单词 | war crime |
释义 | > as lemmaswar crime war crime n. an offence against the rules of war, formerly excluding, but since the 1939–45 war including, any such act performed on the orders of a higher authority. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > other general types of crime political offence1771 street crime1853 crime passionnel1892 war crime1906 inside job1908 outside job1925 single-o1930 hate crime1960 1906 L. Oppenheim Internat. Law II. 264 Violations of rules regarding warfare are war crimes only when committed without an order of the belligerent government concerned. If members of the armed forces commit violations by order of their government, they are not war criminals and may not be punished by the enemy; the latter can, however, resort to reprisals. 1945 Daily Express 16 May 1/1 The United Nations War Crimes Commission announced last night: Hermann Goering's name was placed..on the first list of persons charged with war crimes. 1980 Oxf. Compan. Law 1288/2 After World War II, three classes of offences against international law came to be regarded as war crimes, crimes against peace, as by planning or waging a war of aggression, conventional war crimes, or violations of the accepted laws or customs of warfare and crimes against humanity, including extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts. < as lemmas |
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