kraɪm/
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crimen de guerra
- And it will hold Russia accountable for their war crimes, because Russia must pay to rebuild what they have destroyed.
- committing war crimes
- charged with war crimes
- guilty of war crimes
Quote UN, quote alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
- Quote UN, quote alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
- It is a war crime to hood your prisoners.
- They found Israel guilty of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
- A just peace where those responsible for appalling war crimes will finally be held to account.
- And we in the UK will do whatever we can to hold them to account for these war crimes.
- And it will hold Russia accountable for their war crimes, because Russia must pay to rebuild what they have destroyed.
- So when individual member of a platoon starts killing innocent civilians in law, we will deem this particular act to be a war crime.
- Another way to ask that is there in military policy, in conducting war, is there a good way to know what is a just war and what is a war crime?
- What do you say to this rhetoric from the ICC that contemplate warrants for your arrest for war crimes?
- So it would be nice to, say, remove the Assad regime, you know, put him on trial for war crimes.
- And that doesn't excuse Putin or what he did was a war crime without question.
- It's a war crime to put hoods on them.
- That's where we're grabbing all the Pifwicks for all the war crimes against all the people over there.
- And I don't know what they're fighting for other than basic war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Examples
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A just peace where those responsible for appalling war crimes will finally be held to account.
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The president threatening cultural sites, which is a war crime, is bad and we should be shouting about it.
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We have evidence of a war crime!
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After my father came back to Japan, he was tried for war crimes.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is a human rights violation and a war crime of a level that just takes the breath away.
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Of course, the other big story continues to be Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.
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The murder of the 11 Americans at Wereth was not the only war crime committed on December 17, 1944.
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They found Israel guilty of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
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An International Criminal Court is needed to prosecute those who commit ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and other crimes against humanity.
Academic text (2000) -
The tribunal convicted several soldiers for committing a war crime against unarmed civilians during the conflict.
Synonyms
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An act that breaks the law and can be punished
How Serious
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning—an unlawful act committed in the context of armed conflict—is directly and transparently derived from combining 'war' and 'crime', so a learner who knows both words will infer it refers to crimes carried out during war. The precise legal framing (international law) is specialist detail, but the basic concept is compositionally clear and cross-linguistically mirrored (e.g. Spanish 'crimen de guerra'), supporting transparency.
Etymology
War crime comes from the simple joining of war and crime: it pictures a very serious wrong done during a war, like killing civilians or prisoners. After the big wars of the 1900s, courts started to try people for these acts, so today war crime means 'a very serious crime' carried out in a war.