What is "war crimes"

Usage examples of "war crimes".

If we know someone is guilty of war crimes, we must make a decision as to what to do with him.

In the Balkans, the military and the CIA had conducted secret operations to apprehend Persons Indicted for War Crimes (PIFWC).

And that feeling is that to start probing too energetically into the war crimes of the SS can do a young policeman's career no good.

Tell me, Jean-Luc, if these violent, psychotic terrorists were the only survivors of Earth, would you put them on trial, condemn and execute them for their war crimes?

He cut his homicide teeth in the army--investigating Jap war crimes.

To put this in perspective, by 1973 John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an antiwar demonstration, and married his first heiress.

Finally, pursuing the unilateral route would make it even more important to press for an international tribunal to investigate the Iraqi leadership for war crimes.

The government, the Justice Department, would like to change that system so that the United States is never again embarrassed by an inability to prosecute its servicemen for war crimes.

In fact, with the exception of yourself, General, no one here has had any experience with war crimes, and no one is quite as sure of himself as you are.

And sometimes, when I look out through my cell window at the gay and brassy youth of the infant Republic of Israel, I feel that I and my war crimes are as ancient as Solomon's old gray stones.