war crimes

War crimes are violations of the ethics of war and vary from one nation to another. Broadly conceived, however, war crimes are the wanton infliction of pain and suffering on non-combatants or prisoners of war.

Though war crimes may refer to the destruction of cities and townships, it is more broadly discussed in relation to the deliberate attempt to violate the human rights of non-combatants and prisoners of war.

Even within war there are rules of engagement, and there are circumstances that differentiate a just from an unjust war. War crimes are always a violation of human rights and always a violation of individual civil liberties.

 

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• The great WMD hoax- and why David Aaronovitch owes Tony Benn an apology

  
  Neil Clark — Authority: 423
  BLAIR LIED LIED AND LIED AGAIN: MANDARINS REVEAL THAT 10 DAYS BEFORE IRAQ INVASION PM KNEW SADDAM COULDNT USE WMDs. says todays Daily Mail headline. Whod have thought it eh? Tony Blair lying? Im sure that news comes as a huge surprise to readers of this blog. Reading the Mails headline reminded me of the events of ...
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• Thanksgiving: Celebrating A Massacre

  
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• 21st Century Nazis vs 21st Century Jews

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 641
  hat do 9-11 and the Holocaust have in common? I’ll tell you; after both atrocities, the victims did not use the lessons learned to go out into the world and change it for the better. Instead, they used their “victim-hood” status to run roughshod over lesser people and behave as worldwide thugs, invading ...
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• "We will have to kill them all": Effie Eitam, thug messiah

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 142
  By Jim Holstun and Irene Morrison* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Colonel Efraim (Fein) Eitam was only following orders when he told his troops to beat Ayyad Aqel in 1988. They beat him to death. Eitam, who since then has held several senior posts in the Israeli government, has recently toured the US as ...
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• ICC: Prosecutor Seeks OK on Kenya Inquiry

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 689
  (The Hague) - The request today by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to the courts judges to open a Kenya investigation is a decisive step toward justice for the countrys 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch said. The move comes after more than a year of inaction by Kenyas authorities on ...
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• Ali Abunimah: Campus BDS Conference Keynote Speaker [Video]

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 142
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• THE THUGS THAT RUN ISRAEL TODAY

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 641
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• Flashes;From Daily Life In The Gaza Strip

  
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• ARE HATE CRIME LAWS LEGALIZING TREASON?

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 125
  By: Jeff Gates OpinionMaker.com 20 Nov, 2009 Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it attacked a high profile California professor for his criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine. That ...
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• Sameh Brill – VIDEO: Looking at the Gaza War (if they let us): for “End the Siege on Gaza”

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
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• UN’s Congo operations judged a failure

  
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• Cruel, illegal, immoral: Human Rights Watch condemns UKs role in torture.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 132
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• World Briefing | Africa: Congo: Trial Begins for 2 Accused of Ordering Children to Destroy Village

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
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• Erased: Gaza Wiped Off the Map [Video]

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 119
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• British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 477
  Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2009. Photo by Andy Mettler/flickr Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning ...
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• Jews Say No To Dershowitz

  
  NLN — Authority: 124
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• UN: Secretary-General Should Evaluate Gaza Inquiries

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 689
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• Games ‘permit’ virtual war crimes

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 442
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• Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2008

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 158
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• Iraq war inquiry: Sir John Chilcot vows to get to the heart of decision to go to war

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
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