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8/9/2019 WAR CRIMES Presentation

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CRIMES-ANTIL GANDHI


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DO YOU

CALL

THIS A

WAR?


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CRIMES


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BUTT IN GROIN: A rifle is cruelly jabbed in the young

man's groin


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WAR CRIMES-85%Dresden

destroyed


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Definition:

A cruel act done during a war which is illegal

under international law


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As Defined in the Geneva and Hague Conventions

Crimes AGAINST HUMANITY

Crimes Against Peace

Crimes against civilians

Crimes against POWs

Mass Rape as A tool of war

WHAT IS A WAR CRIME?


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Crimes Against Peace

Waging an aggressive

war

Germany starting WWII Japan attacking China

and the US without

provocation

Serbia instigating and

supporting the Bosnian

Serbs in Yugoslavia


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Crimes Against Civilians

Targeting Civilian

populations and centers

World War II theBattle of Britain

The Siege of Sarajevo

during the Bosnian war


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Crimes Against POWs

Torture of POWs

Starvation of POWs

Threats Against POWs Possible example: CIA

interrogations of

suspected terrorists

after 9/11


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Mass Rape as a Tool of

War

Added to the list of War

Crimes after wide useof this tactic in the

Bosnian War

Also widely used in

Rwanda and Darfur


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WHY ARE

THERE WAR

CRIMES?


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The first war crimes trials were held afterWWII in Nuremberg and in Tokyo

The atrocities seen in WWII were on a greater

scale than seen in previous wars The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials were

attempts by the Allies to hold German andJapanese leaders accountable for the policies

and tactics they had used during the warA major criticism of these trials was that it

was just victors justice


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WAR CRIMES-Ad HocTribunals

International CriminalTribunal for Yugoslavia(ICTY)

International Criminal

Tribunal for Rwanda(ICTR)

Ad hoctribunalsestablished by the UNSecurity Council to

prosecute war crimescommitted during theBosnian and Rwandanconflicts


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International Criminal Court

It would be a permanent

institution with powers to

prosecute war crimes in any

state that has signed thestatute governing its creation

It has not been established

yet

The US and China and many

other countries are

attempting to block the

establishment of this court

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