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What is your definition of a war crime? Please give some examples.

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The only solid definition is any of the activities found in either the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Geneva Conventions. It includes things like the basic treatment of POWs, the prohibition of certain types of weapons, targeting of civilians and hospital ships, what you can and can't do in occupied territories, the requirement to wear uniforms, and so on.

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Use of chemical weapons - i.e. white phosphorus used by the IDF on Palestinians, or on Syrians by the coalition. Agent orange used in Vietnam. The use of nuclear weapons on Japan.

Then there's the colonial/invading forces - i.e. Operation Banner in the occupied 6 counties in Ireland, the sacking of Cork in 1920, the executions of over a thousand Kenyan rebels in the 50s, My Lai in Vietnam in '68.

You get the idea.

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War itself is a crime unless the context is against a real "unbeatable by other means" threat to human nature and evolution. So warcrime could be "going to war" or "what you do on the battlefield".

The General

When everyone kill each other, it is difficult to say it is war crime, because this is basic survival (self defenses). Creating this animalistic environment is a war crime (against humanity crime).

A war crime is when you had the opportunity to use peaceful mean (like diplomacy) and choose to kill and make war.

A war crime is when you could break bread and did not want to because alternate motives like religious beliefs, or money appeal, or on sided politics ideals....

People have the rights to be different but not the one to kill an other.

America is on the cliff on that one. Because there are very powerful, and forgot they had other means than war to break a threat. Nonetheless, there are very open to breaches in human rights and when there is a hard dictature killing its people they have the right to go to war (protect the defenseless).

The Particular

Torture is warcrime. It is barbaric. Now, we have soft means to find truth in a prisoner so there is no need for torture anymore. If someone tell you different, it is just a mass killer, an animal loving to pain in an other being.

Mass Killing of unarmed people is war crime.

Just damaging the enemy body is war crime. Often, it is about hate or to block the after war rebuilding.

Colonisation or ethnocolonisation is about to become a warcrime. You don't have the right to colonise through any mean an other being (economics, religious, politics). So here, intent and hard proof will become important.

Today

War crime is about having a barbaric war solution to create peace.

Sometime it is just going to war to win territory or religion.

To concluded on Peace

The future peaces will be about taking good care of the people, giving them food, education, liberty, progress no making or letting them suffering unneeded pain. The more sensitive and intelligent humanity become, the higher the warcrime level will rise.

So expect, the hardest judgment in the future. We are growing fast.

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NCM

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Persons who order their subordinates to attack something in a way to accuire certain privilledge.

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The only definitions that matter are the definitions that are binding under international agreement, for example the Hague and Geneva Conventions. Our opinions don't enter into it. One may as well ask, "What is, in your opinion, criminal assault?"

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Like Katsu and M3 have already said. There are already actual definitions of what is a war crime.

But sure, I'll bite.

A country attempting to completely eradicate a race of people? War crime.

Dropping an atomic bomb to put a swift end to a World War? Not a war crime. (because really, this is what we're still talking about)

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